school funding
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Colorado launches $2.5M in grants for youth apprenticeships
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Colorado is offering $2.5 million in grants to expand high school apprenticeship programs aimed at preparing youth to enter the workforce. Colorado has over 300 active apprenticeship programs with more than 6,000 participants, according to state estimates. But as of March, only 0.02% of the apprentices are under the age of 18. The grant-funded apprenticeships will provide…
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Polis signs collective bargaining, school funding, dozens of other bills
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Gov. Jared Polis signed dozens of bills into law this week, including the watered-down collective bargaining legislation and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for public schools. Signed on Friday, Senate Bill 230 extends collective bargaining rights to approximately 36,000 county employees throughout the state. The bill provides the rights in most counties with…
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NOONAN | Guv-elect thumbs nose at his party’s neighborhood school advocates
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Paula Noonan Mark Twain said, “I am dead to adverbs, they cannot excite me.” Gov.-elect Jared Polis didn’t get that message. He named his transition team website: “Boldly Forward.” Boldly forward heads badly backward is more accurate. Individuals on Polis’s transition team for education policy highlight the governor-elect’s in-your-face rejection of what almost all parents in…
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FEEDBACK | Readers dissect a bumper crop of ballot issues
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‘All children have special needs’ As the former superintendent of two Colorado school districts, Boulder and Jeffco, I suppose it is not surprising that I am a supporter of Amendment 73, which supports our school districts in meeting the mission to educate all of our children. Yes, of course, I am supporting the amendment, however,…
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FEEDBACK | A week worth celebrating; a tax hike worth torpedoing
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Amendment 73: Massive tax increase is missing accountability As the former chair of the House Education Committee, I was always a champion for teachers and students. As co-chair of a Legislative Study Committee which included outside research for financing our schools, I fought to be sure our schools received adequate resources. Also as a private…
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PRO | Colorado’s educators support Amendment 73. Here’s why
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There is only one job that is better than being an educator – being the new president of the Colorado Education Association, representing 35,000 educators in Colorado. As the new CEA president, this is an exciting time to be taking the helm with Amendment 73, pro-public education candidates at every level and an aggressive legislative…
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Amendment 73 = crippling tax hikes + no accountability
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Any good business person knows that having a quality education system is key to growing a healthy state economy. We need good schools to produce a competent workforce and attract workers and their families as well as new businesses. Unfortunately, the latest effort to improve our schools through a $1.6 billion tax hike – the…
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Aaron Harber hears costs, benefits of Amendment 73 for schools
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“The Aaron Harber Show” takes Colorado to the classroom this Sunday, exploring the needs and costs behind a ballot question on funding this November. Both sides will make their pitches on Amendment 73, which would raise income taxes on higher income Coloradans while also raising the corporate rate. That would put $1.6 billion a year…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Santa Fe fiesta to drop conquistador reenactment
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New Mexico Reenactment of conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe will end SANTA FE – An annual reenactment of a 17th-century Spanish conquistador reclaiming Santa Fe from Native Americans after an uprising will end amid protests that it whitewashed a dark period in New Mexico history. Organizers of the annual Fiesta de Santa Fe said they would…
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FEEDBACK | Three hot buttons: education, abortion and global warming
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Cary Kennedy is the real leader on education Having seen Jared Polis’s misleading campaign ad attacking Cary Kennedy for the umpteenth time, I am sharing some direct insight about his claim that he “led” the effort to increase funding for every school in Colorado – and from where the actual leadership came. I was the…
