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|  | News Items Posted On: March 22, 2006
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IL - Providers of child care oppose changes
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, March 22 @ 12:31:53 EST by emohan
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New rules limiting the number of children allowed in home day cares in Waukegan will overwhelmingly affect Latino families who are the majority of the child-care clients and providers.
Providers and families plan to attend a public hearing at 7 p.m. Wednesday at City Hall to oppose the possible changes because they say providers would be forced to shut down and parents would have fewer local options for their children.
More than half of the 223 licensed family child-care homes in Waukegan are Spanish speaking, according to statistics from the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. About 71 percent of the 3,203 available spaces for kids at child-care centers and homes licensed by DCFS are for Spanish-speaking kids based on demand.
Meza said if Waukegan limits the number of kids allowed in a home day care to eight, providers will have to let go half of their clients.
"These families, without having access to child care, will not be able to work," Meza said, adding that more parents will stay home in order to care for children which will lower their family income.
Supporters of limiting the number of kids allowed in home day cares say the kids are not receiving the attention they need in home day cares because there are too many kids.
Full text available at The News Sun Online
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MI - Troy to allow more kids at in-home child care centers
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, March 22 @ 12:18:58 EST by emohan
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Troy City Council members approved at-home child care centers in the city for up to a dozen children Monday night, reversing a ban that limited the number of children providers could care for.
It's an issue city council members have been grappling with for almost two years. Parents and child care providers have said the city should help give parents as many child care options as possible, which would mean allowing licensed providers to care for up to a dozen children.
But city officials worried that the child cares increase traffic and noise in neighborhoods.
In Troy, day cares licensed by the state for 7-12 children, called group child care homes, were not allowed in residential neighborhoods. The state licenses the providers, but leaves it up to them to check with their local governments to see if they are allowed.
Despite that, there are 19 such day cares licensed in Troy.
Smaller home day cares, called family day cares, are allowed in the city, but only serve up to six children.
Full text available at the Detroit Free Press
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LA - Early Head Start stagnant
Submitted by emohan. Posted on Wednesday, March 22 @ 12:14:39 EST by emohan
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For the past six years, the St. Charles Parish public school system's Early Head Start program has catered to some very young students.
The program, located at the G.W. Carver Early Learning Center in Hahnville, enrolls children from birth to 3 years, and even provides services to pregnant teenagers and women.
Federal budget freezes and cuts, however, are casting a chill over St. Charles's program and other such programs nationwide.
"We are getting a stand-still budget," said Rachel Allemand, the school system's executive director of curriculum, instruction and assessment.
The district gets $1.67 million from the federal government to finance its Head Start program for 3- and 4-year-olds, and the Early Head Start program. The district pays $400,000 a year for in-kind services.
That budget isn't enough to accommodate rising costs due to inflation and step increases in employees' pay, Allemand said.
The impact will be especially felt in the district's Early Head Start program, where classes are kept to a minimum four-to-one pupil-to-teacher ratio.
Full text available at The Times-Picayune
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