In her three decades of working for the Head Start affiliate in Colorado Springs, Noreen Landis-Tyson has watched kids from low-income families go through the organization’s early child care and
Sabrina Wienholtz had an unusual luncheon on Feb. 28. She visited with more than 100 guests, meeting many new people, and helped announce 2022’s newest Community Leadership Award recipients.
Under new law, employers can build on-site child care facilities to help working parents
Mayo Davison
and last updated 2021-06-30 20:46:59-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â Early childhood education and child care may be more attainable for working parents after Governor Jared Polis signed a groundbreaking bill into law.
SB21-236 creates four new grant programs to increase capacity for early childhood care and education, improve recruitment and retention rates for early childhood educators, and improve salaries for educators. Most importantly, it creates an employer-based child care facility grant program to construct or remodel an area to provide licensed child care services to its employees.