June 2026 – Newsletter

Engage Jeffco Schools – Putting the public back in public education

June Accomplishments/Announcements

Graduated Income Tax: Who benefits, and how much will it generate?

Engage Jeffco Schools hosted an educational series on June 10th about the Graduated Income Tax Ballot measure because of its ties to state education funding and closing the gap in our deeply underfunded schools. Speaker: Josh Mantell from the Bell Policy Center

View PDF presentation here.
View full video presentation here.

Engage Jeffco Endorses Initiative #195 – Graduated Income Tax in Colorado

Engage Jeffco endorses Initiative #195 for a statewide graduated income tax. If passed, Initiative #195 will replace Colorado’s flat income tax with a graduated income tax, cutting taxes on the 97% of Coloradans making less than $500,000 per year and increasing taxes on the 3% making more. The measure is expected to raise $2.0 billion per year for K-12 public education, health care, and early child care and education.

Read the measure and view the ballot title and income bracket table.

You can read more about the initiative at the Protect Colorado’s Future Coalition website.

Stories to follow

‘Slap in the face’: Evergreen community reacts to Polis veto

Nicole King spent the last week of school packing up her classroom. She said goodbye to colleagues she won’t see for months, people she described as bound together by something deeper than a job, a trauma bond, she called it, forged in a hallway on Sept. 10. Then she went home, turned on the television and learned that Gov. Jared Polis, whom she said had pledged to take care of the people of Colorado, including their children, had vetoed the bill the community had spent eight months fighting for.