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Child-care providers ask Senate to keep peer-review appeal, expand worker-childcare benefit and eligibility
Summary
Multiple child-care owners and CEO Project representatives asked senators to restore the peer-review appeal process, support Senate Bill 177 (free childcare for child-care workers), and expand eligibility for publicly funded child care, arguing these changes would stabilize centers and expand capacity.
Several child‑care providers and representatives of the CEO Project told the Ohio Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday that changes in the budget process and the removal of a peer‑review appeal would imperil small licensed providers and urged support for Senate Bill 177, a proposal to provide free child care to child‑care workers in exchange for their employment.
Speakers including Nafree Cook (CEO Project), Sandra Phillips (Pitter Patter Learning Center), Tashiana Quachie (owner of…
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