BOARD STATEMENT
The Littleton Public Schools Board of Education strives to ensure that 100 percent of LPS students graduate prepared for meaningful post-secondary opportunities. These efforts require resources, which leads to legislative priorities seeking to protect and improve school funding.
FUNDING
School funding should be a consistent and predictable model with growth factors that remain in place for multiple years.
AVERAGING
Maintain student count averaging, which allows districts to adjust to decreases in enrollment, staffing, and offerings so that students are not drastically and negatively impacted by a funding cliff.
LPS would lose
$5.7 million
annually without averaging.
PROGRAMMING
Oppose any state or federal legislation with underfunded or unfunded mandates or mandates that negatively impact district operations. For example, programs such as Healthy School Meals for All and Universal Preschool provide important services to families. They also take money from all other areas of the district because the state does not fully fund them.
Special education funding is critical to students' success. LPS currently spends millions from the general fund annually to support special education costs because state and federal funding only pays approximately 25% of the costs.
LOCAL CONTROL
Honor Constitutionally-mandated local control of Boards of Education.
