The Joint Budget Committee Tuesday accepted a staff recommendation to cut the School Leadership Academy and the Colorado Counselor Corps programs in the Colorado Department of Education.
Despite dire budget times for higher education in Colorado, building is booming.
Should the Colorado Commission on Higher Education have a say in state college tuition increases before or after they’re imposed on students?
The Joint Budget Committee was told Wednesday it should set a target of $509 million for the amount to be trimmed from what schools would have expected to receive in 2010-11.
The revised school-funding lawsuit argues that the state constitutional requirement for “a thorough and uniform system” of schools takes precedence over TABOR and other “procedural” amendments.
Gov. Bill Ritter publicly weighed in on the growing discussion over college tuition Thursday, giving an expanded view on where he stands on the question of letting college boards set their own tuition rates.
It was kind of a topsy-turvy day in the House and Senate education committees.
Those controversial tax exemption bills are now law, and another private school tax- credit bill was killed at the Statehouse Wednesday.
Allowing state colleges to set their own tuition rates, long considered off the table for the 2010 legislative session, is gaining momentum as a partial fix to higher education’s immediate financial woes.
The revised 2010-11 budget plan announced by Gov. Bill Ritter includes no additional cuts to K-12 support or to higher education.
