Nearly six months into Colorado’s rollout of universal preschool, Eagle County is looking back at a good start to the program with hope for the future. “The first year went pretty smooth,” said Shelley Smith,.
I have been very interested in the articles related to the shortage of early childhood education and care in Eagle County. I am retired, from Pennsylvania, spending the summers here in the beautiful mountains with my grandchildren. I devoted my professional life as director of a National Association for the Education of Young Children-accredited early childhood center of excellence, and I encountered all of the roadblocks to quality care that have been mentioned in the articles.
We were lucky to enroll my grandchildren in the Children’s Garden of Learning. Every child is entitled to a preschool education of that caliber. I am in total agreement with all of Maggie Swonger’s points about the challenges of child care, but most important is that the financial needs of the field cannot be passed along to the consumers.
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