Child care advocates say the changes could help increase the capacity of child care centers, but providers are also cautious ...

Texas has some of the highest child care ratios in the nation, according to Child Care Aware of America's 2013 state ranking. For example, only Texas and Georgia allow child care centers to staff ...

A Blue Ribbon Panel on Child Care recommended an increase in the ratio of children to caregivers. Here's why CT should not make that change.

Child-care centres would be required to have a staff member for every three babies, under tough new quality standards being considered by the Rudd Government.

She said she estimates it would add between 650 and 1,000 new child care slots for 2-year-olds. Connecticut is short about 17,000 early childhood care slots.

‘Child care providers have a choice to get a subsidy and maintain their current lower ratios or they can go back to normal statutory ratio,' Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday, July 28, adding that those ...

The proposal from the CT Office of Early Childhood to change the required teacher-child ratio in child care centers for 2-year-old children should be REJECTED.

Nearly two years ago, Texas postponed an important decision on improving the teacher-child ratio in licensed child care. The Department of Family and Protective Services cited the impact of the ...

Please move beyond increasing adult-to-child ratios as the first "fix" to our state's child care dilemma. • Safety is the reason we have the current ratio system of children to adults.

After hearing concerns from child care providers, Iowa lawmakers still plan to loosen staffing ratios, but not quite as much as originally proposed. A proposal to increase the number of 2-year ...

Day cares with more kids and less teachers risk having more accidents and injuries, but lowering ratio requirements would come at a cost to child care providers at a vulnerable time due to COVID-19.

In August, the state's Child Mortality Review Panel suggested reducing child-to-teacher ratios to increase supervision in licensed family day cares and to reduce infant deaths.