Childhood Education

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COMMERCE CITY —Commerce City is working to provide more support and opportunities to its youngest citizens after research shows that resources for early childhood education in the city are lacking.

Childhood Education

The needs for preschoolers primarily arise from a general shortage of daylong, licensed day care programs, according to focus groups and data from regional education statistic generators like the Adams County Youth Initiative and the Early Childhood Partnership of Adams County.
The Adams 14 School District and the city have had preschool and after school programs for years, but often those programs hit an attendance cap and some families are left to juggle options.
Brandi Sinclair, 27, said she takes her 4-year-old son to the city's accredited Kinder Kids half-day program at the Commerce City Recreation Center Mondays through Thursdays. She said she looked for full day options but came up short.
"I bring him here because the public school's preschool program is capped, and he didn't get in," Sinclair said. "This is a less expansive choice than (private daycare), and I like the teachers here."
In its research, Commerce City officials found that about half of kids are not ready for kindergarten because they lack the preschool education needed to be successful before entering school.