Advocates push to expand CT program that helps parents run day cares ctinsider.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ctinsider.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This month Connecticut will be the first state to pilot a new business model for childcare centers in seven communities. Under a 2021 law, the state can issue licenses for family childcare businesses at non-residential properties.
'Connecticut can do this': New report outlines ways to make childcare more accessible and affordable nhpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from nhpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Child advocates across Connecticut are imploring Gov. Ned Lamont to increase state funding for subsidized preschool and child care slots. It would offset the impacts of a new law, which requires children to be five years old before Sept. .
Children of color and from low-income families in Ohio and across the nation are not only exposed to more dangerous toxic chemicals including lead, tailpipe and other air pollution, plastics and pesticides; they also experience disproportionate harm to brain development compared to their white and higher income peers, according to a new report. Devon Payne-Sturges, associate professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland and the report s co-author, said five decades of data show poverty exacerbates the effect of pollution. "Studies have found that the combined experience, say, of exposure to lead in the environment and being from an impoverished community, or a low-income family actually worsened the negative cognitive impacts," Payne-Sturges reported. " .