EXCERPT FROM: The Red and Black
By Marcus Floyd
The McPhaul Child Development Center is no longer the only option for University parents with day care needs — the University Childcare Center will open the first week of January.
EXCERPT FROM: Business Management Daily
By The HR Specialist
Newell Rubbermaid broke ground in October on a two-story, 17,000-square-foot child care center that will accommodate 120 children of full-time employees by early next year. The new facility is next door to the company’s Atlanta headquarters.
EXCERPT FROM: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Tim Eberly
In three days, Amanda Hester would marry the quiet Army Ranger she met on Match.com. She took the rest of the week off to make final preparations.
EXCERPT FROM: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
By Nancy Badertscher
GEORGIA — Georgia officials are hoping for a $70 million federal cash prize aimed at improving school readiness for the state’s 825,000 youngest children, especially the 54 percent identified as low income.
EXCERPT FROM: My Fox Atlanta
By STAFF
COBB COUNTY, Ga. - One problem working parents face daily -- what to do with your children while you're gone.
EXCERPT FROM: Walton Tribune
By Bruce Williamson
The Georgia General Assembly's 2011 legislative session began on an icy Monday in January and ended on a warm Thursday in April. During the 40 legislative days that fell within the months between, I had the privilege of working with our other Walton County representative, Len Walker, as we both focused on the needs of our county and state.
EXCERPT FROM: Athens Banner-Herald
By Kristen Morales
For all its benefits, one fact remains about child care: It's expensive.
EXCERPT FROM: Digital Journal
By PR Newswire
ATLANTA, April 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Already struggling in a difficult economy, conditions went from bad to worse in 2010 for Georgia's child care providers and the thousands of children and families they serve.
EXCERPT FROM: Macon.com
By S. Heather Duncan
Two weeks before school started, the new day care director broke the bad news to Nancy Kelley: No more after-school program would be offered. She would have two weeks to find some other care for her son Joseph.
Kelley did. But she also learned that the director had lied. The after-school program never ended. But the lie got rid of Joseph, who is autistic. His disorder means he has limited speech and sometimes starts head butting when he becomes angry.
EXCERPT FROM: Macon News
By S. Heather Duncan
It’s not only Georgia’s public school and university students who are “racing to the top” using a $400 million federal grant over the next four years, so are the youngest children, before they even start school.