EXCERPT FROM: PRWeb
By PRWeb
Smart Horizons Institute now offers the Florida Child Care Professional Credential(FCCPC) online for both English and Spanish speakers. The Florida Child Care Professional Credential (FCCPC) certificate focuses on the competencies required by the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) for early childhood professionals seeking a Florida staff credential. The program provides early childhood professionals the skills and knowledge necessary for working with young children.
EXCERPT FROM: The Florida Times-Union
By Matt Dixon
The panel tasked with crafting the House's education budget unveiled their first proposal.
EXCERPT FROM: ABC Action News
By Alan Cohn
TAMPA - An I-Team investigation has discovered a state website designed to help parents check out whether the day care where they send their children is safe may not tell the whole story. Not even close.
EXCERPT FROM: Miami Herald
By Kathleen Mcgrory
Miami-Dade schoolchildren return to the classroom this week, but as many as 4,500 may not be returning to their after-school programs.
EXCERPT FROM: The Florida Times-Union
By Deirdre Conner
Every day in Jacksonville, thousands of children are denied the opportunity to learn during their critical first years, often despite parents' best efforts.
EXCERPT FROM: The Florida Times-Union
By Mary Kelli Palka
Florida is in the beginning stages of creating a statewide rating system, similar to one in Duval County, to help improve the quality of early learning in child-care centers and give parents a tool in finding care.
EXCERPT FROM: The Florida Times-Union
By Mary Kelli Palka
With a kiss and a wave, Jayson Richemond's mother drops off the 1-year-old shortly after 5:30 one rainy January morning at Kidz n Kidz Academy in Arlington.
EXCERPT FROM: WBBH News
By Andy Pierotti
FORT MYERS: To keep children safe, Florida law requires daycare centers to conduct criminal background checks on its workers. The state reviews those checks multiple times a year at licensed facilities; but it can't review them at unlicensed faith-based daycares.
EXCERPT FROM: Miami Herald
By Carol Marbin Miller and Mar Cabra
The founders of The Children's Movement of Florida say they have discovered something that almost all Floridians hold in common: They love their children.
EXCERPT FROM: The Palm Beach Post OPINION
By Rhonda Swan
At its first meeting Tuesday, a task force created to examine Florida's child-care standards will review how the state licenses the 12,846 facilities that provide care to more than 700,000 children.