EXCERPT FROM: STL Today
By Nancy Cambria
ST. LOUIS • An affiliation of five child day care centers that collectively receives nearly $1 million in state child care subsidies is under fire from regulators for potential violations that include failing to pay taxes, maintain building inspections and report accurate enrollment figures.
EXCERPT FROM: OzarksFirst.com
By Staff
(Joplin, MO) -- Parents are struggling to find child care for their kids after more than half of the licensed day cares in Joplin were destroyed on May 22.
EXCERPT FROM: Publicbroadcasting.net
By Elana Gordon
KANSAS CITY, MO. (kcur) - Licensed child care facilities in Missouri must now place infants on their backs during nap time. The new law, effective this month, aims to reduce the number of infant deaths in the state. And as KCUR's Elana Gordon reports, the change has been a long-time coming.
EXERPT FROM: Springfield News-Leader
By OPINION Section
Local parents of young children should consider whether a child care provider is participating in a Greene County program to improve health and safety.
EXCERPT FROM: The Joplin Globe
By Joe Hadsall
JOPLIN, Mo. — Child care wouldn’t always classify as a basic need under ordinary circumstances. Amy York says circumstances are far from ordinary these days.
EXCERPT FROM: Columbia Missourian
By Sarah Tucker
COLUMBIA — MU's Student Parent Center is housed on the ground floor of an apartment building in University Village. Since the 1970s, the center has offered flexible scheduling and a variety of services and resources to student parents.
EXCERPT FROM: St. Louis Public Radio
By St. Louis Public Radio
ST. LOUIS (St. Louis Public Radio) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plans to remove lead-contaminated soils from 27 schools and child care centers in St. Francois County.
EXCERPT FROM: St. Louis Today
By Nancy Cambria
NORMANDY • When Stanton Lawrence moved his family from Houston three years ago to lead Normandy schools, the new superintendent was so confident about the future of the underperforming district, he pledged to enroll his youngest child in it when he was old enough for kindergarten.
EXCERPT FROM: KOMU
By Arika Sampson
COLUMBIA - Missouri's latest budget cuts have trickled down to child care, taking $750,000 from Missouri Child Care Resource and Referral Network and causing it to consolidate eight agencies into four.