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Phil Weiser: “For 15 years, we hollowed out education funding.”

Featuring: Phil Weiser, Democratic | Attorney General of Colorado

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Phil Weiser, Michael Bennet on TABOR

Published | Video Starts at 05:05

Listen, this is a easy to understand problem. We have these fiscal restraints. We're vastly underfunding education. Many of you heard about the BS factor. Yes, it's BS. It stands for budget stabilization For 15 years, we hollowed out education funding. We mortgaged our future. That's unacceptable. I want to go to the public and say, look what we've done and look what we can do. (05:05–05:09)

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Asserts that Colorado has been reducing education funding for 15 years.

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