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Feds approve less testing for CO students: The Department of Education has mostly signed off on Colorado's plan to cut back on the amount of standardized testing given to students.
Colorado's original plan also called for cutting all science and social studies exams, but the federal government approved it with one caveat: 8th graders are still required to take the science exam.
Justice for victims of child sex abuse: A bill extending the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse claims from six years to unlimited recently passed the State Senate and is heading to Gov. Polis's desk.
Such legislation has been introduced at least three times in the past 15 years but failed to gain much traction. After a 2019 report revealed widespread sexual abuse in Colorado's Catholic Church spanning decades, the bill gained broad bipartisan support this time around.
The current civil statute of limitations stipulates that victims file suit against abusers before their 24th birthday, but the new bill will give them unlimited time to come forward.
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The ship in the Suez Canal has been unstuck. What was its impact? While the ship was lodged in the middle of Egypt's Suez Canal, the Ever Given was blocking approximately $9 billion of global trade per day. Some experts say that it could take months for the global shipping industry to normalize.
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