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Colorado is one of very few states where the law neither requires nor forbids school districts from engaging in collective bargaining relationships with employee groups. Currently, 39 Colorado school districts are known to have one or more collective bargaining agreements with an employee group. Thirty-eight districts have a master agreement with a teachers union ashttps://i2i.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/i2i_building_facebook_1200x630.jpg1200630