Clashing views aired on student counts
Worries and hopes about changing the way student enrollment is counted were laid bare Wednesday at a meeting of panel that’s studying the issue.
Consultant Justin Silverstein did a lot of listening during the Dec. 15 meeting of the Average Daily Membership Advisory Committee.
The debate among members of the Average Daily Membership Advisory Committee spotlighted the divide between school administrators and school reformers on the issue and also highlighted the political difficulty of making any change in student counting during a time of declining state financial support for schools.
Colorado’s current enrollment counting system basically involves adding up the students who are in school on
