The Financial Impact of COVID Licensing Standards on NJ Child Care Providers

Autor/in	Garver, Karin
Institution	National Institute for Early Education Research
Titel	The Financial Impact of COVID Licensing Standards on NJ Child Care Providers
Quelle	(2020), (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Quantitative Daten; COVID-19; Pandemics; Child Care Centers; Certification; Disease Control; Educational Finance; Income; Expenditures; State Regulation; Costs; Infants; Toddlers; Preschool Children; Tuition; Class Size; Child Caregivers; Teacher Student Ratio; State Aid; Financial Support; New Jersey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child care facilities; Child care services; Kinderzentrum; Kinderbetreuung; Abschlusszeugnis; Zertifizierung; Bildungsfonds; Einkommen; Ausgaben; Staatliche Lenkung; Cost; Kosten; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Infants; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Klassengröße; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Lehrer-Schüler-Relation; Finanzielle Förderung
Abstract	Child care providers navigate a challenging and competitive industry, where the substantial cost of providing safe, quality care for children meeting all state standards has to be balanced against families' ability and willingness to pay for care. Operating a business where narrow profit margins can turn into significant deficits from one week to the next is difficult under normal circumstances, and quickly becomes untenable under more restrictive conditions. As New Jersey tentatively reopens K-12 schools after being closed for over five months, many of the state's child care providers have remained open throughout the COVID-19 pandemic to serve the children of essential workers. Throughout this time, providers have been required to observe more restrictive group sizes and child/staff ratios, while also increasing time and resources spent on cleaning and sanitizing, to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With unchanged tuition rates, these new standards quickly push many child care providers from an already tight financial situation into one that cannot be sustained. This paper examines in-depth the impact of new and existing regulations on child care providers' revenues and expenditures, and the subsidy rates required to financially sustain child care providers in New Jersey. [This publication is a product of the Infant and Toddler Policy Research Center at NIEER, which is within the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education.] (ERIC).
Anmerkungen	National Institute for Early Education Research. Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 73 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Tel: 848-932-4350; Fax: 732-932-4360; e-mail: info@nieer.org; Web site: http://nieer.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01