EXCERPT FROM: NJ.com
By Christina Paciolla
Since the beginning of this school year, eight children have been pulled out of Grow N' Learn day care in Thorofare by parents who lost jobs.

EXCERPT FROM: New Jersey Real Time News--NJ.com
By Kathleen O'Brien/The Star-Ledger
GLEN RIDGE -- One visit to Mama Goose Day Care was all Anne Lauterhahn needed to decide it was the perfect place for her baby while she was at work as a teacher’s aide. Little Kaelyn would be watched in a cozy Glen Ridge home by licensed caregiver Caren Haynes.

BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J., September 2, 2009 – As the nation heads back to school, parents of newborns, toddlers and younger siblings are learning a valuable lesson: The expense of full-time child care can cost twice the national average for in-state college tuition at a public university, estimated at $6,585 per year by Trends in College Pricing, 2008. And finding the right child care can be well worth the effort, not just the expense.

BRIDGETON - Tri-County Community Action Partnership will divest its child-care resource referral program after the state decided it was a conflict of interest for the group to refer children to child-care programs while simultaneously offering its own child-care services, according to Tri-County President and CEO Al Kelly.

NEWARK -- On Friday, parents and employees at Montessori Community School donned badges that read "I'm at work today because I have child care" and posed for photographs as part of a last-minute campaign to tell Ohio legislators they fear for the future of child-care access and quality under 2009-10 state budget proposals.

TRENTON, N.J. - The legal battle will continue over who should pay for the $1 million cleanup of a New Jersey day care center where children were exposed to mercury.

About half the backpack cubbies in the pre-kindergarten classroom of the GoldbergBerdais Child Development Center in Westwood are empty.

Tinton Fall's public school district is awaiting the goahead from the state Department of Education (DOE) to proceed with its state-mandated preschool expansion plan.

Buying extravagant gifts isn’t in Caroline Fafara’s budget this year, but she’s doing it anyway – to show her gratitude to her parents.

Even though some towns only have a few students who meet the requirements and none of the South Bergenite towns currently offers a comparable program for the general student body, a new state mandate requires school districts to provide full-day pre-kindergarten classes for economically disadvantaged students. In order to meet the state’s new requirement, several of the towns in the South Bergenite area are turning to the South Bergen Jointure Commission (SBJC).