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FL - Money to meet the rising needs of working poor for childcare is essential
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Friday, March 03 @ 11:07:27 EST by emohan
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Brevard School District officials deserve credit for quickly cobbling together at least a partial solution to a potentially dangerous local gap in child care.
They agreed Tuesday to pay for before-school and after-school care for 400 kids set to be cut Wednesday from publicly funded programs -- at least through the end of the school year.
Despite a steady increase in the numbers of working families needing child care help, funding from federal, state and local sources has not increased in three years.
That left the Early Learning Coalition of Brevard, which oversees the money, with no option but to cut all but 320 children from the program to avoid a $2 million deficit.
1,000 children still are without funding for care at local churches, day-care centers and other facilities
Full text available at Florida Today
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