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The small pool of childcare options is a problem throughout the Uncompahgre Valley and the San Juans, and it doesn’t affect only kids and parents. There is also a trickle-down effect: local childcare professionals and community leaders agree the dearth of quality childcare impacts local economics.
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Licensed childcare slots can be difficult for working parents to find, and spaces that are available are expensive. But there are ways to address the problem, and a new coalition of 18 local organizations with an early childhood development interest is working to help figure out solutions.
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An organization backed by prominent Colorado leaders is moving toward ballot initiatives in 2016 to roll back the state’s TABOR spending caps and make it harder to amend the constitution.
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An overhaul to the rules for licensed child care centers in Colorado is getting praise from health and child advocates for provisions that ban sugary drinks, limit television viewing, and require playground time and healthy meals.
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