Colorado Springs

By Carol McGraw and Kristina Iodice
The Gazette

Schools have cut budgets for several years, and the choices of what goes next are running out.

The classroom might be the target.

"To some extent, you get what you pay for, said Glenn Gustafson, Colorado Springs School District 11 finance director. "If we want to have the lowest-funded education system in the United States, then be prepared for the consequences of that."

Officials want to keep looming cuts out of the classrooms, but can they?

With increasing attention being focused on Colorado's fiscal condition and three anti-government ballot measures, two recent articles and an editorial in The Denver Post caught our eye, and we wanted to share them with you.

Reporter Tim Hoover provided a solid, balanced overview of Amendment 61, which would greatly restrict borrowing by state and local governments. The Post followed up with an editorial against the amendment.

By Political Reporter Marshall Zelinger
KRDO-Channel 13, Colorado Springs
m.zelinger@krdo.com
Dec. 9, 2009

COLORADO SPRINGS – You'll have a chance to vote for reduced car registration fees next year, but at whose expense? Proposition 101 will be on the November 2010 ballot.