healthy kids colorado survey
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Low participation on 2021 Healthy Kids Colorado Survey fails to yield data for El Paso County
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For the second time, not enough El Paso County secondary students took a voluntary, confidential survey that asks about eating habits, substance use, sexual activity, suicidal inclinations, bullying and other personal health questions, to gather a large enough sample to produce a statistical data set. While that leaves El Paso County Public Health somewhat “blindsided,”…
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Colorado budget proposal cuts youth surveys on drugs, sex
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Colorado schoolchildren may not be asked about their drug use and sex habits in anonymous surveys anymore, under a bipartisan budget proposal moving through the Legislature. The budget draft introduced Monday cuts about $745,000 to end the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey. The youth-risk surveys are sent every other year to randomly selected middle and high…
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Coffman on more veterans’ woes, time changes of death, the big budget shortfall and more
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March 20, 2017 Good morning and Happy Monday. Whether we like it or not, those Mondays keep on a comin’. Thank you sir, may I have another! Read on for this week’s rundown of intel straight from Colorado’s political pipeline … COLORADO KUMBAYA: The Neil Gorsuch Support Ticker (confirmation hearings begin this week): Steve Farber of…
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With much grumbling, Senate votes overwhelmingly for state budget
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Democrats and Republicans in the Senate want you to know they don’t love this year’s $27 billion budget, but they voted for it in a landslide. “The bottom line is, I’m going to vote yes on this budget because of the great work of the Joint Budget Committee members (who drafted it). I’m proud of…
