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Child-care providers urge Senate to add SB 177 and peer-review appeals to budget to shore up workforce and centers

3717166 · June 5, 2025
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Several child-care center owners and the CEO Project told the Senate Finance Committee that Ohio must include Senate Bill 177 (free child care for child-care workers), raise eligibility and restore a peer-review appeal process for licensing decisions to prevent closures and recruit staff.

Multiple child-care providers and representatives of the CEO Project asked the Senate Finance Committee to include Senate Bill 177 and to restore a peer-review appeals process tied to child-care licensing and funding eligibility.

Neferi Cook of the CEO Project said providers often absorb costs and provide supports informally—extra diapers, food and clothing—and that the sector lacks due process when licensing specialists write…

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