Bea Romer, Colorado first lady who championed state-funded preschool, dies at 93

Former Colorado first lady Bea Romer, who helped establish public funding for preschool to help the state's neediest children in the 1980s, has died. Romer, the wife of former Democratic Gov. Roy Romer, championed early-childhood education nationwide throughout her life. The Colorado Preschool Project, as it was then called, was an early incarnation of what's steadily grown into a universal preschool program for Colorado children that launched in 2023.

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