For myself as the Education Committee Chair, and for all the members of our Caucus, the message is simple. We will leave no child behind. We will strive for Colorado s public education to be the best in the nation. And we will find the resources and the creativity needed to ensure that the mandate of Amendment 23 is fulfilled. It is against these principles that all education bills will be judged.
Growth is and has been a concern of the residents of Colorado for a long time.
Senator Perlmutter asked me to read a Denver Post article in February 1974, Professor David Monarchi, a population expert at the University of Colorado accurately predicted that Colorado's population would be over 4 million people by the year 2000, and that this growth would place on us enormous challenges. All of these challenges are evident today. Some of them know, at least, that the sooner they act, the better chance there will be to save Colorado from some of the damages of growth. It's 26 years later, and we still must confront the consequences of growth. In December, we took the first step toward a solution by establishing a set of ten guiding Principles for developing growth legislation.