This source cluster captures Ready Colorado's August 2025 report, Open Doors, Open Districts II: Charting the Rise of Public School Choice in Colorado, and its landing page. It directly replaces the prior timeline's dependence on Colorado Sun reporting for Ready Colorado's statewide open-enrollment data claims, while preserving the report's advocacy-source limits.
39.4% of Colorado PK-12 public-school students in 2024-25, more than 347,000 students, were enrolled in a school other than their zoned neighborhood school.26.1%, approximately 230,000 students, choosing a different district-run or charter school within their resident district, and about 13.4%, approximately 118,000 students, enrolling across district lines.public-school privatization frame applies to every open-enrollment, charter, online, or innovation-school pathway listed.2025-08-26: Ready Colorado publishes Open Doors, Open Districts II, reporting that 39.4% of Colorado PK-12 public-school students in 2024-25 attended a school other than their zoned neighborhood school.2025-08-26: The report identifies persistent transportation and information-access barriers and recommends state and district-level policy changes to make public school choice easier to exercise.This is direct for Ready Colorado's public report and policy framing. It is not direct for the underlying CDE data extraction, district intent, district decision-making, or money / governance flows.
This summary supports Colorado public-school privatization and alternative-governance timeline and refreshes the source basis for the Ready Colorado / school-choice portion of Colorado Sun charter and school-choice policy source cluster, 2024-2025.