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Colorado schools stand to lose $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes

If Amendment 60 passes in November, students across Colorado will know it. They will soon be in more crowded classrooms and are likely to have fewer after-school and enrichment programs, course offerings and textbooks. Colorado schools will lose more than $1 billion if Amendment 60 passes.

Denver student walkouts target Arizona and Colorado immigration laws

Students across the metro area will walk out of class today beginning at 1:30 p.m. and march to the west steps of the state Capitol to protest Arizona’s SB 1070, the new state law giving police the authority to detain people based on “reasonable suspicion” they may be in the country illegally.

Nobody Wants Sarah

Sometime this year, Sarah Morgan will turn twenty-three.  She was born with fetal alcohol syndrome.  This means that her mother drank too much when...