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.
A bill designed to give school districts better notice about students returning to school from treatment or juvenile detention ran into trouble Monday in committee and was laid over for fine-tuning.
Bills creating state requirements for arts education and immunization notification have received final House approval.
The Senate Wednesday gave final approval to a pair of bills that would allow two colleges to expand their degree offerings.
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.
Colorado State University students took a step toward two voting seats on the system’s board of governors Tuesday with a preliminary House vote.
A lawsuit seeking to overturn the Public Employees Retirement Association solvency plan was filed against the state Friday, just three days after the bill was signed.
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.
A proposal that would have banned some people with felony convictions from non-teaching jobs at schools was killed Monday by the House Judiciary Committee.
