11/02/2012
Reimbursement Rates Falling Short
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.
Dale Carnegie
The National Women's Law Center recently released a state by state report on child care policies, Downward Slide: State Child Care Assistance Policies 2012. One finding of this report was that state reimbursement rates for the most part fall short of what is required to provide quality care:
- Only one state set its reimbursement rates for child care providers at the federally recommended level in 2012, compared to three states in 2011 and 22 in 2001.
- Less than one-fifth of the states updated their reimbursement rates in the past two years.
- Approximately three-fifths of the states had higher reimbursement rates for higher-quality providers in 2012, but in approximately four-fifths of these states, even the higher rates were below the federally recommended level.
" 'Increasing payments to providers should be a top priority,' said Helen Blank, NWLC Director of Child Care and Early Learning. 'States need to ensure that programs have the resources to hire well-qualified staff, purchase books and toys, and do everything else necessary to build a high-quality program and offer our most vulnerable children the early learning opportunities they need to succeed.'"
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