The first shall be last

As [Governor Bill] Owens said, Colorado ranks first among the states in the percentage of population holding college degrees. What that statistic does not reveal, however, is that by and large those are people who moved here with a degree. Colorado ranks dead last in the number of the state’s own children going to college.

From an editorial in The Durango Herald

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  1. And it’s going to be worse.

    The Colorado legislature yesterday approved a voucher system to assist in-state students with a voucher, but end state finance for higher education.

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