Posted on February 1st, 2007
ColoradoSenateNews.com
Senate Republicans are rallying for a showdown with House Bill 1072. They will offer a blizzard of amendments to the Democrat bill allowing closed, forced-dues shops at Colorado workplaces, according to two GOP senators who will help lead the floor fight.
“We can’t stop the train, but hopefully we can slow it down long enough to […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007
ColoradoSenateNews.com
Sen. Nancy Spence, the Senate’s assistant minority leader and a longtime advocate of charters and other public education reforms, denounced the bill as, “yet another attempt to undermine parental choice in education simply to preserve the interests of school bureaucracies.”
A measure being denounced as an assault on charter-schooling did not come up for action as […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007
By April M. Washington, Rocky Mountain News
February 1, 2007
A battle erupted Wednesday over a bill that would require public school students to be proficient in English to graduate from high school.
Democrats, many of them retired teachers, gave freshman Democratic Sen. Chris Romer a tongue-lashing, calling his measure an unfunded mandate that would force school districts […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007
9News.com
DENVER – Colorado legislators debated and then tabled Wednesday a measure designed to keep an eye on registered sex offenders on the Internet.
The plan would require sex offenders to register their Internet identities and screen names with authorities after they’re released from prison. Sex offenders are already required to register their home addresses.
Legislators said Wednesday […]
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