Nor does it change the fact that Colorado has not been funding kindergarten to 12th grade education at the level needed to meet the education standards the state has set up.
In fact, last December a Denver district judged issued a ruling that called the current system unconscionable and said it does not have enough money to help students meet standards-based education goals at any level -- rural, suburban or urban.
"There is not one school district that is sufficiently funded. This is an obvious hallmark of an irrational system," Judge Sheila Rappaport said last December.
Education funding has been a perennial problem in Colorado.
The Future School Finance Act, passed by the state Legislature this year, could help remedy that. But changes will require voters to pass a $1.1 billion tax increase, which may be put to them in November's election.
Increasing state taxes by more than $1 billion sounds daunting, and it may be hard to persuade voters to open their wallets that widely.
The education community and lawmakers need to do all they can to educate Coloradans about what they would get for such a huge investment in education, and how educators will be held accountable for ensuring that students across the state get a high-quality education that prepares them for college or work after they graduate from high school.
Ideally, they would even find a way to achieve education goals with a lesser infusion of new tax dollars so that voters are not put off by a request in the billions.
It's time for the state to put together a rational education system, and to fund it.