Beginning next month, Colorado’s state government will send $200 million in federal money to the parents of 300,000 children, compensating them for meals their kids did not receive at school due to remote and hybrid learning during the pandemic. The money is part of the federal Pandemic-EBT program, which was created during the early days of COVID-19 last spring and extended in September to pay low-income parents for the entirety of the 2020-2021 school year in districts where students are attending classes online. But the rollout has been slow at the federal level due to logistical issues.