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Virginia Board of Education approves revised child day center standards, removes liquid-soap requirement and asks for screen-time guidance
Summary
The Board gave final review approval to revised licensing standards for licensed child day centers, adopting two amendments: striking a requirement that hand soap be liquid and directing the Department of Education to publish guidance on screen time and common variance topics.
The Virginia Board of Education on Oct. 1 granted final review to a package of revised licensing standards for licensed child day centers, approving amendments to ease certain prescriptive requirements and asking the Department of Education to provide clearer guidance to providers.
Deputy Superintendent Jenna Conway, who led the department’s multi-year process to rewrite inherited Department of Social Services rules, described the draft as “a compromise” balanced between protecting children’s health and minimizing burdens on small providers. She told the board the rules were shaped by more…
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