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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 · March 20, 2025
2.229.C · Correction due March 20, 2025
A can of shaving cream labeled "keep out of reach of children" in a basket on the desk accessible to children.
Required correction: All items labeled "keep out of reach of children" must be inaccessible to children. Correct immediately. Corrected at the time of inspection, teacher moved the shaving cream to a top shelf. No response required. Correct by 03/20/2025
2.230.B · Correction due March 20, 2025
A charging cord plugged into an outlet, but not plugged into a device, and a bike with a broken handle bar outside.
Required correction: Indoor and outdoor equipment must be free from hazards. Correct immediately. Corrected at the time of inspection, the teacher unplugged the cord, and the removed the bike. No response required. Correct by 03/20/2025
2.237.H · Correction due March 20, 2025
A power strip without the protective cover accessible to children. The power strip had a safety feature that swiveled, but was in the open position on 5 of the outlets.
Required correction: All electrical outlets that accessible to children must have protective covers or in the safety swiveled to safety. Correct immediately. Corrected at the time of inspection, the teacher swiveled to the safety position. No response required. Correct by 03/20/2025
2.230.C.1.c · Correction due March 20, 2025
The wood chips to be compacted at the end of the slide.
Required correction: Loose fill resilient surface must be raked regularly to retain its resiliency. Correct immediately. Correct by 03/20/2025
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 Little Star Head Start’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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