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Colorado issue committees raise nearly $30 million to influence vote on ballot measures
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The handful of groups seeking your vote on statewide ballot measures in November are expected to raise more than $30 million by mid-October. As of Sept. 30, ten issue committees have raised a total of $29.3 million, with a decidedly-lopsided advantage for those who back three liquor-related ballot measures and another supporting the measure to…
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Democrat Jason Crow wins teachers-union endorsement in 6th CD race
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Jason Crow, an attorney and one of two Democrats running in a primary for the 6th Congressional District seat held by Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, picked up an endorsement from Colorado’s largest teachers union Thursday, his campaign announced. The Colorado Education Association and its national parent, the National Education Association, threw their support behind…
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Election Day was a game changer for key Colorado school districts
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This turned out to be the year the teachers unions staged a comeback. Long on the defensive and losing members in Colorado and across the country amid expanding school choice and a rapidly shifting public education landscape, the unions dug in their heels. They opened their coffers and pushed back hard in Tuesday’s election against…
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Cary Kennedy releases education plan but few details on paying for it
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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cary Kennedy rolled out her education plan for Colorado Thursday. The plan, her campaign says, will make sure that by the time a Colorado kid turns 19 – “regardless of where they live and how much their family makes” – is prepared for higher education. “As governor I will make education our…
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Trump unites but education divides would-be Democratic governors, including in Colorado
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Coming to a Democratic primary near you: a clash over education issues. In several big states, governors who have supported charter schools are on their way out or facing a re-election fight in 2018. And while the party is united in its distaste for President Donald Trump, candidates vying for state leadership from California to…
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Are teachers unions facing a grim future? Colorado’s membership is declining
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Following an apparent trend nationwide, the Colorado Education Association’s membership declined again last year compared with the year before and dropped even more markedly since five years earlier. According to numbers obtained by longtime union watchdog and critic Mike Antonucci – whose Education Intelligence Service is a go-to source for union data across the country…
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4-4 no more: Supreme Court, with Colorado’s Gorsuch, will hear church-state case
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Justice Neil Gorsuch’s first week on the Supreme Court bench features an important case about the separation of church and state that has its roots on a Midwestern church playground. The outcome could make it easier to use state money to pay for private, religious schooling in many states. The justices on Wednesday will hear…
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Colorado AFL-CIO won’t endorse Bennet in U.S. Senate race
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The state’s largest coalition of labor unions voted on Saturday to sit out Colorado’s U.S. Senate race rather than endorse U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet because of the Democrat’s position on a controversial international trade agreement. “The Trans-Pacific Partnership weighed heavily on our affiliates’ decision to remain neutral in the U.S. Senate race,” said Sam Gilchrist, executive…
