If passed, the amendment would have added a provision to the state's Constitution guaranteeing the right to school choice.

[1] Currently, K-12 students in Colorado have the options of attending public, charter, private, online, or neighborhood schools as well as homeschooling.

Both petitioning for the measure and the campaign in favor were led by the conservative group Advance Colorado Action.

[4] Colorado's official voter guide also offers the arguments for the measure that it should be a parent's right to choose whatever school they see fit for their child, whether public or private, and that Amendment 80 would protect parents and children by putting that right into the Colorado Constitution.

The state's official voter guide offered the arguments against the amendment that Colorado already offers free public education, the language of the amendment is unclear, and it would lead to public funds being put into private schools.