{"id":797276,"date":"2019-07-01T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/gov-polis-full-day-kindergarten-program-could-bust-its-budget-by-40-million-in-first-year-state-survey-predicts\/"},"modified":"2019-07-01T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T03:28:00","slug":"gov-polis-full-day-kindergarten-program-could-bust-its-budget-by-40-million-in-first-year-state-survey-predicts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/gov-polis-full-day-kindergarten-program-could-bust-its-budget-by-40-million-in-first-year-state-survey-predicts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Polis\u2019 full-day kindergarten program could bust its budget by $40 million in first year, state survey predicts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/COSunKindergarten-SDN-070119.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/COSunKindergarten-SDN-070119.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/COSunKindergarten-SDN-070119-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>Kindergarten classes at Downtown Denver Expeditionary School on Thursday, January 31, 2019.<\/strong><br \/><em>Cyrus McCrimmon \/ Colorado Children\u2019s Campaign | Cyrus McCrimmon Visuals<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">School administrators anticipate near-universal attendance in free, full-day kindergarten this fall, a state survey found, which would blow a $40 million hole in the budget Colorado lawmakers set for the first year of the new program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">In the last school year, 36 of the Colorado\u2019s 178 school districts had students enrolled in half-day kindergarten programs, according to the survey. All but three of those districts and one charter school network plan to move to full-day kindergarten classes in the next school year, the survey by the Colorado Department of Education further found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">The rapid adoption rate by districts that previously enrolled students in half-day classes could signal budget trouble for the top policy issue Gov. Jared Polis pushed through the legislature this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"[No paragraph style]\">\u201cThe news that more school districts and families will take advantage of full-day kindergarten is great news for our state and parents,\u201d Conor Cahill, the governor\u2019s spokesman, said Friday in an emailed statement. \u201cFull-day kindergarten has been long overdue in Colorado, will improve student outcomes, save families money and help our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText Tagline\">The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at ColoradoSun.com.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/regional\/gov-polis-full-day-kindergarten-program-could-bust-its-budget-by-40-million-in-first-year-state-survey-predicts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergarten classes at Downtown Denver Expeditionary School on Thursday, January 31, 2019.Cyrus McCrimmon \/ Colorado Children\u2019s Campaign | Cyrus McCrimmon Visuals School administrators anticipate near-universal attendance in free, full-day kindergarten this fall, a state survey found, which would blow a $40 million hole in the budget Colorado lawmakers set for the first year of the [&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-797276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 11:06:35","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\/797276","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=797276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}