Senate Education
Senate Education spent the day on two Governor's confirmations and a bruising, hours-long fight over Sen. Chris Kolker's push to study cutting statewide testing time, which cleared the panel on a party-line 4-3 vote after an amendment and reams of dueling testimony. The CSU Board of Governors reappointments drew unexpectedly pointed questioning and were bumped off the consent calendar to second reading.
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“8th graders sit for 11 hours to take these tests. Schools are incentivizing kids with treats, with bag of potato chips when they come in to take their first test to get them to stay at their seat”
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Sign in to subscribeDarrell. Senators bright. President Kip. Yes. Here. Rich. Here. Snyder. Here. Marchman. One more time. Marchman. Here. Mr. Chair, here. All present, and we can begin our business. So first we're going to start off with the confirmation hearing for the College Invest Board. Angela Byer, if you come forward and you're confirming, is David Hughes, I think you know to drill if you want to begin. I do. Thank you, Mr. Chair, members of the committee, this is my third time in front of you in the last month, so I will spare you the background on College Invest, but I do just want to mention that we hold in Trust over $14.5 billion that are children's dreams of higher education, and that's not backed by the state of Colorado. So our board members, being financial experts, wealth managers, to help manage that money for all our Colorado families is really important. So I'm thrilled today to be introducing Dave. David Hughes. He's a managing partner at New York Life, and with a lot of letters behind his name, I'm very impressed. He's an mba, a clf, and lutcf as well. He's been serving on the board since August…
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