Nov. 3 Business Buzz: New workforce-focused AP courses
On the second of two 9News Business Buzz episodes from Nov. 3, 2025, Ed Sealover, editor of The Sum & Substance and vice president of…
Workforce & Education
Polis’ budget cuts target health care, higher education
Two days after the end of a special session that rolled back $153 million in tax breaks to help close a budget shortfall, Gov. Jared…
Developer of AP courses launching new classes focused on workforce readiness
As businesses balk at the cost of training graduates whom they deem unprepared and schools offer too many credentials with no value to employers, a…
Colorado awards final Opportunity Now workforce-training grants
Colorado distributed its third and final round of Opportunity Now grants this week, capping a program that’s awarded $89.5 million since 2023 to public-private partnerships…
Mountain summit participants discuss new training pathways, affordability opportunities
While Colorado’s mountain towns may not have trouble attracting visitors from across the world, they have a heap of issues in finding workers to keep…
Polis order seeks to remake state’s workforce-training system
Gov. Jared Polis issued an executive order Tuesday directing state agencies responsible for K-12, higher education and workforce development to bust down their silos and…
Southwest Colorado, San Luis Valley map new career pathways at summit
In the 11 counties of Southwest Colorado and the San Luis Valley, businesses tend to be smaller and educational institutions more widely dispersed, making communication…
Western Slope summit attendees call for regulatory reform, pay help to boost career pathways
Asked to envision new career pathways for their most in-demand industries, attendees at a Grand Junction summit this week went beyond just educational partnerships, saying…
Pueblo-area talent summit stokes plans to re-interest students in the trades
The question was a complex one: How do you convince more kids in southeast Colorado that careers in construction, manufacturing and other fields that don’t…
Ideas from security-clearance classes to cybersecurity hubs emerge from regional talent summit
As the Opportunity Now Regional Talent Summit convened in Arvada Tuesday, Joe Rice acknowledged that if he could accomplish only one thing from the event,…