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Happy Friday! We need your help. Can you please do what you can to encourage your CCCAP families to contact their legislators? Our state Senators and Representatives need to hear from families that CCCAP needs to be fixed so that more families can receive care and those that currently receive C...

Mar 20, 2026

Insider's Edge for ECEA Members - Cost savings, legislation, save the date and registration links.

Struggling? We've established Partnerships to improve your bottom line and retain staff. It sounds crazy, we know! Walking through these options and implementing them will strengthen your program financially. We've proven it, member after member. Review this list and reach out to dawn@colo...

Mar 18, 2026

Insider's Edge - Members only information

New Campaign for Property Tax Equity ECEA can't spend $2M to change the Colorado constitution so that you don't have to pay property taxes. We passed legislation to enable localities to do the right thing and they can only think in a short sighted way about their local budgets. New tax initiat...

Mar 12, 2026

Members--Sharing this article with you. Couldn't say it better ourselves. Solutions included.

Thanks to Abigail Seldin, My AI assistant California's Free Pre-K Shockwave—and the Survival Plan for Non-Public Schools Tim Seldin President @ The Montessori Foundation | Montessori Teacher Educator February 19, 2026 Where have all the four-year-olds gone? By Tim Seldin | The Montessori Founda...

Feb 21, 2026

ACTION ALERT- 2/18/26 Stop School Districts!

Here's a hill to die on.... The public school system is attempting to "eliminate duplicate regulations" allowing them to only have to comply with CDE (Colorado Department of Education) requirements. They are asking legislators to NOT require them to comply with CDEC requirements too. If this ...

Feb 18, 2026

Preliminary Injunction Issued

This order ensures that regular drawdowns continue

Feb 06, 2026

Industry Snapshot (2/2/26)

Hi ECEA Members! We need your help. Only 15% of our members completed our Industry Snapshot survey. Can you please help us to develop a comprehensive understanding of how the industry is doing right now? PLEASE fill out this survey asap. We will send you a detailed report early next week ou...

Feb 02, 2026

Legislative Action Alerts

We have a lot going on legislatively. Here is the link to: Legislative Tracker Find Your Legislator The Senate Education Committee Members are: Action Item #1: If you participate in the CCCAP program, email your legislators and tell them how freezes are impacting you. You can tell them that ...

Jan 26, 2026

1/23/26 CCCAP (Family Letter& Update)

After Thursday's provider CCCAP meeting we meet with members to let them know that now is not the time to panic and more funding was on the way TODAY (a fact that was left out of the state meeting yesterday). We told you that 100% the funding would be deposited today and it was! You did ask us ...

Jan 23, 2026

CCCAP Update 1/14/26

CDEC has clarified that the CCCAP direct service draw for December will be done next week. That would fall within the two week status quo period established by the NJ District Court late Friday. Funds they drew down since Friday have been for the other funding responsibilities. The lawyers did...

Jan 14, 2026

1/13/26-CCCAP Update

Yesterday, CDEC was able to draw down CCCAP funds from their $460,000 funding request. The NY Court on Friday, ordered everyone to maintain the status quo on CCCAP processes for a two week period. CDEC intends to draw down as much of their funds as possible in the two week period to sustain the...

Jan 13, 2026

CCCAP - 5 State Freeze Update

Given the number of media calls we've received I thought we should send out an additional update with some quick links for you. CDEC does weekly draw downs on the federal CCDF funds that pay for CCCAP. They have submitted this weeks request and have been notified that it is "under review". CDEC...

Jan 07, 2026

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