Manitoba announced last week that it would be closing public schools, but leaving childcare centers open. Officials explained that childcare centers provide essential support to parents working during the COVID-19 crisis. A question soon began making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook: “Why are childcare programs in Manitoba not important enough to get adequate funding, but too important to close?” […]
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Coronavirus In Ohio: Daycares Must Close Down Or Limit Kids This Week
Many daycare centers will be closing Wednesday under new rules by the Ohio Department of Health. Starting Thursday, March 26, the daycare providers will need a “temporary pandemic child care license” to continue. LCD Academy in Gahanna services about 70 children on a normal day, but did not receive the special license. “I know that […]
How The COVID-19 Government Paid Leave Mandate Complicates Individual Problem Solving
It makes sense for the government to step in during an emergency, like the COVID-19 crisis, in which so many employees are prevented from working. But the new paid sick leave mandate also exemplifies how one-size-fits-all government solutions short-circuit individual problem-solving. Under the new emergency measures, employers with fewer than 500 employees are required to provide […]
Norwalk schools reach out to students, staff after kindergartner dies in murder-suicide
The young Norwalk brother and sister found dead alongside their father early Monday morning had gone missing less than 12 hours earlier, when they were supposed to have returned home from a weekend visitation with their dad. Officers unsuccessfully tried to locate them Sunday night but had no reason to believe they were in harm’s […]
GUEST COMMENTARY: Schools closed, daycares open? States’ decisions leave some parents puzzled
It’s a policy question that puzzles parents across the country: When is a room packed with children during a coronavirus outbreak a good thing? The answer, according to many elected officials like New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, is when it’s a daycare center — and not a public school. And so while Sununu ordered all […]
No Childcare And Looming Lay-Offs: Black Moms Discuss The Challenges Brought On By The Coronavirus Pandemic And What They’re Doing To Cope
As the nation continues to reel from the uncertainty of the rapidly spreading new coronavirus, parents are facing complex challenges that are leaving them feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and mentally exhausted. We had the opportunity to catch up with three Black moms who shared some of the obstacles they’re facing as a result of the pandemic […]
Heather’s Daycare gets pandemic license
PITSBURG – Heather’s Daycare Center, 220 S. Jefferson St. Pitsburg, is a childcare and preschool center serving children ages six-weeks to school-aged. They have a before and after school program for school-agers and also a summer care program. They have been licensed as a Childcare Center since October 2019. Heather’s Daycare Center recently applied for […]
Should Public Preschool Be a Right for All Children?
In “Public School Is a Child’s Right. Should Preschool Be Also?” Claire Cain Miller begins the article with a question: In the United States, the chance that a child attends a high-quality preschool — which research has shown sets them on a more successful life path — often depends on whether the parents can afford […]
Childcare and coronavirus: Australian families won’t be penalised for keeping children home
Families who keep their children home from daycare won’t be penalized and businesses that close because of the coronavirus will still get access to federal subsidies, Australia’s education minister, Dan Tehan, has said. Public school students began staying home in droves on Tuesday after state premiers announced a patchwork of responses: the New South Wales premier, […]
“It’s personal to me”: Daycare workers continue to care for essential workers’ children amid pandemic
NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) -As adults worry about the uncertain future surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, Melika Honore tries to erase all those fears for the children. “So I have to continuously remind my staff and myself we’re their other mothers, we’re their family members, we’re telling a lot of stories about what germs are now […]