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Poll says support for teachers’ unions collapses, union official contests findings
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Public regard for teachers’ unions took a nosedive in a survey that shows Coloradans strongly supporting parents having more say in their children’s education. The poll, commissioned by Ready Colorado, a pro-school choice that supported a slew of contenders that ran opposite union-backed school board candidates in the last round of school board…
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School reform advocacy group Ready Colorado taps Tyler Sandberg for executive role
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Veteran political consultant and Twitter warrior Tyler Sandberg has been named vice president of Ready Colorado, a conservative education reform organization he helped found. “The hiring of Tyler Sandberg is proof that Ready Colorado will be a force to reckon with from the ballot box to the state Capitol,” said Luke Ragland, Ready Colorado’s president.…
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Senate panel advances bill to strip school-choice language from foster-kids measure
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The Colorado state Senate’s Education Committee on Thursday gave a party-line OK to a bill removing school-choice language from a 2018 measure on foster children that was the subject of a court challenge. The action followed a Denver District Court ruling last month that declared a portion of the 2018 bill unconstitutional. On a 3-2…
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TRAIL MIX | Positive polls like Jason Crow’s are often shrouded in mystery
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Jason Crow’s campaign is touting the results of a poll showing the Democrat with a slim lead over five-term Republican Mike Coffman in Colorado’s battleground 6th Congressional District. The survey, commissioned by the Crow campaign, found the first-time candidate had the support of 47 percent of the district’s likely general election voters, edging out Coffman’s…
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COVER STORY | What we learned about the ‘U’ Factor
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Colorado’s unaffiliated voters participated for the first time in last month’s primary election at higher rates than nearly anyone had anticipated. The backers of the ballot measure that established the state’s semi-open primary are declaring the results a success, while strategists say the record-setting vote totals point to a highly engaged electorate heading into the…
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Crow sets 6th CD record, tops $1 million in quarterly fundraising
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Democrat Jason Crow plans to report raising more than $1 million for the just-completed second fundraising quarter of the year, more than any candidate in the battleground 6th Congressional District has raised for the same period in previous elections, including five-term Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman. Crow, who isn’t taking contributions from corporate political…
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Mike Coffman edges past challenger Jason Crow’s quarterly fundraising in 6th CD
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U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman plans to report raising $464,847 for the just-completed first fundraising quarter of the year – just $3,000 more than his leading Democratic challenger Jason Crow plans to report for the quarter, although the Republican incumbent has nearly $300,000 more cash on hand in the hotly contested race. Coffman will have raised…
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Craig Hulse goes from Uber to uber-education reform
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Ready Colorado, the conservative champion of school choice that is growing its profile on the state’s political scene, has tapped ride-sharing giant Uber to recruit a new vice president. The education advocacy group announced Monday it has hired Craig Hulse, “a widely respected policy and legislative expert” who most recently was Uber Technologies’ public affairs…