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Tag: Tax Increase
Seeking to deter a ‘morbid fascination,’ Jeffco may rebuild Columbine High...
Twenty years after the Columbine shooting, Jefferson County Public Schools is considering rebuilding the high school in a nearby location with the hope that...
Here’s how some districts would spend their share of a $1.6...
If Colorado voters this November approve a $1.6 billion tax increase to benefit schools, several metro-area districts are pledging to spend part of their...
With school finance act, CO lawmakers try to pass off teacher...
A school finance act that puts more money into K-12 education than Colorado has spent at any point since the Great Recession passed a...
Try, try again: Latest attempt at Colorado school funding measure would...
Colorado voters could see a $1.6 billion tax increase for education on their November ballots.
Backers of a major school funding measure have been cleared...
More money for poor students and cuts to central office: A...
Denver district officials are proposing to cut as many as 50 central office jobs next year while increasing the funding schools get to educate...
Colorado voters reject Proposition 103 school-funding initiative
It was the most significant tax measure to appear before any U.S. voters this year and early returns suggest voters wanted nothing to do with it. Colorado's Proposition 103, which would have marginally raised state income and sales taxes to fund education, was drawing roughly 35 percent support in the hours after polls closed.
Transportation Plan Could Get Taxpayers’ Undies in a Wad
If you're talking to a member of the governor's blue ribbon transportation commission and the conversation begins, "Transportation is like comfortable underwear," you'll know...
Hickenlooper’s Bond “Magic” Appears to be Working
Judging from the TV ads, it's going to be don't ask, don't tell in the run up to the November ballot on eight bond...