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Another budget shortfall looms | EdNewsColorado

Another budget shortfall looms | EdNewsColorado

Another budget shortfall looms

Colorado CapitolColorado needs to cover another $256 million shortfall in the current 2010-11 state budget, economists told the Joint Budget Committee today.

“It would be difficult to balance a shortfall of that size without impacting K-12 or higher education,” state budget director Todd Saliman told Education News Colorado. But, he added, Gov. Bill Ritter will do everything he can to