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  • 1.  Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019

    Posted 01-23-2019 06:41 PM
    Hello, I wanted to bring to everyone's attention to bill that was recently filed in the senante:
    ''Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019''.
    Here is a link to the full text 
    https://www.shaheen.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Right%20Start%20Child%20Care%20and%20Education%20Act%20of%202019%20text
    Here is the summary of the bill "
    To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the credit for employers establishing workplace child care facilities, to increase the child care credit to encourage greater use of quality child care services, to provide incentives for students to earn child care-related degrees and to work in child care facilities, and to increase the exclusion for employer-provided dependent care as- sistance."

    i feel while we can we can do more than this, this bill is a good start.
    how do we think the bill might be improved?
    also, should we put ECE's field and NAEYC's political clout to advocate for this new bill ?

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    Theodore Kokoros
    Prek Teacher At Transportation Childrens Center
    President of: https://www.earlychildhoodeducationandcare.com
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  • 2.  RE: Right Start Child Care and Education Act of 2019

    Posted 01-24-2019 10:34 AM
    Hi! 

    Thank you for sharing this bill. Unfortunately, the link you provided didn't work for me. Could you share again?

    -A

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    Alyson Panzarella
    BrightStars Navigator
    RIAEYC/BrightStars
    N Kingstown RI
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