Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 2 of the 7 visits below. Across Denver centers it cites something at about 55% of visits. Each state decides what gets written up, so this compares Denver with Denver and never with another state.
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Colorado’s Department of Early Childhood lists each program’s complaints on its Colorado Shines page, with the department’s verdict on each and a report behind it, going back about three years. Older complaints are released only on request. The department does not rank complaints by severity in either place.
Supervisory visit · May 8, 2025
2.229.C · Correction due May 8, 2025
On the teacher's desk in preschool room 632, observed a bottle of lotion labeled "keep out of reach of children," accessible to children and posing a potential safety hazard.
Required correction: Ensure all items labeled "keep out of reach of children" are inaccessible to children. **Corrected at the time of visit. The bottle of lotion was moved to an area inaccessible to children.** No response required. Correct by 05/08/2025
2.229.G · Correction due May 8, 2025
In an unlocked mid-level drawer in preschool room 632, observed several empty, loose gallon-sized ziploc bags, accessible to children and posing a potential safety hazard.
Required correction: Ensure loose plastic bags are stored in areas inaccessible to children. **Corrected at the time of visit; the plastic bags were moved to a high cabinet, out of reach of children.** No response required. Correct by 05/08/2025
Limited Supervisory visit · January 14, 2025
2.229.H · Correction due January 14, 2025
On the teacher's desk, observed two pairs of adult scissors, accessible to children and posing a potential safety hazard.
Required correction: Ensure sharp tools and instruments are stored in areas inaccessible to children. **Corrected at the time of visit; ECSE Alissa moved the scissors out of the reach of children.** No response required. Correct by 01/14/2025
2.230.C.1.a · Correction due January 14, 2025
On the swings, observed two children swinging on their bellies. Identified the woodchips used as resilient surfacing to be frozen.
Required correction: Ensure all climbing equipment has resilient surfacing of at least six inches in the use zone and the surfacing is not frozen. **Corrected at the time of visit; the children stopped playing on the swings.** No response required. Correct by 01/14/2025
The Department of Early Childhood keeps about three years of complaints on a program’s public page. Anything older is released only on request, as a single file covering the whole state. Shortlist asked for that file under the Colorado Open Records Act and renews it yearly; it is what this page shows for complaints older than the department’s own window.
The file this page is built from arrived on September 13, 2026 and covers complaints the department publishes today, and complaints back to January 2023 obtained by records request. The next request goes in September 2027.
The department publishes a report for each of these visits. Shortlist has not read those reports yet, so this page shows when the state came and not what it found.
The department will also review one program’s complete file on request, which is more than either source above contains. Leave your email and Shortlist will ask for BVSD Monarch PK-8 Preschool’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
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Ask which of these findings were serious, and what changed.Colorado Department of Early Childhood publishes a correction deadline, never whether the work was done or how serious it was.
Where every fact on this page came from, and when Shortlist last checked it against that source. Anything Shortlist could not source is named here rather than left blank.
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