Welcome to my home page. I appreciate your taking time from your busy schedule to visit. I would like to communicate a few ideas to you.  The 2010 election has created new opportunities for the upcoming Sixty Eighth Session.  I am looking forward to serving the state in education and fiscal policies.

I want to thank you for electing me to serve in the State Senate from Senate District 12. I feel honored and humbled that you have once again elected me to serve in the General Assembly.  I believe the eight years I served as Representative from House District 21 will give me the background and experience necessary to make a  significant contribution to the 68th General Assembly.  I am a true believer in representative government, and I will stay in touch by conducting town hall meetings, as well as responding as quickly as possible to e-mails, letters and phone calls.

Second, as you will see as you browse through this site, I have outlined those beliefs that guided my votes while in the House and that will continue to guide me in the Senate.  Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."  We live in monumental times, and we need to take a fresh entrepreneurial look at how state government operates in order to forge a new path.  As a member of the Education, Finance, and  Legislative Audit Committees, I look forward to utilizing my educational and business background to find new solutions to today's pressing issues. 

Third, my experience in creating three charter schools in the Colorado Springs metropolitan area has encouraged me to find new and innovative ways to help our students reach new heights of academic achievement.  I will continue to carry legislation that facilitates the opportunity for students to obtain an accessible college education.   

My newest school, Colorado Springs Early Colleges, is leading the charge to give every student, regardless of background, the opportunity to attain a college degree while still in high school. As Daniel Cole wrote in the Gazette on December 12, 2008:  "If politicians are serious about lowering the dropout rate and providing affordable access to college, they should take a long hard look at CSEC, and parents with nowhere to turn should know they have a friend in local charterizers." My experience as Founder and Administrator of CSEC will serve us well as the Legislature tries to extend the horizons of a college education to students who never thought it possible.  At our 2010 graduation, nine students graduated with an Associate's Degree.  The 108 graduating seniors had successfully completed an average of 45 college semester hours of credit.

U.S. Senator Daniel Webster understood the power of a quality education. He said, “If we work upon marble, it will perish. If we work upon brass, time with efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work upon men’s immortal minds, if we imbue them with high principles, with the just fear of God and love of their fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which not time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity.” Webster uttered those words in 1852, and they are just as true today as they were back then.  

Last of all, I do not serve in a vacuum.  In many ways, my job revolved establishing and maintaining relationships with people. Please take advantage of the opportunity to communicate with me. I continue to be interested in your opinions, because you will help me understand what we need to accomplish in order to make our state the best it can possibly be.

Keith King
keith@keithking.org