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Emily Elconin for Chalkbeat Michigan’s K-12 schools and free pre-K program for 4-year-olds got historic funding boosts in a budget deal reached Wednesday in Lansing. But $1.4 billion in federal coronavirus relief for child care won’t be distributed until after state lawmakers return from their weeks-long summer recess, even as business leaders warn that a stable child care supply is essential to Michigan’s economic recovery. Months after the Biden administration sent $39 billion to states to help child care providers weather the pandemic, some states have begun distributing their share of the funds. Lansing lawmakers have yet to follow suit. That’s left private child care providers, who account for most child care slots statewide, to struggle with declining enrollment and relentless teacher turnover on their own.

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