Tag: Cindy Stevenson

  HOLLY Lindsey is the voter all those TV ads are aimed at. She has lived nearly all her life in Jefferson County. She’s middle-class, churchgoing,...

DENVER -- It wasn't a gun bill, but it sparked the kind of heated exchange that characterizes gun-bill debates in Colorado.

It was just one more skirmish in the war over education policy being waged in the state, where clashes now seem to come at a regular clip.

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan may be talking big about promoting innovation with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) education dollars, but Colorado schools won't see any sweeping developments this fall. That doesn't mean, however, that the stimulus program won't be making an impact. Federal Recovery funds are being used to prop up current programs and to lay the groundwork for more ambitious future change.