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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 · April 2, 2025
2.237.B · Correction due May 2, 2025
At the time of the visit, in the hallway by the door, and in classroom 1 the was peeling paint accessible to children
Required correction: At all times buildings must be kept safe and in good repair. Submit a written statement of compliance to the specialist by Correct by 05/02/2025
2.230.C.8 · Correction due May 2, 2025
At the time of the visit on the playground on the blue slide there was a 1/2 inch gap opening in the slide area, Also on the bridge area there was peeling paint exposing rusting metal, Also under the monkey bar area there was not 6 inches of resilience surface
Required correction: At all times buildings must be kept safe and in good repair. Submit a written statement of compliance to the specialist by Correct by 05/02/2025
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 1, 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.
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