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Colorado kids to Encana: Don’t frack our schools

By | 06.04.12 | 9:47 am

ERIE — With black whiskers painted across her cheeks, 6-year-old Olivia Cusimano roared into the plastic megaphone as if hers were the voice of the blue knotted-up balloon tiger she clutched beneath her left arm.

Students, activists rally for immediate passage of DREAM Act

By | 09.03.10 | 8:25 am

DENVER – Undocumented Colorado youths and immigration reform activists, frustrated by the lack of action on comprehensive immigration reform in Congress, gathered across the river from Sen. Michael Bennet’s office in Confluence Park Thursday, urging Bennet and Sen. Mark Udall…

Schultheis proposal to count state’s illegal-immigrant students rejected

By | 03.29.10 | 2:22 pm

Senate Democrats Monday quashed a proposal that would have required Colorado schools to count undocumented immigrant students and report the number to the government.

The plan came as an amendment to House Bill 1171 and was proposed by conservative…

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