Early Childhood
More than 40,000 employees work on the Denver airport campus.
The process of getting the 2023 gift from Mackenzie Scott was exciting and mysterious, leaders at Early Milestones Colorado said.
More than a dozen local organizations that help administer Colorado’s tuition-free preschool program signed a letter to Gov. Jared Polis protesting potential funding cuts.
The new tax credit would help about 45% of Colorado families
Some highly rated preschools will be allowed to have classes of 24 children under the new rules.
The proposed fixes to the subsidy program would cost about $81 million in the first year.
The state is on track to have up to $7 million in leftover child care assistance funding this year.
La funcionaria principal de la primera infancia en Colorado tomará la decisión final sobre el tamaño de las clases para el 28 de marzo.
The state’s top early childhood official will make a final decision on class size limits by March 28.
County leaders say they made a dent, but there’s more work to do.
The department is currently helping 25 Spanish-speaking applicants. But funding for the team will run out in September unless state lawmakers step in.
The state's universal preschool application will open in late February.
The reversal by state officials is the latest of several flip-flops regarding religious teaching in Colorado’s new preschool program.
The two parishes challenging nondiscrimination rules argued that enrolling preschoolers from LGBTQ families would conflict with their beliefs.
One of the big questions is whether Colorado will have enough funding to create the program that state leaders envisioned.
From an Armenian preschool to emergency loans, CIRCLE grants funded more than 200 projects around the state.
During a recent lesson at a Grand Junction preschool that receives state funding, children were taught what sin is, and how God feels about sinners.
Two Colorado communities get opposite results from push to increase lodging taxes for child care.
Aproximadamente un 30% de los programas de cuidado infantil en Colorado para niños de 5 años o menos está en una de las tres calificaciones más altas.
“This is not at all what we are seeing in any shape or form,” said Mary Alice Cohen, of the Colorado Department of Early Childhood.