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Meanwhile, more than 91,000 Texas children are on a state waitlist for subsidies to pay for child care, which can cost as much as a monthly home mortgage. Cheslee Escobedo, a senior vice president with KinderCare Learning companies, the nation’s largest provider of child care, told committee members how this one age group acts as an industry stabilizer. Older children help offset the higher staffing costs of caring for infants and young toddlers, the savings of which are passed on to families, she explained.
“There’s enough children for all of us,” Kofron said, adding there are 2.3 million Texas children under the age of 6 and not enough slots in pre-K or child care to accommodate them all right now.“We have done some very good incremental steps to improve our child care system,” Kofron said. “But what we haven’t used is the riches that Texas does have.”made child care a priority this interim session, placing these charges in their respective economic development committees.
Marina Hernandez helps students clean up for center time in her Pre-K 2 classroom at the Gingerbread Kids Academy in Richmond., to increase its version of the child care subsidy program. Alabama has added another $30 million to its child care rating and improvement program, replacing federal dollars that were previously used.