{"id":7518,"date":"2018-04-27T02:29:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=f1c6554b0fc89abed64d1a11e400ebb6"},"modified":"2018-04-27T02:29:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T06:29:26","slug":"money-from-pot-taxes-doesnt-fix-colorado-teachers-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/27\/money-from-pot-taxes-doesnt-fix-colorado-teachers-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Money from pot taxes doesn\u2019t fix Colorado teachers\u2019 problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER &#8212; Colorado teachers are protesting to call for higher salaries and increased funding for schools, prompting questions about why the state&#8217;s booming legal marijuana sales have not fixed the problems.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 voter-approved constitutional amendment permitting marijuana sales to adults got a boost from a commitment to send millions of dollars to Colorado schools.<\/p>\n<p>But those taxes are a small share of the multibillion-dollar education budget.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, for example, marijuana taxes sent to the Colorado Department of Education totalled $90.3 million, while the state budget included a total of $5.6 billion for K-12 education.<\/p>\n<p>The constitutional amendment required that the first $40 million in taxes on wholesale marijuana go into a fund for school construction or maintenance. But schools say they need nearly $18 billion for capital costs through 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DENVER &mdash; Colorado teachers are protesting to call for higher salaries and increased funding for schools, prompting questions about why the state&rsquo;s booming legal marijuana sales have not fixed the problems. The 2012 voter-approved constitutional amendment permitting marijuana sales to adults got a boost from a commitment to send millions of dollars to Colorado schools. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7519,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7518\/revisions\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}