Opinion: House and Senate leaders are focusing on pre-K funding to repair America’s broken child-care network. But it’s school-age children who most need flexible and high-quality child care in the coming months.
Bruce Fuller, a professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, is author ofCongressional leaders have managed to set aside their usual partisan divisions to agree on a keystone measure for rebuilding the economy: repairing America’s broken child-care network.
A proven Republican idea could quickly solve this problem – portable vouchers that would instantly award dollars to parents, along with the ability to choose the child care option that works best in their individual circumstances, whether that be a private caregiver or something more formal.This policy has a proven track record. In 1990, George H.W.
The ability of Greene’s children to take part with digital instruction at day care offers an added bonus — one that will be particularly important during the hybrid school schedules kids and parents will be negotiating. “Being online at home with the L.A. school system, my kids didn’t want any part of it,” she said. But at the center “everyone was on their Chromebooks at the same time, he was suddenly all in the mix,” Greene said.
Leading Democratic proposals, including a $50 billion plan from Sen. Patty Murray , a former preschool teacher, already feel obsolete. Her bill would move some new dollars to voucherized block-grants. But advocates have nudged her to focus on pre-K-age children – ignoring the nation’s shift toward part-time schooling.
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