PLEASE READ: Financial Crisis Child Care Providers Nationwide are Confronting in Reopening

“…Fixed costs — such as rent — often remain unchanged, and covid-19 has introduced new expenses. New health and safety requirements require smaller class sizes (and so, more staffers per child). Then there are additional costs that schools also face: more cleaning supplies, personal protective equipment, thermometers, disposable plates — even extra sets of toys, if possible.

‘We want children to have more materials only they use,’ said Mary Graham, executive director of the not-for-profit Children’s Village in Philadelphia, which serves children ages 13 months to 13 years. ‘But we can’t staff a classroom with 10 sets of blocks…'”  excerpt from Child-care centers have already been reopening.  The results are troubling. The Washington Post, Opinion by Catherine Rampell, Columnist, July 13, 2020

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