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K.C. Becker, Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives, joins us in our studios to explain how a yes vote on Prop CC this November would allow Colorado communities and families to share in our rapid economic expansion.
In the 2018-2019 school year, the Colorado legislature authorized a total of 23,980 slots in the Colorado Preschool Program (CPP).
The Children’s Campaign supports Proposition CC, which you’ll find on your fall ballot due Nov. 5. We support it because it is a strong step toward ensuring our public investment system works for all Coloradans and supports the services that kids and families need to thrive.
Last week two separate surveys showed that the historic gains Colorado has seen in covering all kids with health insurance have stalled—and the reasons why aren’t surprising.
We’re renting out the Denver Milk Market for one night only and tickets are going fast.
Between 2013 and 2017, just over half of Colorado’s 3- and 4-year-olds (about 51 percent) were enrolled in any type of preschool program.
This week was a big one for data releases, with a new report on concentrated poverty from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and new poverty and health insurance numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
It’s been nearly a decade since the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 passed, and now Congress has an opportunity to improve and strengthen child nutrition and school meal programs through the Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) process.
