Governor Calls for Deep Budget Cuts

KUNC | By Bente Birkeland

Published February 16, 2011 at 7:21 AM MST

Governor John Hickenlooper released his budget for next year and plans to close a one billion dollar budget shortfall. To the dismay of educators statewide much of the cuts will come from K-12 education.

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Bente Birkeland

Bente Birkeland is an award-winning journalist who joined Colorado Public Radio in August 2018 after a decade of reporting on the Colorado state capitol for the Rocky Mountain Community Radio collaborative and KUNC. In 2017, Bente was named Colorado Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), and she was awarded with a National Investigative Reporting Award by SPJ a year later.

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