The Clayton Foundation plans to build a preschool to serve kids from birth through age 5 at its northeast Denver campus, foundation officials said Monday.
Using part of $11 million in private donations, the foundation will create two buildings and refurbish two others for Head Start and Early Head Start programs and a new teacher training center at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Colorado Boulevard, said Charlotte Brantley, president of the foundation.
Both Head Start programs already are at Clayton, but the new buildings will allow more than 300 kids, most from Denver, to go to preschool in state- of-the-art facilities, she said.
A ceremony will be held today at Clayton’s campus.
The plan “philosophically” goes with Mayor John Hickenlooper’s idea for a sales-tax hike to pay for preschool for all 4-year-olds, Brantley said.
