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|  | News Items Posted On: March 8, 2006
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IL - CCR&R helps with child care
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, March 08 @ 15:45:36 EST by emohan
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Sooner than you think, summer will arrive and school will be out.
Then the question foremost in the minds of working parents is, “Who can help watch the kids?”
Much of the guesswork has been taken out of the problem by the Child Care Resource and Referral program offered by the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University.
Donna Coonce, child-care resource specialist with CCRR, said the agency helps find safe, affordable care for children in Clark, Coles, Cumberland, Edgar, Moultrie and Shelby counties.
Full text available at the Journal and Gazette Times Courier
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Wisconsin falls off pace in early childhood learning
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, March 08 @ 15:39:50 EST by emohan
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Wisconsin is the birthplace of American kindergarten. It was the first state to provide for the education of 4-year-olds, dating back to its 1848 constitution.
But now, as nationwide momentum swells for educating children earlier, Wisconsin is not at the head of the class.
Wisconsin ranks behind Oklahoma, West Virginia, South Carolina and others on several measures compiled by the National Institute for Early Education Research, at Rutgers University.
"Wisconsin has a long tradition of progressive innovations in social policy. It is surprising to me that Wisconsin is not among the vanguard of states in early education," says Bill Gormley, a professor of public policy at Georgetown University.
Advocate groups working with the state Department of Public Instruction have been nurturing community-based collaborations that include child-care providers, Head Start agencies and schools. They also stress parent involvement, not only to increase the buy-in but in the belief that the best schooling requires reinforcement from home.
In the last five years, enrollment in 4-year-old kindergarten in Wisconsin has grown 45% to nearly 21,000 students. About 56% of the state's 416 elementary school districts offer pre-kindergarten programs.
Full text available at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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ID - City Council hears about child care legislaton
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, March 08 @ 15:29:53 EST by emohan
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Contractors, electricians, even hairdressers are regulated by the state.
So why shouldn't child care providers be?
Gena Anderson, a licensed child care provider and a member of the Snake River Association for the Education of Young Children, spoke with the City Council Monday about some new legislation that aims at making day care operations safer places for parents to leave their children.
Anderson, the mother of two boys ages 13 and 7, has worked in the early childhood education field for 16 years and has run her own in-home day care for two-and-a-half years.
"I think it's important for providers as a whole to be on the same playing field," Anderson said in an interview Monday afternoon before the City Council meeting. "For the safety of our children, we need to be regulated."
Current state regulations provide for minimum health and safety standards for centers with 13 or more children and minimal standards for providers caring for seven to 12 children. Providers caring for six or fewer children aren't regulated at all, Anderson said. House Bill 612 would extend licensing requirements to all providers caring for two or more children, not counting the provider's own children. Basic requirements would include health and safety inspections, fire inspections, criminal history background checks and infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid training.
Full text available at the Times-News Online
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