Colorado has been experiencing the efforts by local property tax groups to reduce the dependence for educational revenue by moving away from local property taxes to wider based taxation plans. Paralleling these efforts have been attempts by various groups, through the courts, to change the method of financing education to provide more equality of opportunity for all children. This report details the response of the Colorado State Legislature to these challenges and examines the effects of the laws it has passed to solve some of these problems. (Author/JF)