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Child-care providers ask Senate to add peer-review appeals and workforce supports to budget

3717175 · June 6, 2025
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Multiple child-care providers and CEO Project representatives asked the Senate to include a peer-review appeals process and workforce-support measures (including free childcare for child-care workers under SB 177) in HB 96 to prevent closures and expand staff capacity.

Multiple child-care providers and representatives of the Care Economy Organizing/CEO Project urged the Senate Finance Committee to include a peer-review appeal process and workforce-support measures in the state budget. Nafree (Nafree/Nefree) Cook (CEO Project) and operators Sandra Phillips and Tashiana Quachie described centers that serve low-income families, noted that many child-care staff cannot afford child care for their own…

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