Federal COVID-19 relief dollars for child care providers will continue to flow through the states this year, cheered by both Republican and Democratic governors who say parents need affordable child care to get back to work.
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Enrollment growth in state preschool programs was already slowing down before COVID-19. But with thousands of parents skipping pre-K this year, the pandemic has “imposed huge setbacks” that could lead to financial shortfalls, according to this year’s State of Preschool Yearbook, released Monday.
Many children who did enroll have attended remotely for much of the year and may have not received any live instruction from their teachers, said the report, published annually by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
And because of the pandemic, several states have waived or modified requirements regarding classroom observations, child screenings or assessments, teacher qualifications, even background checks further contributing to what the institute describes as uneven quality across states.
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God’s Kids Korner: Fourth Sunday of Lent… For God so loved the world
By Ann Moody - God’s Kids Korner
As I was preparing to write the article for this fourth Sunday of Lent, I read something by a minister name Dr. Dan Wuori. I thought it was very good, so I’d like to use some of his ideas and then my own to think about a word we hear all the time: LOVE. The Bible verse this week is probably the most well-known verse in the Bible: John 3:16.
We use the word love a lot – but what does it really mean? What are you saying when you tell someone that you love them? We love our parents; we love pizza; we love to play sports; we love our pets; we love our new outfit; we say we love many things, but is that love all the same? When you love someone – truly love them – it means that you care so deeply about them that you’d do anything for them. Love is a very powerful thing.