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By Thomas Mitchell WESTWORD We’re six weeks into Colorado’s 2019 legislative session, and pot proposals have been creating plenty of buzz. While bills to provide medical marijuana patients with firearm rights and alter state DUI laws regarding marijuana use are as good as dead, measures that would expand medical marijuana access and pot-industry financing are still alive and kicking. With a
By Christopher Osher THE COLORADO SUN Top legislators this week said they feared the teacher strike in Denver was a symptom of chronic underfunding for Colorado public schools and expressed concern that teachers in other districts will get restless if the state doesn’t tackle school financing. They pointed out that the state put a budget-balancing
By Sandra Fish CHALKBEAT The school day doesn’t end with academic classes at Malley Drive Elementary in Northglenn. After-school activities include sports, art, working with clay, writing and more. Teachers try to visit families at home at least once a year, to learn how they can support their children in the classrooms. And parents are
By Erika Alvero THE JOURNAL Nyibol Bior, an overworked Longmont teacher, applied last April to the rural Dolores School District hoping for a fresh start. But she balked when a job offer as a special education teacher for the district meant a pay cut and moving to a small town where Bior, a South Sudanese
By Bill Christopher THE WESTMINSTER WINDOW It hasn’t been all sweetness and light for Governor Jared Polis in the first 30 days of his reign. So, will the “honeymoon” period be short or did he simply have a semi-rough time out of the starting blocks? Time will tell, but let’s review what his first month
By Sandra Fish COLORADO SUN Colorado is taking a step toward more disclosure of campaign advertising. The state Senate is expected to approve legislation Tuesday that would mandate more disclosure from political committees that send mailers or air commercials in an election year. Senate Bill 68 requires disclosure of how much is spent on communication that mentions
By Charles Ashby THE DAILY SENTINEL State lawmakers are still working on new ways to get more teachers into Colorado classrooms, and this week the Colorado Senate is expected to take up measures that could help do that. One bill, SB3, would expand an existing loan forgiveness program for hard-to-fill teaching positions, one designed to
By Ryan Maye THE DURANGO HERALD On their third week in the Capitol, Colorado lawmakers began the difficult task of tackling high health care costs in the state, but they also revisited bills killed last year and made moves to assist rural educators. Here’s a look back at some of the events of the week:
By Melanie Asmar COLORADO INDEPENDENT As Colorado’s governor weighs whether to intervene to head off a teacher strike in the state’s largest school district, Denver teachers packed a school board meeting Thursday night to press their demand for higher pay. They marched on the sidewalk in front of district headquarters, chanted in the lobby, and
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