Day Care - Our Children's Keepers
Day care checks for sex offenders might widen
ATLANTA -- Georgia bans sex offenders from working or volunteering at child care centers. But it does not require that anyone check any further than Georgia for that criminal history.
Day Care - Our Children's Keepers
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Low-performing day cares improve with stimulus program
More than 500 low-performing day cares have made improvements since getting extra training and money for supplies through a special stimulus-funded state program that ended this summer, state officials say.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Georgia starting rating system for day cares
After six years of study, Georgia is launching a rating system for day cares and Georgia pre-kindergarten programs to help parents identify higher-quality child care.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Day care for disabled kids hard to find in midstate
Two weeks before school started, the new day care director broke the bad news to Nancy Kelley: No more after-school program would be offered. She would have two weeks to find some other care for her son Joseph.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Tips for parents seeking day care for kids with special needs
Marcie Meelaphsom, who cares for her 9-year-old autistic grandson, said she gave up on enrolling him in a day care center. One director told her the day care was too concerned about liability. She felt that another center was stalling by requiring more and more signed forms and personal information...
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LOCAL & STATE
Day care assistance funds drying up as need deepens
For parents such as Vanita Adams, government help with day care costs made the difference between employment and welfare.
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LOCAL & STATE
Operators: State subsidy drives families into low-quality day care
Day care providers say the state of Georgia is depressing the day care market and leaving poor families with no choice but to attend the worst day cares.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Fees strain parents, but centers still barely paying the bills
Many parents save for more than a decade for their children’s college education. There are scholarships and federal assistance to help young adults and their parents afford that huge investment in their future.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Day care appeals license revocation after kids seen walking home on busy Jones highway
A Jones County day care owner is appealing the state’s decision to revoke her license to operate, after a June 28 incident in which she sent four children in her care walking home unsupervised on a busy highway.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Quality day care crucial to economy, some business leaders say
At first, day care quality may seem irrelevant to those without young children. But a growing understanding of early brain development, and its role in later life success, is helping the issue gain traction from the classroom to the boardroom.
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DAY CARE - OUR CHILDREN'S KEEPERS
Research on early learning shows economic payoff
An anti-crime organization made up of law enforcement, prosecutors and survivors of violence has issued a series of reports for different states on the importance of quality early childhood programs. To make its point, the group, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, chronicles some of the most prominent...








