Tag: Childcare Shortage
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Proposal would make child care centers easier to open across Colorado Springs
An ordinance that would make it easier for child and adult day care centers to open in neighborhoods and as part of businesses received preliminary approval Tuesday from the Colorado Springs City Council. The proposal, which the council must pass a second time before it takes effect, would allow both home-based centers and commercial child…
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Federal funding cut could cripple Colorado Springs childcare industry
Deserae Heskett opened Pikes Peak Preschool last year in a part of the city she knew many working parents had trouble affording childcare. “It was very important to us when we opened this business to open in this area code,” she said. The northeast Colorado Springs daycare enrolls 130 children under the age of 5.…
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El Paso County to reinstate frozen child care assistance program
El Paso County is planning to reinstate a partial waitlist system for the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program, a program that subsidizes child care costs for low-income families. The program ran out of sustainable funding in 2024, prompting a freeze on admitting children from new applications in November of that year. Since then, only children…
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‘Sin tax’ measure floated to help fund early child care in Colorado Springs
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that the potential ballot question would likely be similar to a ‘sin tax’ on tobacco and marijuana sales in Colorado Springs. Next November, Colorado Springs voters might be asked to approve a local ballot measure that would help address some of the city’s shortages with early…