How Colorado is trying to boost access to quality child care for poor kids
“When Colorado changed the way it paid child care providers for educating little kids from low-income families — paying high quality providers more than lower-quality ones — there was both elation and frustration.
Deb Hartman, program director at a highly rated center in Las Animas County in southern Colorado, called the new approach ‘life-changing.’ The extra money, she said, helped save infant and toddler classrooms that otherwise would have closed. She was able to give her teachers raises and even buy a coffee-maker for the teacher’s lounge.”