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Students Launch Statewide Project to Make 2013 the Year of the Student

MEDIA RELEASE
June 13, 2012

Students Announce Project Calling on State Leaders
to Do the Right Thing for Education in 2013

Growing Statewide Coalition Launches Effort
to Make 2013 the " Year of the Student"

An opportunity note in support of House bill 08-1370. This bill represents a net opportunity gain for Colorado. By increasing the number of counselors in our public secondary schools and improving the level of guidance available to students, the bill represents an important step toward closing the state's achievement gaps, reducing the dropout rate, and increasing the number of students who successfully transition to postsecondary educational opportunities and careers.

Education policy leaders set positive course for fifth-year high school programs; Gov. Ritter to host two-day dropout prevention summit; College tuition and fees nationwide rise 6.6 percent this year; ???Healthy Colorado??? web site highlights the ???cost of doing nothing???; Women???s economic mobility about equal to men???s; Payday lenders have left North Carolina, and borrowers don???t miss them; Predatory Lending Association launches spoof web site

State Republicans announce education agenda for 2008 session; New report questions definition of ???rigor??? in high school reforms; House slated to vote today on overriding Bush???s SCHIP veto; The ???cliff effect???: When getting a raise puts you farther behind; National studies show work supports are critical for low-wage earners; Weeden, Maushart are Bell???s new 2007-08 fellows.

Graduating from high school not only marks the beginning of one???s passage to adulthood, it is an increasingly critical milestone on the road to opportunity. A high school diploma represents the successful acquisition of the knowledge and skills needed to function in the working world and to pursue further education and training.

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Articles: Gov. Owens takes final action on 2006 bills, Two reports on high school graduation rates, Need for more alternative schools, Funding for higher education hit 25-year low in 2005, Raising the skill levels of low-wage workers pays off, Student debt may deter college grads from public service careers, Kitzhaber discusses ideas for universal health coverage, Economic security threatened by gaps in health insurance coverage . . .

Articles: Prenatal care prevents low-weight births, Athletic women at higher risk for low-weight births, Early childhood education is a sound economic investment, High school drops-outs cost Colorado billions in lost earnings potential, State's adult immunizations tops in the U.S., Experts offer health care reform advice, Unemployment reform: strong advantage, low cost, Only 25 percent of workers have a "good job" . . .

Leaving school ready to succeed is the next important opportunity gateway. For much of the last century, so long as you were a loyal employee and worked hard, it was possible to get and keep a good paying job that had decent benefits even if you did not have a high school diploma. Those days are gone. Today, the successful completion of high school is virtually indispensable to one???s prospects for success.