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Durham delegation outlines child-care financing, supply and zoning ideas; task force recommendations expected
Summary
Delegation members and county staff discussed child-care supply challenges, a state child-care task force due to release recommendations, a proposed child-care finance agency and local changes to Durham's Unified Development Ordinance to reduce barriers to on-site and neighborhood child care.
State senators and county officials described ongoing work on child-care financing and supply interventions and said a bipartisan task force will release top-level recommendations later in the month.
Senator Sophia Chitwick said the governor's child-care innovation task force is expected to offer recommendations that include raising subsidy floors and improving supports for early-childhood educators; she said she has proposed a child-care finance agency as an alternative to other financing concepts. "The wave of kind…
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