Activists, lobbyists, reporters and other Capitol observers crammed into a hearing room Wednesday to hear what was expected to be a tense conversation between the lawmakers who write the budget and Gov. Jared Polis, who wants more than $200 million on an ongoing basis to pay for full-day kindergarten. What they heard was a whole lot of nothing. After Polis laid out his idea to use money freed up by an improved state economic forecast, only state Sen.

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