Sentences with phrase «subsidized child»

Starting in 2017, state preschool and subsidized child care providers will be assessed using the state's new quality rating and improvement system, called Early Achievers, which was developed with private dollars and federal Race to the Top grants.
• Reframe goals of the subsidized child care system into a revitalized educational service, which supports all children to develop to their fullest potential through high - quality programs and a social service, which supports families to work.
An article on child care subsidies authored by Nancy Marshall, Ed.D., Wendy Wagner Robeson, Ed.D, Allison Tracy, Ph.D., Alice Frye, Ph.D., and Joanne Roberts, Ph.D., «Subsidized child care, maternal employment and access to quality, affordable child care,» is included in Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 28.
In 2014, Massachusetts conducted a thorough study of the states subsidized child care system in order to more efficiently and effectively manage the provision of child care services.
Requires collection of longitudinal, child - level data about children attending subsidized child care and the early childhood education and assistance preschool programs.
The OCC also administers Maryland's subsidized child care program for working families and the state's Child Care Credentialing System.
Subsidized child care services are available to eligible families through certificates (vouchers) or grants and contracts with providers.
Less than one - third of low - income children currently have access to publicly funded or publicly subsidized child care and preschool programs.
CCIS also maintains the subsidized child care program.
Advocacy regarding neglect may be at several levels as outlined in the following examples: 1) at the child's level, for example, explaining to a parent that responding to a crying infant does not risk spoiling him / her is a form of advocacy on behalf of a preverbal child; 2) at the parental level, helping a depressed mother access mental health care or encouraging a father to be more involved in his child's life; 3) at the community level, supporting efforts to develop community family resources; and 4) at the societal level, supporting government policies and programs such as those that reduce access to health care, food benefits, and subsidized child care.
Horwath chose Mother's Day to announce at a campaign stop near Hamilton Harbour that saving subsidized child care spaces is a priority for her third - place party.
This website from the Department of Human Services provides contact information and office hours for the subsidized child care program, which helps eligible families pay their child care fees.
(Calif.) Legislators will need to include «a few million dollars» more in this year's budget if the state expects to fully cover the costs of its largest subsidized child care program for low - income families.
Beyond this, there are a number of good policy options, such as continuing to strengthen the California Earned Income Tax Credit and boosting support for subsidized child care and preschool.
To promote health among low - income single mothers, Dr. Chavkin adds, the government should focus on providing subsidized child care, increased wages, and better health insurance for working moms — none of which, she says, is provided by «the current welfare apparatus.»
Advocating for subsidized child care, ensuring that institutions are compliant with laws about breastfeeding, and pushing for fellowships to accommodate time taken off for pregnancies could have similar benefits.
UFT President Michael Mulgrew accused Mayor Bloomberg of turning his back on 16,000 low - income families by failing to include $ 104 million in the budget for subsidized child care.
State lawmakers also restored $ 93 million in funds for subsidized child care to offset a cut of federal child care funds.
It's reported that Westchester County Executive Rob Astrorino and his Administration terminated contracts that has threaten summer initiative for youth and moved $ 5.8 million from the 2011 budget for the Department of Social Services to pay correction officers at the same time he wants to raise the parent share of subsidized child care under Department of Social Services.
«In the 2016 and 2017 budgets we were able to increase funding for things like subsidized child care for low - income families and an addition to County Police - without raising taxes.
Meanwhile, the Assembly outlined in broad strokes for the Times Union budget plans that include a freeze of SUNY and CUNY tuition rates at their current levels and a $ 75 million addition to the governor's proposal on state - subsidized child care.
New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ
To receive subsidized child care, you must be working or going to school.
The Gingerbread House offers paid and subsidized child care programs designed for infants up to school - age children.
Anabel was so happy to learn about the subsidized child care program because now she is able to afford quality child care for her children and childcare is not draining her pocket anymore.
The Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA), the law that governs the National School Lunch Program and other federally subsidized child nutrition programs, is set to expire on September 30, 2015, at which point lawmakers must decide... Read more
They may also participate in the subsidized child care program.
The budget document floats the idea that the new funding «could» provide up to 40,000 new subsidized child care spaces for families with limited income, or «make it more affordable for parents to return to work,» but offers no specifics.
And why would we want to subsidize child care for all incomes?»
The university implemented a parental leave policy for non-regular-rank faculty and employees, increased the number of spaces available in its on - campus child care facility, created the Duke Child Care Partnership to help subsidize child care costs at neighboring off - campus facilities, and renovated the five lactation rooms at the medical center.
A recent study from the Center for American Progress, for example, found that, in 30 states, mid-career teachers who head families of four or more are eligible for government subsidies, such as subsidized children's health insurance or free or reduced - price school meals.
With these statistics in mind, the Chinese government has decided to subsidize a children's book event in Shanghai in November.
But how about in the United States, we just said you know, we're going to stop subsidizing children with a tax deduction.
The tax credit to business is available to employers that support quality care in three ways: by constructing, renovating or expanding a facility; making payments to an eligible child care center; or by subsidizing child care for their employees.
Child care centers serving four - year - old subsidized children were randomly assigned to receive one of three literacy curricula, or they were assigned to a control group.
Sullivan and Sayer suggest that government policies such as subsidizing child care and limiting the work week can make a critical difference in facilitating more equal sharing of paid and unpaid work, which seems to be a growing desire among modern couples — and also a growing source of marital satisfaction.

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Unlike Americans, however, residents of New Zealand enjoy the protection of a robust welfare state including a public health system, 18 weeks of subsidized parental leave and benefits for middle - and low - income families with young children.
You can follow the lead of managers who subsidize childcare or even build an in - office nursery to support women with young children.
The credit essentially helps subsidize costs — sometimes in the tens of thousands for private or international adoptions — for agency and attorney fees, travel, and post-adoption services, such as retrofitting a home for a child with special needs.
A few of the many things that jump off of the pages for me are that it doesn't seem to support working families with kids (it REPEALS the up to $ 5,000 exclusion from gross income for dependent care assistance that many working parents use to subsidize the skyrocketing costs of child care while they work) or even those who (like my fantastic law students at UNLV) are pursuing and paying for higher education.
While in certain low - income communities institutional child care may be a virtual necessity, the church in all too many instances is merely subsidizing mothers who have convinced themselves that they «have to work» to maintain their unrealistic standard of living.
Mintz concludes that the psychological cost to children has steadily grown more apparent, and he makes the familiar array of policy recommendations: more widely available health care, education reform, subsidized high - quality child care, family - friendly employment policies, a living wage, a limited work week and economic support to the impoverished.
And at the same time we have subsidized university tuition for children of professors so that the academic profession is gradually converting itself into a hereditary caste.
I feel strongly that all people should be able to afford basic healthcare, that all children should have access to a good education, and that government subsidized food and housing should be available for those who need it.
So you support a company that imports most of it's products from a country who's government subsidizes it's businesses while simultaneously forcing abortions on anyone who has more than one child.
Just last December, in the Artavia case, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights announced a new human right to subsidized in vitro fertilization, pushing aside arguments that IVF may be dangerous to women and to the children born thereby.
In other jurisdictions, I see people fighting against subsidized day care because (a) young children should be at home with their parents and (b) other people should have to save and pay full price for day care just like they did.
And, as far as your whole «subsidized daycare» bit, I checked out the Care2.com story, and noted this observation «the introduction of the subsidized day care system made it possible for a lot of women, who would otherwise have stayed home with the children, to continue their careers.»
We chose not to put our children in day care, despite the fact that subsidized day care exists where we live and has been wildly successful in increasing maternal workforce participation while also paying for itself through increased tax revenues.
As explained below, two possible uses of school food revenue — subsidizing paid meals and providing competitive foods — raise concerns that low - income children may not be getting the full benefit of the federal reimbursements intended for those meals.
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