education funding
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University of Wyoming faculty getting nine-month contracts
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The University of Wyoming is opting for more nine-month appointments for faculty to save money instead of paying them for a full year, hoping some of them will continue to do research during the summer. School officials say department heads are usually given 12-month appointments to allow for summer administrative duties. Most faculty members are now on…
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Caldara: Independence Institute works to build ‘Freedom Embassy’
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More than three decades after its founding, the Independence Institute has grown from a free-market think tank into what Jon Caldara, its president of 17 years, calls Colorado’s “Freedom Embassy,” bringing together the state’s disparate right-leaning organizations – including those representing wings of the movement that aren’t natural allies – into a place where he…
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Backers kill ballot measure to lift TABOR revenue caps
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Supporters of a state ballot measure to set a 10-year time-out on TABOR revenue restrictions called it quits Tuesday, blaming what could be a crowded fall ballot, the high cost of getting across a complicated argument to voters and an “uncertain political climate.” “In November, Colorado voters are going to be asked to decide on up…
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Cadman: Session much more successful than advertised
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It’s that time of year again – the legislative interim – when our media friends and editorial writers draw sweeping but invariably distorted conclusions about “what the session really meant.” These are the same people who spent months largely ignoring the bipartisan successes while hyping partisan flaps, proclaiming that rancorous “partisanship” blocked passage of all…
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DelGrosso: Theme of session is ‘missed opportunities’
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From the start of the session, House Republicans identified increasing funding for education and transportation and addressing Colorado’s affordable housing shortage as our top priorities. Unfortunately, our Democrat colleagues did not share our same priorities and instead focused on passing a partisan agenda that penalized, over-regulated, even publicly shamed Colorado’s job creators. Democrats rejected our…
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Noonan: Top-down decision-making in education won’t win over voters
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Half way into a letter called “Lessons on Education,” Sue Desmond-Hellman, CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, admits that the foundation “underestimated the level of resources and support required for our public education systems to be well-equipped to implement the <Common Core> standards.” This mild acknowledgment doesn’t begin to address the chaos that…
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Senate debates state budget: Opens with battle over Clean Power Plan
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Neville, Woods team up to target contraception, immunization, bike path spending (5:30 p.m.) Sens. Tim Neville, R-Littleton, and Laura Woods, R-Arvada, are staunch social conservatives. Neville is running in a crowded Republican primary for the U.S. Senate. Woods holds one of the key swing seats that will determine which party controls the Senate in the…
