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Politics makes changing bedfellows | EdNewsColorado

Politics makes changing bedfellows | EdNewsColorado

Politics makes changing bedfellows

The Colorado Education Association may be the 800-pound education group in Colorado politics, but that doesn’t mean other interest groups aren’t trying to weigh in on 2010 legislative races.

District-by-district lists

See the bottom of this article for charts listing education group endorsements in House and Senate districts.

To get a sense for who’s supporting whom, Education News Colorado reviewed legislative candidate contributions by the CEA-affiliated Public Education Committee and the AFT Colorado Federation of Teachers, School, Health and Public Employees Small Donor Committee, along with endorsements or contributions by three other groups.

Those are the Colorado Association of School Executives, a federation of school administrator groups, which