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A group of Colorado lawmakers spent Monday afternoon plugging numbers into a proposed new school finance formula, squinting at a projection of a computer...
First Person is an occasional Chalkbeat series featuring personal essays by educators, students, parents, and others trying to improve public education.
“We’re really lucky here....
Colorado’s General Assembly is just about at the halfway mark, but most major education legislation is still under consideration.
And the biggest issue – how...
After millions of dollars and what sure felt like millions of mailers and door-knocks, Coloradans have their candidates for governor: Democrat Jared Polis and...
Gov. John Hickenlooper delivered his final State of the State address on Thursday, laying out his priorities for the homestretch of his eight-year tenure...
Colorado lawmakers started the day Wednesday with pledges of bipartisanship and odes to the Colorado way.
Then Republicans in the state Senate promptly sent a...
As Colorado lawmakers return to the Capitol on Wednesday to begin crafting education policy and setting spending priorities, they face significant budget challenges, an...