DENVER — A Denver mother of twins discovered a flaw in Colorado’s universal preschool matching system after her 4-year-old twins were assigned to different schools located five miles apart.
Emily Mahoney applied for preschool placement for her twins, Adeline and Lucian, through Colorado’s Universal Preschool Program, known as UPK. Despite her outreach on the phone before the application deadline to flag that she was enrolling twins who needed to attend the same school, the state’s matching algorithm placed them at separate schools.
“Originally, last week they had said ‘yep, you know, we think they’re in the same class, everything’s fine,’ and then the email came, and it said that one got into Southmoor and the other one got into Stephen Knight,” Mahoney said…