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Feb 5, 2010

Colorado and California: Are they ungovernable?

Last year, Colorado and the rest of the nation watched the fiscal situation in California as if it were a slow-motion train wreck. The Bell, for one, pointed out that Colorado, with its many budget formulas and restrictions, is distressingly similar to California on budget matters.

That exact topic will be the subject of a forum, Ungovernable States: Prospects for Constitutional Reform in California and Colorado, sponsored by the University of Colorado's School of Public Affairs.

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Feb 3, 2010

Flagship universities lag in serving low-income students

According to a recent report, our nation's flagship public universities are not doing enough to serve academically qualified low-income and minority students. In Opportunity Adrift: Our Flagship Universities Are Straying From Their Public Mission, the Education Trust examines the patterns of access and success for minority and low-income students in public research institutions across the United States.

On access, the analysis finds that:

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Jan 28, 2010

Improving college access – and student success

A series of five briefs by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) examines a broad range of policies that states can implement to improve college access and enhance success for low-income, minority and first-generation students.

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Jan 22, 2010

Report uses broad perspective to analyze achievement gap

In a recently released report, The Education Trust highlights the drawbacks of using only one perspective in evaluating achievement gaps in our public schools. Instead, the trust shows that using four perspectives provides a more comprehensive and accurate understanding of equity in education:

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Jan 5, 2010

Complaint filed over anti-government ballot measures

Protect Colorado's Communities, the issue committee fighting three anti-government measures proposed for the 2010 ballot, has filed a complaint with the Secretary of State over the proposals, saying that proponents violated the law in preparing and circulating petitions and failing to report donors behind the effort.

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