Senate Education
The Senate Education Committee spent a low-drama morning advancing gubernatorial appointments to three higher-education boards, all unanimously recommended to the consent calendar — but the confirmation hearings doubled as a substantive debate over AI in classrooms and Colorado's stubborn third-grade reading gap.
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“I'm more interested in actual intelligence of our students. In my eight years here, it always bothered me that on the Education Committee, everything was a crisis except for the fact that almost 60% of our third graders couldn't read at grade level. So it doesn't matter what we do with artificial intelligence. If they can't read what's on that screen, it's not going to help them any at all.”
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Sign in to subscribeYeah. So he was running. State Education or. Senate Education Committee will come to order. Mr. Chris Ferry, take the roll, please. Senators Bright. Here. Frizzell. Excused. Kip. Here. Michaelson. Genae. Excused. Rich. Excused. Marchman. Here. Mr. Chair, I am here. Today we have a full schedule of confirmation hearings today. We'll start off with the Department of Higher Education. First, we're gonna start with College Invest. And I think we have Ms. Beyer here to introduce our confirm. Brett Hirsch. Our Senate Education Committee will come to order. Mr. Kurtzfelden, will you take the roll, please? Senators Bright. Here. Frizzell. Hey. Excused. Is there an echo? Excused. Rich. Excused. Marchman. Here. Mr. Chair, I am here. Today we have a. I love my voice. I love hearing my voice. No, we're good, right? Still in order. Okay. So we'll. We'll again just reset. We have Confirm me for College Invest. And Ms. Byer, if you'd like to start us off, introduce our confirm. And you may begin. Absolutely. Thank you. Senator Kolker, members of the committee, I'm happy to see you again over the last few weeks, and this time in person. I'll be brief on a background of…
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