Author: Vic Vela

In a laborious Capitol battle over student testing between the “good enoughs” and the “not enoughs,” the former prevailed. After digging through the weeds for months on the biggest education issue of this year’s legislative session, lawmakers finally emerged with compromise legislation that will reduce the number of assessments that students are required to take…

After several failures in recent years, an effort to create a felony drunken-driving charge in Colorado is finally on its way to becoming law. But House Bill 1043 comes with a price tag that will only increase in the coming years, which could impact future legislative priorities, warns a key budget lawmaker. The bill would…