Starting next month, these child care providers will receive at least a 5.5 percent increase to their daily per-child reimbursement rate an average increase of over $2,000 per year, per child.
The goal is to address “some long standing inequity” for the roughly 56 percent of child care providers in the state who accept children that receive state subsidies, according to state Early Education and Care Commissioner Amy Kershaw.
For years, providers in the western part of the state have said that high need and low reimbursement rates have dissuaded providers from taking poor children or opening at all.