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A message from Wade Buchanan, Bell Policy Center President, outlining the Bell's agenda for the coming year: to close the student achievement gap, make college affordable, expand health care coverage, help working families, counter misguided immigration reform and influence the policy debate in the 2006 election.

The legislature should review its staffing levels and utilization to ensure the development of permanent, professional expertise in a wider variety of issues and to ensure legislators have prompt access to the nonbiased information they need to make wise decisions.

A Boulder Daily Camera commentary laying out the Bell Policy Center's 2006 agenda to: close the achievement gap, get more low-income students into college, promote self-sufficiency and expand health care coverage.