Twenty percent of Maine’s licensed child care programs are closed and some will never reopen, leaving parents looking desperately for slots that were in short supply even before the pandemic.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Reopening of state exacerbates child care worries
With schools closed and roughly 50% of child care centers open, some families have struggled to find a safe place that will care for their children.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine
Child care centers and essential workers with kids get federal help during pandemic
Maine has received nearly $11 million in federal money to support essential workers and child-care providers during the pandemic.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine Children’s Home in Waterville announces new partnership with Benton childcare program
After 18 years of operation, the Children’s Place Early Care & Education Center, a program of the Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers, will end and relaunch as the Bright Beginnings Learning Center — Waterville.
Posted inBusiness, Nation / World, News
Jerome Powell: U.S. economy remains solid, but rural towns aren’t feeling the effects
The Fed chairman stresses that poorer communities need extra tools to bolster businesses and talent.
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Safe childcare regulations necessary
High quality early education and care must be a top priority in Maine. As an early childhood educator working with 1-to-3-year-old children at a center in Maine, I write in response to a column about high quality child care (Sun Journal, Jan. 14). I am concerned about the direction Maine could be headed. The Health […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
Children need high quality child care
As law enforcement officials, we know we won’t always be in the right place at the right time to stop a crime as it is committed. It is a hard reality that much of our work happens after someone has been hurt or something has been lost. That is why it is important to have […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Democrats, kids groups oppose new Maine child care rules
AUGUSTA (AP) — Democratic lawmakers and advocates for children say Maine’s latest child care regulations roll back safety and quality standards. New emergency regulations in effect Wednesday allow in-home child care providers to exclude their own children from staffing ratios. The rules remove a provision that allows parents to visit their children at any point […]
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Maine lawmakers voice concerns about proposed child care rules
AUGUSTA (AP) — Some Maine lawmakers are voicing their concerns about the state’s proposed child care rules and the care of incarcerated young people with mental illness. The Legislature’s health and human services committee on Thursday agreed to ask Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration for more details on proposed child care regulations, which the committee […]
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Quality early education key to ending generational crime
As first-term legislators from Oxford County, our orientation is pretty conservative. We don’t like spending taxpayers’ money. But what we like even less — and what we saw during our collective 70 years in law enforcement — is the cycle of generational crime. We arrested third and fourth generations of the same families. Ask any […]