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On child care, a search for local solutions to a national problem
“The U.S. treats child care like a private market good, much more like a restaurant or a gym, than it does like a social or public piece of infrastructure, like a library or a school,” said Haspel, author of “Crawling Behind: America’s Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It.”
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Maryland’s pre-K expansion plan proves to be unpopular with child care providers
In a spring survey of the state’s child care providers conducted by the Local News Network, only 12.9% of respondents said they plan to or were already involved in the pre-K program created under the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, the state’s expansive education reform plan.
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Finding child care in Maryland is hard. Finding the right child care is even harder.
The complications of finding child care in Maryland often leave families waiting for a place for their child, and that can lead to trouble, said Doug Lent, communications director for Maryland Family Network, which helps parents find child care and helps providers manage their businesses.
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Child care is scarce in Maryland and the nation — and the pandemic made matters worse
The COVID-19 pandemic made matters worse. Maryland lost 15% of its child care providers and nearly 7% of its child care slots from Jan. 1, 2020, through Jan. 1, 2024, according to state statistics retrieved by the Local News Network. Those stats show that the number of child care slots in Maryland fell by 15,152 in those four years.
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State Roundup: Waking up to president’s positive test tweet; Md. cases are down
Maryland was celebrating no new coronavirus deaths and is resuming in-person nursing home visits and normal childcare capacities just before news broke that the president and first lady had tested positive for COVID-19.
Read MoreChild care providers split over new law on union representation
Child care providers are split over a new Maryland law that gives them the option to join a union if they subscribe to the state Child Care Subsidy Program.
Some caregivers are thrilled to finally “have a voice” when it comes to wages they receive from the state, while others are threatening to cut ties with the program that reimburses care for needy children.
Read MoreBill would allow child care workers to unionize
The House of Delegates on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a bill allowing family child care providers to unionize, despite arguments that it would put some day care operators out of business.
The measure would put into law a 2007 executive order by Gov. Martin O’Malley, which authorized collective bargaining rights for caregivers who worked under the state Child Care Subsidy Program.
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