Colo. turns away thousands from preschool

[Arctic Dave]

The Associated Press


DENVER — Thousands of Colorado children who qualify for free preschool won't be going because of state budget shortfalls.

The Denver Post reports Sunday that 17 percent of eligible 4-year-olds weren't able to attend preschool during the 2011-12 school year, the most recent year with state estimates (http://bit.ly/13cJ9t9).

An increase of 3,200 slots this school year for children in preschool and kindergarten is expected to offer some relief. But state officials say the expansion isn't enough.

State lawmakers have capped the number of children who can be served by the Colorado Preschool Program at 20,160, or 29 percent, of the state's 4-year-olds. As a result, demand for the program generally exceeds the available slots, leaving districts with long waiting lists.

Read more here: http://www.adn.com/2013/08/04/3007601/colo-turns-away-thousands-from.html#storylink=cpy



Nothing more at link. Any Colorado DUers have more information about this?

[bettyellen]

1. fuckers will love knocking women out of the job market as a bonus

[earthside]

4. Women?

Men are just as capable care providers for their children as women ... and the corporate elites are just as happy to see men knocked out of the job market as women these days.

[bettyellen]

5. reports have shown this is what happens when daycare/ preschool is not available....

And RWers love it- women leave the workforce voluntarily in much larger numbers. Because their husbands earn 30% more.
Not because they don't want to work- because of economics. There have been loads of studies, and they have found this was true because of lowered payscales since the recession, too. Not worth it to hire FT help.
But hey- I am referring to real life and not some Utopia here.

[earthside]

6. Me, too.

And that is why men have lost more jobs than women in the Great Recession.

Because of the pay differential.

There are tons more men being stay-home-dads than before the recession.

[bettyellen]

7. you too- glad women are pushed out of the workforce? men lost more jobs because they tended

to stay away from the lower paying but much more stable areas of education and health care. Job losses were largely in manufacturing and construction / real estate - which always have higher rewards and risks.
And since government has cut back, education and health jobs have been increasingly cut- making the the recovery harder for women than for men. A lot of women with kids have given up for a while and are no longer counted among the unemployed.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2011/07/wheres_the_shecovery.html

[HiPointDem]

8. education has been one of the big areas of job loss.

More than 300,000 education jobs have been lost since the end of the recession in June 2009, said the report, which was prepared by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Domestic Policy Council and National Economic Council.

http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/18/white-house-report-urges-investment-after-300000-education-jobs-lost/

[bettyellen]

9. yep - that;s what I said - AFTER the recession, women's recovery is much slower because of this and

big losses in the health care sector. Men were hit harder earlier, and are rebounding first.

[HiPointDem]

10. education has been losing jobs since the beginning of the recession, & it's not clear that

men are 'rebounding first'.

Women Have Regained Greater Share of Jobs Lost in Recession Than Men


According to Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) analysis of the November employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), job growth improved, with 146,000 jobs added to nonfarm payrolls. Job growth was strong for women (91,000 jobs) and men (55,000 jobs).

http://www.iwpr.org/press-room/press-releases/women-have-regained-greater-share-of-jobs-lost-in-recession-than-men


All the jobs lost by women during the Great Recession have been recovered, at least in the private sector. But men still have a way to go before that happens.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week that women held 54,623,000 private sector jobs in June, an increase of 116,000 from the previous month and 63,000 more than they held in December 2007, when the previous high was set. The gap between records -- 65 months -- was the longest such period since the government began keeping track of the gender of job holders in 1964. Men have been gaining jobs as well, but the 59,428,000 jobs they now hold is 1.8 million jobs below the previous high, reached in June 2007.

The relatively better performance of women does not appear to be the result of employer preference for female employees. In fact, the opposite may be true. In most industries, women's share of the labor force is down from what it was when the recession began. But some professions with a predominantly female workforce have done better than the economy as a whole.

http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Gender-gaps-appear-in-jobs-recovery-4663200.php

[bettyellen]

11. but education continues to bleed jobs, as other areas recover.

your links support what I said, BTW. So, thanks!


In industries as disparate as manufacturing, information services and financial services, women and men lost jobs at about the same rate in the first year or two after the economy began to decline. But as the industries stabilized or began to recover, men were far more likely than women to find jobs. Since June 2009, significant numbers of jobs in all three industries have gone to men, while the ranks of women among jobholders continued to shrink in two of the fields, manufacturing and information services, and stabilize in the third, financial services.

In the category that includes restaurants and bars -- in which women hold a small majority of the jobs -- men and women lost jobs at roughly the same rate until the end of 2009. But since then, as employment increased, men have been more likely to find positions. For the entire period, male employment in such establishments is up more than 8 percent, while female employment has risen nearly 5 percent.

[Mr. David]

2. Wow. I didn't hear about this. I just enrolled my son into the Denver Preschool Program

and got approval for the $318/mo tuition payment plus an additional $2,500 scholarship to help reduce my monthly payment which will ultimately come around $400/month for the next 9 months.

He is going to do PK this fall, full time.

[niyad]

3. but all that fracking is supposed to be bringing soooo much money to the state, gov frackenlooper

[Arctic Dave]

12. Does Colorado get a decent royalty from their resources

or is it like ND where land owners own the mineral rights?

[niyad]

13. don't know for sure. do know that we are constantly being told that fracking is essential to

this economy, bringing jobs and money to the cities and state.