Early Childhood Education
The request for a Supreme Court hearing comes about six weeks after a federal appeals court ruled against the Catholic preschools.
Last year, more than 27,000 of the city’s roughly 136,000 free child care seats for kids ages 4 and under went unfilled, about 1 in every 5 seats.
Here’s what experts told Chalkbeat about where the child care system stands now and what it will take to make it free for all.
Veterans of the city’s prekindergarten expansion say there are lessons for the Mamdani campaign about how to balance growing quickly with keeping the system stable.
A growing number of Colorado counties use lodging tax proceeds to fund affordable housing and child care for the local workforce.
Both sales tax increases will take effect in 2026.
The 240 new free child care seats are part of a $10 million pilot program to expand access, regardless of families’ income levels.
Colorado’s first early childhood special district could be created if voters in Garfield and Pitkin, and part of Eagle County say yes.
Less than a quarter of Westminster’s elementary and middle school students are reading and writing at grade level, according to 2025 state literacy test results.
One of the Catholic preschools at the center of the case closed last year.
Many Americans don’t think undocumented immigrants should get public benefits. But the Trump administration has admitted its new rule could have a relatively small impact.
A nationwide injunction means the Trump administration cannot require Head Start providers to check children’s immigration status.
Colorado will spend about $349 million on universal preschool this school year.
The closure of Focus: HOPE’s Head Start programming will affect 300 children and 75 employees.
State-funded initiatives are working to strengthen child care teachers’ knowledge and confidence in working with young children with disabilities and developmental delays.
The report from the Common Sense Institute includes a county-by-county analysis.
Results for thousands of kindergartners don’t show up in a state report because their schools got waivers to use alternate assessments.
Nicolle Orozco Forero had a special gift for working with children with disabilities, an area of severe need nationwide.
The American Civil Liberties Union is representing several State Head Start associations and parent groups in the lawsuit.
This major policy change treats Head Start as a welfare program rather than an educational one.