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A DIFFERING VIEW: Scholarship provisions will be discussed this summer

By David Skaggs

Published June 18, 2008 at 12:05 a.m.

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Regarding the proposed Colorado Promise Scholarships, I'd like to correct an assertion in the June 14 Rocky editorial that it will be Labor Day before "even the broadest outlines of the program are proposed" ("Scholarship puzzles").

In fact, at its June 5 meeting, as reported in the Rocky, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education instructed staff at the Colorado Department of Higher Education to prepare recommended policies to implement the provisions of the scholarship ballot measure and to have them ready for the commission to consider at its next meeting, July 10.

These policies should provide a reasonably complete understanding of how the scholarships will be administered if the ballot measure passes. The policies will also provide direction to department staff in working over the summer with the state's colleges to develop more detailed draft guidelines for the commission to review in September.

We expect those draft guidelines will answer very specific questions about the proposed scholarships. The commission will then be able to adopt the actual guidelines promptly after the election.

David Skaggs is executive director of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education.

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  • June 18, 2008

    7:37 a.m.

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    jacka writes:

    David Skaggs,
    It doesn't matter. This tax hike lacks any strategic vision and as I read the language plows way less then 60% of the new taxes into scholorships.