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You wont find any candidates for governor, U.S. Senate or the General Assembly on this Novembers ballot, but Colorado voters will have a list of financial decisions to make, some

Four Colorado governors are endorsing Proposition 119, the ballot measure to raise recreational marijuana taxes to fund tutoring and other after-school educational opportunities.

Four Colorado governors are endorsing Proposition 119, the ballot measure to raise recreational marijuana taxes to fund tutoring and other after-school educational opportunities.

For an off-year election, Colorado voters still have a lot of questions to answer, mostly about how they want government to spend their tax dollars and some hefty policy decisions.

Proposition 119 would raise taxes on marijuana sales by 5% over the next three years. Nonpartisan analysts at the Capitol say the Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program – or LEAP for short – would net more than $100 million for the program during the next fiscal year.

Proposition 119 would raise taxes on marijuana sales by 5% over the next three years. Nonpartisan analysts at the Capitol say the Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program – or LEAP for short – would net more than $100 million for the program during the next fiscal year.

A classroom at Denver’s South High School, Tuesday, May 5, 2020. A bipartisan coalition hopes to ask the state’s residents to pass a ballot measure in the fall that they say would help Colorado’s children recover from pandemic-related learning loss and close persistent decades-long academic learning gaps. If passed, supporters say Colorado would be the first state in the country to build a long-term plan to prevent learning gaps from forming in the first place through after-school and su...

A group of education advocates are working to put a measure on this year’s ballot designed to enhance out-of-school learning opportunities to help youth do better in school. The idea, which would be funded by a 5% increase in the state’s taxes on recreational marijuana, would provide free funding for such things as tutors, special technical training or learning English or some other foreign language. The measure would create the Colorado Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Progr...