Author: Keith King
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City Council: ‘Put and take or put and keep’
When I graduated from Southern Colorado State College, now Colorado State University ? Pueblo, in 1970, I began teaching school in Southern California. As a first-year teacher, my salary was $7,300. One day in the faculty lounge, a school counselor, Jack Nukayah, asked me this question: ‘How much are you planning and saving for the…
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GUEST COLUMN: Tax increases not the answer to state funding of education
Recently, Senator Rollie Heath from Boulder proposed an education funding initiative to be on the ballot this November. He called it “Our Kids Can’t Wait”. His proposal would increase Colorado sales and use tax from 2.9 percent to 3.0 percent and increase individual and corporate income tax rates from 4.63 to 5.0 percent. He contends…
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GUEST COLUMNIST: Legislative branch, not courts, must manage school finance
I was hoping the Colorado Supreme Court had read the Colorado Constitution. Article IX, section 2 clearly mandates that “the General Assembly …. provide for the establishment and maintenance of a thorough and uniform system of free public school throughout the state…” The liberals on the Supreme Court, Justices Michael Bender, Mary Mullarkey, Alex Martinez…