Author: Paul Lundeen

The state budget will be introduced in the Colorado Senate this week. Building and passing a balanced budget and providing for a thorough and uniform public school system are the only constitutional mandates placed on the General Assembly. And yet, if this year is anything like the years of the last several decades, the General…

As believers in student data privacy and policy makers who have worked extensively on that issue, we are deeply concerned about the fact that personally identifiable information about virtually every public school student in Colorado was surreptitiously released to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) earlier this year without parental knowledge or…

After years of the left controlling education, the November elections showed the sleeping giant in Colorado and across the country is now awake. No longer will parents sit on the sidelines while leftist teachers and their school board allies push a racially divisive curriculum on students. Parents across the country made it clear — they…

It’s never a good sign for your family budget when the word “fee” appears 485 times in a bill. Colorado Senate Democrats are using that word to sell a massive tax increase dressed up as an infrastructure plan. Senate Bill 21-260 is nearly 200 pages long, creates four departments of government called “enterprises,” is loaded…

POINT: Sen. Leroy Garcia The past year has been one of the most difficult times in living memory. Coloradans have endured months of isolation, fear and exhaustion as COVID-19 tears across the state, leaving devastating loss and heartbreaking division in its wake. As myself and my colleagues in the General Assembly approach the starting line…