Colorado Department of Early Childhood cited something at 2 of the 5 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 · March 18, 2025
2.213.B · Correction due March 18, 2025
Reviewed 9 staff files and found all to be missing the signature for part 2 of the Standard Precautions training.
Required correction: Train all staff on part 2 of Standard Precautions and sign certificates to document that training. Correct immediately. Correct by 03/18/2025
2.220.J · Correction due March 18, 2025
Review 3 medications, and found one epi-pen to be expired.
Required correction: Obtain and maintain current medications, and give the expired medications to the parents/guardians. Correct immediately. Correct by 03/18/2025
Reviewed 4 child files and found two to have expired topical authorization forms.
Limited Supervisory visit · April 15, 2024
2.122.A · Correction due April 15, 2024
No documentation of a current fire inspection was available for review. The previous inspection is dated 12/21/2021 and expired in 2023.
Required correction: Obtain documentation of a current fire inspection for facility and send a copy to specialist with written response. Correct immediately. Correct by 04/15/2024
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.
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 The Academy Pre-K’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.
Every state visit and complaint on file, shown in full and never edited. Open a date to read what the state wrote.
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