Nearly 40% of Colorado public school students, more than 347,000 kids in preschool through high school, are opting to attend a different school than the one assigned to them by their home school district — a sign that Colorado families have a strong appetite for school choice decades after it was introduced in Colorado, school choice proponents say.

That’s a major finding in a report released Tuesday by conservative education organization Ready Colorado, which studied the migration of Colorado students to schools other than the neighborhood school their district designates for them.

The number of Colorado kids taking advantage of school choice across public schools — including district-managed schools and charter schools — has mostly been on a steady incline in recent years, jumping mo

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