| KEEP UP WITH Colorado will try to address SCHOOL problems with one of the most ambitious and sweeping education overhauls in the country, asking voters to approve a $1 billion tax increase in exchange for more school funding and an "educator's wish-list " of measures... but it won't be a teacher generated list. Outside money is pouring into the state. "Big Change. Small Price," declare commercials supporting it. Charters are in the mix, with transparency promised. The effort has touched off a fevered debate in a state that two decades ago passed one of the nation's strictest limits on taxes and spending. It is emerging as the latest test of whether Democrats can persuade voters to embrace higher taxes by tying them to school funding. The amendment would also require the state to direct 43 percent of its budget to schools, |
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