Tag: child care
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City audit report says staff felt ‘obligated’ to watch mayor’s children
A June report from the Colorado Springs City Auditor’s Office raises additional concerns about Mayor Yemi Mobolade’s use of his city-owned vehicle and new issues about him asking city staff to watch his kids during and after work hours. The report says that city auditors interviewed seven city employees who said they felt “implicitly obligated”…
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Judge: Trump can’t block child care for Colorado, other states for now
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration cannot block federal money for child care subsidies and other programs aimed at supporting needy children and their families from flowing to five Democratic-led states for now. The states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota and New York argued that a policy announced Tuesday to freeze funds for…
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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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Head Start program for children loses federal funding in shutdown
A long-running program that serves more than 800 children in El Paso County has been operating on emergency reserves for the past week while the federal government shutdown prevents funding. Community Partnership for Child Development is one of four Head Start programs in Colorado with an annual federal funding renewal date that falls on Nov.…
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‘State of the Bases’ is strong despite challenges, Space Force commanders say
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save As critical components of the U.S. military’s newest branch, Peterson and Schriever space force bases are experiencing their share of growing pains, but they continue to build and grow, thanks in large part to their partnerships with the Colorado Springs community. That was the overriding…
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The CDC has relaxed COVID guidelines. Will schools and day cares follow suit?
Four years after the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools, the CDC says parents can start treating the virus like other respiratory illnesses
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Sweeping bill would expand childcare and early childhood education in Kentucky
A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky has unveiled sweeping legislation that’s meant to shore up and expand the network of childcare centers across the Bluegrass State
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More Republicans back spending on child care, saying it’s an economic issue
More Republican lawmakers in states around the U.S. are getting behind the idea of using taxpayer money to subsidize child care