September 2022

Are Colorado teachers nation’s most underpaid?

Colorado teachers earn almost 36% less than other workers with college degrees, the widest such gap in the nation and a full 3 percentage points worse than the next closest state, Virginia. That finding comes from the Economic Policy Institute, a union-backed progressive think tank, that for years has studied the teacher wage penalty, meaning the earnings that teachers forego by not going into another profession that requires similar training and education.

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To get a comprehensive understanding of your scene, you’ll have to back up. Note what things are like in their natural state.

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Public health officials urge parents to get their children up-to-date on vaccinations

Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment As students across Colorado head back to school, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment asks parents and guardians to keep vaccine-preventable diseases out of Colorado classrooms. Vaccines are available that protect children from 16 infectious diseases, including measles, whooping cough, mumps, polio, and varicella (chickenpox), and COVID-19 vaccines are authorized for children ages 6 months and older.

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