The closure of schools has been a moral travesty. However, not all schools and school leaders have kowtowed to school employee union pressure and failed to properly serve our kids for most of the last year. In Colorado, there are some standout leaders who deserve recognition for doing what’s right, for doing what our kids need by offering safe, in-person learning.
One such leader is Mike Miles, who runs a network of high-quality public charter schools in Aurora and Colorado Springs that managed to stay open all last fall and even offer in-person learning last summer, while many schools in Colorado kept their doors closed.
Five years ago, Colorado voters soundly defeated a government-run health-care plan, Amendment 69, voting NO by a margin of four to one. Reps. Dylan Roberts of Avon, Iman Jodeh of Aurora, and Sen. Kerry Donovan of Vail have decided they know better than the voters, so they’ve introduced House Bill 21-1232, the “public option” bill.
It could impact some of the biggest moments in your life. Having a baby, dealing with a cancer diagnosis, taking your little one for a check-up. This bill cuts payments to your pediatrician, your oncologist, your family care doc, which means they have to cut services or pass the cost on to you.
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Snow blanketed the University of Colorado Boulder campus on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021.
The University of Colorado Board of Regents voted Thursday to raise tuition for undergraduate students by 3 percent, but will use federal relief funds to buy down that increase and effectively keep prices the same for one year.
The vote passed 6-2. Regent Chair Glen Gallegos was not in attendance. University officials proposed the increase in February, citing a need to make up for a budget shortfall of $218 million.
The CU System will use about $22 million of federal coronavirus relief funds to provide a one-time rate increase buy-down to students.
Students walk past the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs mountain lion sculpture Friday, April 9, 2021, next to the El Pomar Center on the Colorado Springs campus. The sculpture was created by artist Ernest Geolfos and is dedicated to the memory of Melitta Bergen, a refugee from Estonia who came to Colorado after World War II in 1949. (The Gazette, Christian Murdock)
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