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Education

CU students demand in-state tuition for undocumented Colorado residents

BOULDER – We’ve heard it a million times before, students these days just don’t care. But that’s a misconception according to 80 University of...

Bennet pleads case at CU Boulder: ‘If you vote, we win’

BOULDER -- Swinging through University Memorial Center on the CU-Boulder campus minutes ago, U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet pleaded soft and loud for students here...

AZ immigrant rights activists hold forums on CU campuses

Immigrant rights activists across the country recall the day, April 23, 2010, with a cold clarity. It was the day Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer...

Frazier’s charter school actively applied for stimulus funding

Congressman Ed Perlmutter today delivered to the press proof that a school represented by his Republican challenger Ryan Frazier not only received stimulus money,...

Bennet campaign storms Colorado Springs

If you were a Democrat trying to win statewide office in Colorado, you might be tempted to ignore El Paso County altogether, or you...

Colorado abstinence program with ties to anti-gay groups, Ugandan pastor, receives millions in federal...

Colorado-based abstinence education group WAIT Training has received more than $8.3 million in federal funding since 2005, despite having several brushes with political controversy, including being cited in a Congressional report for misrepresenting the spread of HIV, having ties with a controversial leader of Uganda’s virulent anti-gay movement, and having given tens of thousands of its grant money to a right-wing anti-gay group.

Colorado schools stand to lose $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes

If Amendment 60 passes in November, students across Colorado will know it. They will soon be in more crowded classrooms and are likely to have fewer after-school and enrichment programs, course offerings and textbooks. Colorado schools will lose more than $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes.

Frazier calls stimulus a failure, but his school, district he seeks to represent have...

Ryan Frazier, the Republican nominee for the 7th CD seat now held by Democrat Ed Perlmutter, has called the stimulus bill a failure, but his charter school, the city of Aurora and 7th CD have reaped rewards of Recovery Act.

Polis rallies youth vote, casts ballot on first day of early voting

BOULDER – Congressman Jared Polis Monday tried to rally students at the University of Colorado at Boulder, urging them to show the same enthusiasm...

Gardner backer Armey would end federal student loan programs in Colorado

Influential and controversial national conservative advocacy group FreedomWorks started the Tea Party movement last year and is endorsing conservative candidates across the country this...
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