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Melanie Bavaria, Chalkbeat Philadelphia January 26, 2021
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Harrisburg, Pa. (Matt Rourke/AP Photo)
This article originally appeared on Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania child care providers, advocates, and key legislators renewed pleas to Gov. Tom Wolf’s administration last week to release $302 million in federal aid but change how it is distributed to child care centers.
Every week, child care centers are being forced to lay off workers or face closure due to soaring costs and a state subsidy system that abruptly changed in September, decimating their finances.
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PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) Thousands of people have signed an online petition urging Pennsylvania to change a new policy which will affect families of children with autism, which goes into effect on January 17. I m trying to figure out what next week is going to be like, Lauren Baldwin of Levittown said.
Baldwin explained her 4-year-old son Ryan has flourished since he started at Potential in Newtown, a non-profit that treats autism.
But starting Sunday, Ryan is among thousands of children in Pennsylvania whose families fear that federal Medical Assistance will no longer pay for their one-to-one center based Applied Behavior Analysis services due to a new state policy.