Colorado’s two statewide education boards Tuesday formally adopted a description of postsecondary and workforce readiness, a key requirement of 2008’s Colorado Achievement Plan for Kids education reform program.
Some future legislative study committee may look back and conclude for the record that 2009 was the year that Amendment 23 lost its mojo.
Colorado ranks 47th in the nation in total state spending per $1,000 dollars of personal income, and 45th in state spending per capita, according to a study released Thursday by the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute.
Denver District Judge Catherine Lemon Tuesday issued a preliminary injunction barring enforcement of the 2008 constitutional amendment that severely restricts political campaign contributions. The amendment was challenged in court by a broad coalition of civic leaders and labor groups, including teachers’ unions.
The headline from the June state revenue forecasts is bad enough – Colorado state government faces a cumulative general fund revenue shortfall of $838 million through the middle of 2012, meaning no respite from budget cutting and fund shifting. But, while higher education actually may be somewhat shielded from further cuts, the fine print of the forecasts contains some disheartening news for K-12 schools.
The “golden ticket” of the Race to the Top, the competitive portion of the federal stimulus law that’s focused on education reform, seems to be receding further into the future.
The present financial crisis in higher education may be an opportunity for meaningful reform, Gov. Bill Ritter told an audience of educators and administrators Thursday.
What does a Colorado kid need to know to successfully move from high school to college, other training or the workforce? Teams of Colorado educators and others think they’ve managed to answer that question.
The calendar for the next few months already is packed with education finance studies, but it looks like one more is going to be added to the list, this one focused on higher education.
The 2009 legislative interim committee on school finance Thursday got more than enough advice from two-dozen witnesses who made suggestions about what the 10-member panel should study.
