Plan Minnesota Children's Supervisor to close the Monday for the day of the action

Childcare service providers throughout Minnesota will close their centers on Monday as part of a “tag without childcare”. The events are planned in St. Paul, Virginia, Bemidji, Duluth and Rochester by the coalition children, which count on us, which represents more than 500 childcare centers based in the community.

“I opened my first website in 2009,” said Monique Stumon, the owner and director of learning to school in Nordminneapolis. “We started with 12 children and grown to 30 children within two months.”

It now operates several locations. Your goal is to prepare the students for primary school.

“We have to give these children a better start so that they can be successful,” said Stumon.

She sees first -hand that the stress providers and families are in the middle of the current childcare crisis.

“We have more grandparents who are now taking care of children, we now have more foster children who are now coming through our doors, co-plays for parents have increased,” said Stumon and describes the challenges. “We have many families who have difficulty keeping up with childcare.”

Your center will be closed on Monday at 12 p.m. as part of a day without childcare.

“It was difficult for us to do it,” she said. “I am in a community in which people cannot feed their children when they don't go to work. I am in a community that I could be released the next day if I don't go to work. We have decided to make half a day so that we can entertain a number of families who still give them childcare, but close because it is very important that we take a position. “

Providers will gather to demand more public funds in order to make childcare affordable and increase the basic wages for teachers. According to children, the compensation is 85% of the budgets of the childcare center.

“It is important that we look at early childhood childhood differently,” said Stumon. “I think it is important that we finance early childhood. I don't think a family should pay more than 7% of their income. “

A report by 2022 of the Minnesota Ministry for Employment and Economic Development shows that single parents have spent almost 22% of their income for childcare.

The Wilder Child Development Center organizes an event on Monday, in which teachers and families can take signs and take part in March.

“We decided to make some noise,” said Angela Clair, the director of early childhood services in the center. “Childcare is a problem for everyone. If you have a company, you have an employee who has children, you need somewhere so that your children can work. It affects everyone. “

A priority for those who organize the events is the increase in financing for early learning grants.

“We have many families who come to us with the early learning grant and childcare aid, and there is currently a waiting list for both programs,” said Clair. “Families are in the middle of” I have to go to work, I need childcare “and” How do we pay for it? “