Recently, the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) investigated state child care licensing regulations and how these regulations were being monitored and enforced. You can read the full report here. After evaluating each state on 5 oversight benchmarks and 10 regulation benchmarks, NACCRRA assigned them a score and a ranking. Overall, most states received failing grades with an average score of 83 out of 150 (or an “F”). The Department of Defense earned the top grade of a “B” and the District of Columbia came in second by earning the only “C.”
Who's watching who's watching the children? The federal government leaves this task to the states. But states are failing to ensure that childcare centers are safe, according to a report released today by the National Association of Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies.
Like a child gone astray, Louisiana's oversight of day care centers needs some strong intervention and a healthy dose of attention to details before any more time is lost. Early warning signals that attention is due have been getting ever louder in the past couple of years.
Quality, availability, cost of child care a tough balancing act
This week marks the three-year anniversary of the North Idaho Child Care Summit, a grassroots campaign to upgrade Idaho's regulations governing its day care industry.