{"id":792078,"date":"2019-01-16T06:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T13:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=355979"},"modified":"2019-01-16T06:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T13:47:41","slug":"gov-jared-polis-unveils-plan-to-pay-for-full-day-kindergarten-but-democratic-lawmakers-want-to-pump-the-brakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/gov-jared-polis-unveils-plan-to-pay-for-full-day-kindergarten-but-democratic-lawmakers-want-to-pump-the-brakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Jared Polis unveils plan to pay for full-day kindergarten \u2014 but Democratic lawmakers want to pump the brakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jared Polis wants to use a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/dec2018forecast.pdf#page=03\">windfall announced<\/a> well after the election to pay for one of his major campaign promises: full-day kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>His proposals for the upcoming state budget, announced Tuesday, include up to $227 million for school districts that implement free, all-day kindergarten.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can leverage our state&#8217;s improved economy to benefit our schools without sacrificing other budget priorities,&#8221; Polis wrote in a letter to the Joint Budget Committee.<\/p>\n<p>State economists forecast in December that\u00a0the state will get to keep $274 million more than expected in its 2019-20 budget. That&#8217;s because local governments are going to collect more money than previously projected, requiring less backfill from the state, Colorado Budget Director Lauren Larson said during a media briefing Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The request to spend 80 percent of those new state dollars on kindergarten was met with skepticism Tuesday from two Democratic lawmakers on the Joint Budget Committee but received a warmer reception from a Republican JBC member, proving a point Polis made in last week&#8217;s State of the State address:\u00a0&#8220;If all this that we are talking about were easy, it would have been done already.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/15\/gov-jared-polis-unveils-full-day-kindergarten-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Denver Post website, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/gov-jared-polis-unveils-plan-to-pay-for-full-day-kindergarten-but-democratic-lawmakers-want-to-pump-the-brakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Jared Polis wants to use a\u00a0windfall announced well after the election to pay for one of his major campaign promises: full-day kindergarten. His proposals for the upcoming state budget, announced Tuesday, include up to $227 million for school districts that implement free, all-day kindergarten. &#8220;We can leverage our state&#8217;s improved economy to benefit our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 02:45:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}