From Start Strong PA (https://startstrongpa.org/):
Join providers, parents, advocates and allies from across Pennsylvania in demanding that Governor Wolf and our General Assembly STOP the reinstatement of a policy that will close more child care providers!
Over the course of the COVID-19 crisis, OCDEL has been making child care subsidy payments based on the provider’s subsidy enrollment in March 2020. Effective Sept. 1, 2020 OCDEL will return to pre-COVID-19 procedures and subsidy payments will be based on actual attendance.
A new poll shows that 1/3 of responding child care programs will lose at least 1/3 of their revenue with the reinstatement of this policy.
How long can child care providers be expected to last with 1/3 less revenue?
COVID-19 has already forced child care programs into a series of impossible choices between health, safety, quality, and financial solvency. Chronically underfunded and operating with razor thin margins even before the pandemic, our child care system is in a crisis.
Go to https://startstrongpa.org/take-action to tell Governor Wolf and the General Assembly that this is a policy that should remain suspended and NOT be reinstated on September 1.
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