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Some reading. If you plan to be a childcare provider for a long time you might want to get ahold of TEACH. D.C. In D.C. They are mandating educational requirements, even for home providers. By 2018: home care providers and assistant teachers in centers will be required to have at least a Child Development Associate Credential By 2019: larger home providers, known as “expanded” providers, will need an associate degree with at least 24 credit hours in early-childhood education or a similar field. By 2020: lead classroom teachers will be required to have at least an associate degree in ECE or a similar field, or a non-related associate degree with at least 24 semester credit hours in ECE or a similar field. By 2022: directors of preschool and child-care centers will be required to have at least a bachelor’s degree in ECE or a similar field, or have a non-related bachelor’s with at least 15 credit hours in ECE or a similar field. |
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This whilst you read nearly daily about how expensive child care is.
Georgia has some special sauce like this for their centers but the last time I checked ... when I really dove into it... the way it was set up was that the boots on the ground caregivers of the kids were the low paid no ged or HS diploma required staff. It was something like the "lead" teacher.. who could have a bunch of classrooms or ages had to have a degree and had to do xyz in setting up curriculum BUT the out was that they could still have the non educated ones providing the direct physical care. They had x number of hours the educated one had to be on site. AND... they had different levels of what educated could be. There were different "certifications" that would qualify the employee to be the lead. Cathearder what say you? Has this changed. In the end it appeared that the average center would have to employ a few with the certificates or degrees but the hands on caregivers could still be the low priced uneducated workers. I would be looking at the holes in it before I made too many assumptions for centers. They are more powerful and have the blunt of the kids. Home daycare. Well we are easy to push around and easy to push out. When I looked at Georgia's dealio it was that I couldn't move to Georgia and set up shop. Even with a BSN and thirty years of experience, I couldn't be left alone with a kid in my home. But.. here's the fun part: I qualify to be a center director. Put that in the pipe and enjoy..........
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Weeding out FCC and forcing more underground. Well not really forcing but YKWIM. Myself, I decided not to go for my CDA after I thought about it. I was tempted. But they've been pulling a lot of @rap within our local Resource and Referral Agency and there is no more local support after the holidays. Glad I've only got a year or so left, hoping to ride it out til then.
Is all of this really making for quality child care?? Honest question, I'd love to read statistics on how all these programs and CDA's, etc., have created more quality child care providers? How many people are going to go into this field knowing the hurdles they'll have to jump for such little pay? And I'm mostly talking about in-home providers? So you just know we're all going to disappear in a few years. ![]() |
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I am a "Family Child Care Learning Home" now (since 2009).
![]() ![]() Centers only have to have someone onsite with the same credentials. Not required for hands on with the kids. I must be both.
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![]() I did the CDA first but the amount of money it cost to maintain it was not something I could continue (6 slots, max). I paid full tuition out of pocket, took the ECE college classes required three nights a week to complete the TCC ("once and done" is what they told me when they cashed my check, we shall see) and completed the QRIS tango. Any degree in any field other than ECE is excluded from consideration. I felt pressured into it although I was "Grandfathered". The bi-weekly phone calls and almost monthly random inspections were over the top. I was told it would be mandatory and there would be no grant money left to help me finance all the required upgrades to maintain minimum compliance with upcoming regulation changes. ![]()
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I don't have a CDA, but I do have an AAS (legal field of all things) & 3 different certificates as a Postpartum Doula on top of numerous state trainings; after 18 years of childcare... yep I'll stay licensed exempt - heck our last 2 licensed home dropped the license in the past few months even after being open for years.
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I have a degree in ECE. I do think that there should be some sort of educational requirement.
(side rant: I see way too much developmentally inappropriate practice. Provider locally complaining about the child who dumps toys. How they force them to pick them up every time even if it takes an entire morning to pick up one pile. Silly me says how old is the child? 15 months. And a gaggle of providers discussing how 'stubborn' and 'strong willed' this child is, and how they must have no rules about cleaning up at home. UM, that's what toddlers DO!) I can't even try to educate, myself and a few other providers are all but ostracized on the local provider forum for even SUGGESTING that these practices might be wrong. I am sooo tempted sometimes to screen shot it and post it publicly so the parents can see it. BUT, I DO NOT think providers should have to pay for it. Online classes, offered free to those who work in centers or have a state license, with a reasonable time frame to complete a CDA is MORE than sufficient. |
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I haven't heard too much about plans for MI. To be honest, I kind of hide my head in the sand. Things are relatively good. I get one visit every 1-2 years from licensing and the CACFP 3-4 times a year. Other than that I'm left alone.
I have reduced my participation in STARS to the point where I'm participating, but not where they have to visit and observe. I have a teaching degree and masters in school counseling. If the state comes at me saying I need another degree...they better be paying for it. |
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I'm not sure that it really creates quality care. I'm my case I can say that my care/space is a little better than it was 10 years ago BUT I think that would have happened naturally because I'm always trying to make things better. I've been in school for a million years earning my BS in ECE at 6 credits a semester. I'm almost done but will have to close my daycare for a year to do the 3 practicums...that should be interesting. After that I doubt I will reopen. As far as QRS, in my case it meant quality care is being provided for upper/middle income families and low-income families who need that care the most miss out. As soon as I hit 4 stars I stopped getting calls for clients on child care assistance. Before QRS I had 90% low income clients, now I have 0 and that's how it has been for years. I moved, but only a few blocks. We have plenty of low income people looking they just don't call me. I have a good reputation and am willing to take a few, heck I even show up first on referral lists! The biggest difference is I'm not open 10 hours anymore, I'm open 8.5. In my state CCA is applied in 5 hour units, giving most 10 hours a day. When I had CCA clients most didn't actually NEED 10 hours a day, now they're encouraged to find places that let them use the entire 10 hours instead of using their actual work hours.
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But the fact they cut my ratios in half during that time is WHY my rates had to go up over the years . So I can earn a living wage. Now they are adding more and more expensive requirements on me while also lamenting how expensive I am. How would writing my senators help anyone other than the middle men in this deal?
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