According to a recent BrightBytes' report, more than 90 percent of purchased apps are not used "intensively" (10-plus hours between assessments).

Among the issues the Education Committee plans to examine: the carrying out of the Every Student Succeeds Act and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act; recommendations from the Federal Commission on School Safety in response to the Parkland mass school shooting; and the department's role in the rebuilding of schools in Puerto Rico, in the Virgin Islands and in other areas.

A bill making its way through the Colorado legislature would allocate more marijuana tax revenues for school construction projects. Under the current law, $40 million or 90 percent of total excise tax revenues goes toward the public school capital construction assistance fund. The new bill would enable 100 percent to be credited to the account.

Educators have tried to strengthen career pipelines by building "work cultures" in schools that expose students to new possibilities and on-the-job experiences. A 2018 study of children who grow up to file patents found that STEM programming by itself was not effective. Apart from being born into affluent families, the biggest influence on whether girls became inventors was whether they lived close to women who invent.