Posted 5/20/13 - Forest Lake Times
The Democratic-led Legislature approved its omnibus E-12 education finance and policy bill Sunday (May 19) that slates an additional $485 million to education.
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Posted 5/20/13 - Star Tribune
The 2013 Minnesota legislative session is likely to come to a tidy but surprising end.
Posted 5/19/13 - St Cloud Times
Demonstrators clustered outside the Minnesota House chamber Saturday in anticipation of a vote that would let unions try to organize some child care and home care providers.
Posted 5/17/13 - KSTP CH 5
In Minnesota, child care can already cost more than a year of state college tuition.
Posted 5/17/13 - Star Tribune
Federal health officials issued broad new standards Thursday to improve safety in the nation’s child-care facilities, triggered in part by news accounts of day-care deaths in Minnesota, Missouri and other states.
Posted 5/16/13 - KTTC (NBC)
Federal health officials proposed Thursday to overhaul 500,000 child care centers across the country, beefing up safety standards including background and fingerprint checks for employees and requiring states to better monitor the facilities.
13th Annual Communities Collaborative Brain Development Conference
NURTURING RESILIENCE IN CHILDREN
August 7th - 8th, 2013
13th Annual
Communities Collaborative
Brain Development Conference
The 2013 labor wish list at the state Capitol includes a measure to allow some home-care workers to bargain collectively with the state. Those who care for young and vulnerable Minnesotans deserve our respect. It's important work they do, but union representation isn't a good idea for the workers or for those they care for. We join the skeptics who doubt the proposal will bring us closer to what we all want: good care for those who need it, a good deal for taxpayers and stable costs.
Wrapped in a fuzzy blanket decorated with jungle animals, Morgan Mueller’s eyelids droop as she snuggles with day care provider Melissa Lawwell.
But when it’s time to lay the 9 1/2-month-old infant down for her afternoon nap, Lawwell takes away the blanket and lays her in the empty white-railed crib.
Beyond the legislative clamor of more high-profile issues on which the business community has an interest, there is a growing presence among executives regarding investments in the future workforce through market-based programs affecting 3- and 4-year-olds.
