property tax
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Now, that’s what you call sweat equity
While Republicans were busy this week defending their new tax plan and the impact it will have on the middle class, Pueblo County is offering seniors and the disabled a deal in paying off their property tax. The county is promoting a program that allows those over 60 years old or who are disabled to…
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Noonan: Bill envisions high quality education for Colorado … But where’s the money?
A new bipartisan bill, Achieving a Vision for Education in Colorado, HB17-1287, sets up an advisory board to create a strategic plan for public education, preschool through college, for implementation up to 2030. The bill recognizes that the 21st century world is “fiercely competitive” and that a “world class highly effective twenty-first-century learning system is the…
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Watson: Creating a level playing field in Colorado education
When it comes to creatively advancing the quality of education in Colorado, we need to consider ways of making a level playing field for children to thrive. Colorado has a network of strongly performing charter schools when it comes to both academic rigor and healthy student culture. Many of them have won impressive awards for…