Greater than 24,700 households who utilized to take part in Colorado’s expanded preschool program — often called common preschool — had been notified which early childhood training program the state is pairing them with, based on a media launch from the Colorado Division of Early Childhood.
These households utilized within the state’s first spherical of purposes, which closed Feb. 24 after the state prolonged the deadline.
The state will roll out its expanded preschool program within the fall, providing each little one as much as 15 hours of free preschool every week within the 12 months earlier than they enter kindergarten.
Of the 24,743 households who the state matched with considered one of their 5 most popular suppliers, 22,087 households got their first alternative, based on the media launch.
One more 2,300 households who utilized within the first software window weren’t matched with a supplier, together with households who solely listed one preschool program on their software as a substitute of 5.
These households can re-open their software so as to add new supplier decisions for the state’s subsequent part of matching. Extra suppliers have opted into the state’s expanded preschool program whereas some suppliers have expanded the variety of seats for preschoolers of their amenities, the media launch acknowledged, noting that 1,861 suppliers throughout Colorado have signed up for this system.
Households who had been efficiently assigned a preschool supplier can reject their match and enter a brand new set of program rankings, which can then be thought of within the subsequent spherical of matching, although they are going to lose their seat on the program the state already reserved for them.
All matched households should settle for or decline their placement by way of upk.colorado.gov by Could 10 after which register with their supplier. Those that don’t settle for their spot by Could 10 will lose it.
CDEC, which is structuring the state’s expanded preschool program forward of its fall launch, used an algorithm to coordinate matches between households and suppliers. The second group of purposes will probably be reviewed and matched in Could.
Greater than 32,000 households have utilized to take part within the expanded preschool program since January, together with greater than 5,000 purposes acquired for the reason that deadline for the primary spherical of purposes, based on the media launch.
The applying continues to be open to households who haven’t signed their little one up for the brand new program, with enrollment facilitated on a rolling foundation and no deadline to use.
