Colorado university law clinics offer students a way to get experience with cases and clients before graduating. And the Trump administration has made the schools’ immigrant law clinics more crucial than ever.

Lawmakers needed to balance a $1.2 billion budget hole. They were still able to secure increases for K-12 and higher education budgets.

Higher education leaders said late last year they would need $95 million more annually. They'll get far less than requested.

Colorado Senate lawmakers approved a resolution this week promising to figure out how to boost education funding.

A panel of experts said the state hasn’t felt any major impacts from Trump cuts yet, except for students with disabilities. They worry there will be education challenges in the future.

Colorado lawmakers have sought to create more opportunities to help students get college experience at an earlier age. Now, Denver Public Schools’ Emily Griffith Technical College can issue its own associate degree.

Legisladores en Colorado dijeron que la propuesta de ley 276 del Senado asegurará que representantes locales no cooperen con agentes de inmigración federales a menos que tengan una razón válida.

The Colorado Youth Advisory Council is made up of 40 students between the ages of 14 and 19 and has helped create laws. But lawmakers will end the council’s ability to draft bills.

Colorado lawmakers said Senate Bill 276 introduced last week will ensure state and local officials don’t comply with federal immigration officials unless they have a valid reason.

Colorado House Education Committee lawmakers unanimously approved a school funding compromise bill. Its passage marks the first step toward revising how the state will fund schools next year.