Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 3 of the 4 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.
Not yet reported: ages served, hours, days / week, schedule, holiday closures.
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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 13, 2026
2.120.I · Correction due May 13, 2026
Reviewed 5 staff files and observed the program to be lacking documentation of a renewed Trails clearance for 1 staff member. Last Trails clearance on file dated 10/15/2014.
Required correction: All individuals requiring a background check must review Navigating the Background Check Investigation Unit's (BIU) Webpage powerpoint. Submit verification that staff member has reviewed the powerpoint within 24 hours. Submit documentation of TRAILS Clearance Letter for staff member with written response to the Specialist. Correct by 05/13/2026
Supervisory visit · September 19, 2024
2.213.B · Correction due September 19, 2024
In a review of 5 staff files, one staff member (Leticia) is missing updated Department-approved standard precautions training.
Required correction: All staff must complete a Department-approved standard precautions training prior to working with children. Correct immediately. Submit written verification to licensing specialist when training has been completed and place completion certification in staff file. Correct by 09/19/2024
Supervisory visit · October 26, 2023
7.702.71.C · Correction due October 26, 2023
The following items to be accessible to children and labeled "keep out of reach of children": Classroom 126- Unlocked and open closet door with Dawn Dish Soap, Shaving Cream, GermX accessible to children. Classroom 124- Equate Aloe Vera Hand Soap on sink.
Required correction: Items labeled "keep out of reach of children" must be inaccessible to children. **CORRECTED AT THE TIME OF INSPECTION, staff moved the Equate hand soap to a closet and closet door was closed and locked 10/26/2023. No written response is necessary for this violation. Correct by 10/26/2023
7.702.91.H
Electrical outlets to be accessible to children and to be missing protective covers in the following areas: Classroom 126- Wall by a door.
Required correction: In areas used by children, all electrical outlets that are accessible to children must have protective covers or safety outlets must be installed. Obtain protective covers for all electrical outlets accessible to children. Correct
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 DPS ECE COWELL SCHOOL’s file specifically, instead of waiting for the next one.
Cost, hours and late pickup, a typical day, sick and biting policies.
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.
Not yet reported: established, teaching approach.
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