SB 131 Passes the Colorado Senate

The Colorado Senate has passed SB 07-131 requiring 4 years of math and 4 years of science as a graduation requirement for every student in the state of Colorado.  The bill will now move to the House Education Committee. This bill will mandate additional time in the school day for science and math, reducing access to electives in the arts and humanities. Contact the members of the House Education Committee and ask them to stop the marginalization of courses in the arts and humanities.

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Alert 2               Feb.2007

About ABE: 
We are a Colorado non-profit organization concerned about the narrowing of the curriculum and the marginalization of arts and humanities as a result of high-stakes testing, snapshot accountability, and higher education requirements placing de facto mandates upon K-12 public education.

     Fifteen leaders from education, public service and business form the board of Advocates for a Balanced Education and share a desire to offer students-become-adults the balanced education which will provide them with the necessary skills  for economic self-sufficiency and participation in a self-governing society.

     For that purpose, our goal is to assist  educational policy makers at all levels of state and local government, as well as the citizenry of communities in supporting the inclusion of the arts and humanities as an essential part of Colorado’s K-12 public education system.