Lobato 8/5: Key expert weighs in
Bruce Baker, a national school finance expert, testified Friday that Colorado’s school finance system is especially regressive for districts with high numbers of poor children and English language learners because it doesn’t compensate for the higher costs of teaching such students.
Baker testified as an expert witness for the plaintiffs in the Lobato v. State school funding lawsuit, which wrapped up its first week Friday.
He’s one of the national witnesses being used by the plaintiffs to buttress their claim that the state’s school
