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Here’s where lodging tax hikes for child care passed and failed in Colorado

By Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado

A child colors on a table

One sales tax for child care passing, one failing

Colorado voters: Child care funding measures could be coming to a ballot near you

By Ann Schimke, Chalkbeat Colorado

A child sitting on the ground playing with blocks

Two mothers and Trump’s Head Start rule: Child care shortages meet anti-immigrant politics

A woman with black hair in a ponytail blue shirt leggings sits on a round bean bag with children surrounding her

Three takeaways from a new report on child care costs, supply in Colorado

Backpacks like a first grade classroom at Goldrick Elementary.

Last of COVID money helps create child care seats in rural Colorado

Cups filled with crayons.

Colorado’s preschool program ranks high for enrollment, low for quality guardrails, report finds

A preschool classroom at Head Start

Government and Politics

Caught between state and federal budget cuts, Colorado local governments fear for future of vital programs

By Brian Eason, The Colorado Sun

In the foreground, three baskets on top of a brown bookshelf. In the background blurred slightly is a classroom with desks, chairs, and a woman standing near open windows with light coming in.

In tough budget year, raises for Colorado child care workers win continued support from lawmakers

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Funding for Colorado ‘Head Start’ child care and preschool program threatened by Trump’s budget proposal

By Jenny Brundin

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Government and Politics

Colorado Senate rejects rules for investor-owned child care centers

A collage of early child care facilities

Colorado lawmakers advance bill that would put guardrails on private equity-backed child care chains

Young children playing in a circle standing and jumping around in a classroom with an adult to the side.

Here’s how Colorado’s doing in bid to meet key early childhood goals

A play area in a child care center. Two blue bean bags leaning up against the brick wall on top of a blue play carpet. There is a bookshelf between the bags. Light from a window to the right seeps in.

Colorado is the fifth most expensive state for child care. Advocates launch a campaign for why a collective approach is needed

By Jenny Brundin

New analysis shows schools have work to do to remove lead from drinking water

Government and Politics

In search of funding for child care, 2 Colorado regions pursue special taxing districts

School districts’ case against Colorado’s universal preschool and its matching process awaits ruling

By Jenny Brundin

Space Base Delta 1 Cmdr., Col. David Hanson delivers the annual “State of the Bases” event at Peterson Space Force Base on March 8th, 2024.

Affordable housing and childcare are among challenges faced by Space Force in Colorado Springs

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