House passes immigrant-youth DREAM Act; Senate to vote Thursday
Wednesday night the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2010, bipartisan legislation that lawmakers...
Bennet calls on Senate to pass DREAM Act, says it’s a ‘matter of conscience’
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet called on his colleagues to pass the DREAM Act as the Senate assembled for voting Wednesday afternoon. Bennet argued...
Anti-bullying task force would fit with state’s lean mean approach to school safety
A group of Colorado rights and education organizations is calling on Governor-elect John Hickenlooper and state lawmakers to establish a task force on school bullying and harassment in Colorado. The organizations cite the alarming rash of recent high-profile incidents around the country where harassment led gay high school and university students to commit suicide.
CU immigrant tuition equity movement benefits from ‘teach-in’
BOULDER - Roughly 100 University of Colorado-Boulder students working to secure tuition equity for the state's undocumented teens got a boost Wednesday from professors...
Would-be Denver mayor Romer talks immigration, education, budget
In his bid to become the next mayor of Denver, State senator Chris Romer is selling his 25 years experience as a banker who specialized in municipal finance issues. He says Denver has achieved great things in lean times in the past and he would look to do the same now, zeroing in on keeping the FasTracks light rail project on track.
As window closes on DREAM Act, Colo. Democratic Party Chair rallies support
Although the DREAM Act began its life a decade ago as a Republican proposal and has enjoyed broad bipartisan support, Republicans and key conservative...
Colorado Succeeds school reform group leans on shoddy Heritage Foundation research
Colorado University professor of education policy and Education News Colorado contributor Kevin Welner Tuesday examined a report put out last month by Colorado Succeeds,...
Ritter praised by Washington Post for hunger efforts
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter gets a call-out in this Sunday's (Nov. 21) Washington Post -- from Academy-award winning actor Jeff Bridges no less.
"As we...
Lunchtime links: Catholic students not OK with Church gay bashing
In Minnesota, some smart Catholic school kids at Benilde-St. Margaret's took issue with the anti-gay propaganda sent out by their archdiocese. They picked the...
Calif. Supreme Court rules for illegal immigrants in tuition case
The California Supreme Court Monday unanimously upheld a state law granting in-state tuition rates to undocumented residents who attended high school for at least...