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Senate advances licensure for early childhood educators amid debate over impact on family providers
Summary
S206 — a broad licensure scheme for early childhood educators in nonpublic settings — was advanced and ordered for third reading after extended debate over workforce impacts, fees and whether the bill should return to the Education Committee; a motion to recommit failed on a roll call.
The Vermont Senate on the floor advanced S206, a bill to add early childhood educators in nonpublic settings to the professions regulated by the Office of Professional Regulation (OPR), but the measure drew extended questioning and a failed motion to recommit the bill to the Education Committee.
Senator from Chittenden Central (committee reporter) presented the Health & Welfare committee report and walked the chamber through the proposed statutory chapters: definitions and licensure tiers (ECE 1 assistant, ECE 2 lead, ECE 3 lead/supervisory), exemptions for teachers licensed by the Agency of Education, license renewal and fees, variances and transitional licenses, and enforcement and disclosure requirements. The reporter said the bill would create a board of…
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