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The quick and easy application for the 2025 Colorado Educator Loan Forgiveness is now open (through April 15th). Every Colorado educator with Federal student loans should apply for this. While the number of awards is limited, some of you will receive $5,000 to apply toward your student loans. And even though not everyone will receive … Continue reading 2025 Colorado Educator Loan Forgiveness Application Open
IT DEPENDS! Okay, I really wanted to just leave this as a two-word blog post, but I decided that probably wasn't all that helpful. The genesis of this post was a discussion on Facebook where people were giving advice about what account someone should invest money in. Often these folks are really big fans of … Continue reading Should I Invest in My Traditional, Roth, or Taxable Account?
I've been doing some financial presentations for educators in various Colorado school districts. As part of the intro to my presentation I reference the fairly typical "90-minute New Employee Orientation" that school districts often provide for new teachers and that, while these are well-intentioned, they usually fall woefully short of what they could (and should) … Continue reading New Teacher (Financial) Orientation
The latest round of the Colorado Educator Loan Forgiveness Program is now open (closes 4/30/24), and you can complete the easy and quick application now. As I've written about previously, every Colorado educator with Federal student loans should apply for this. While the number of awards is limited, some of you will receive $5,000 to … Continue reading Colorado Educator Loan Forgiveness Application Open
I just contacted my Colorado state representatives to ask them to consider changing the implementation of the Colorado Educator Loan Forgiveness program which was put into place by Senate Bill 19-003 (pdf). I've written about this program before, and it's a good program, but the implementation is less than ideal. I'm including the text of … Continue reading Colorado Educator Loan Forgiveness Implementation: An Open Letter to My State Representatives
I've written previously about Colorado's two educator loan forgiveness programs (these are in addition to the federal loan forgiveness). One of those programs, the Temporary Educator Loan Forgiveness Program is about to open up for another round of applications on September 1st, 2023. Note: Even if you've received this forgiveness before, you can apply again.) … Continue reading New Round of Colorado Temporary Educator Loan Forgiveness Opens September 1st
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