EXCERPT FROM: Recordnet.com
By Jennifer Torres
STOCKTON - When Dorothy Armstrong began offering child care in her home in 1958, it wasn't really by design.

Qualified child-care providers and child development students are eligible for reduced tuition and other financial assistance through UCR Extension’s Early Childhood and Family Studies program.

A proposal that would let some child-care operators and employees bargain collectively for increased state payments is off the table this legislative session.

NEW YORK—Dozens of home-based childcare providers were joined by NYC Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr. and United Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten in front of the City Hall on Wednesday to protest unpaid state-mandated raises.

HELENA - Kelly Rosenleaf has some advice for lawmakers.

NORTH ANDOVER — Three years after opening, Little Professionals day-care center on Route 114, near the Middleton line, closed permanently Wednesday night, putting 30 people out of work and leaving families scrambling to find day-care options for more than 100 children.

AURORA — Talk of a day care shortage in Aurora has been running through town for years, but for Aurora Child Care's board of directors, it all comes down to one question.

On Oct. 3, six-month-old Dylan Wolf didn't go the Calvary Kids Center daycare downtown as he usually does. His dad took him to see family instead.

For some families with young children, working a traditional nine-to-five job just doesn’t make sense anymore. Between day care and after-school care services, the take home pay of some parents go right back out in childcare fees.

When does a Win-Win situation become a Win-For-All good deal? When child care centers provide free childcare tuition for their employees’ children. Even with the tightest of budgets you can make your child care center a great place to work and a second home to the children in your care.