School finance, ASSET bills move

Next year’s school funding bill passed a committee easily after a brief diversion, and the ASSET bill passed the Senate in a surprising way.

Next year’s school funding bill passed a committee easily after a brief diversion, and the ASSET bill passed the Senate in a surprising way.

A key higher education bill passes its first committee, and the 2012-13 school finance bill is introduced.

In a year when there’s good budget news for education, Rep. Tom Massey wants to make sure most of the money gets to classrooms.

Updated – The legislature’s budget committee has finished the proposed 2012-13 state budget, ending a week that brought good news for education.

Improved state revenue forecasts could mean smaller-than-planned education cuts in 2012-13, and the JBC finally takes action on new testing costs.

It was not a good afternoon in the Joint Budget Committee for the Colorado Department of Education.

Department of Education leaders will face tough questions on testing costs and more when they meet with the Joint Budget Committee later this month.

Colorado’s school funding system could hit a constitutional dead end in less than five years, the Joint Budget Committee has been told.