Monthly reports released for COVID-19 cases at emergency child care facilities
SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) Starting this month, the Early Learning Division will be publishing a monthly report detailing the Emergency Child Care facilities reporting a confirmed or presumptive positive COVID-19 case to the Office of Child Care. The report can be found on ELD’s COVID-19 website.
When ELD released its “Health and Safety Guidelines for Child Care and Early Education Operating During COVID-19,” it became a requirement that ECC facilities report confirmed and presumptive positive cases to OCC starting Sept.1, 2020. The OCC staff capture this information based on what is self-reported by child care facilities. Prior to September, it was only a recommendation that cases be reported to OCC.
As women continue to be disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 economic downturn, advocates say there there are few bills in the Utah legislature that could help them recover.
As #Maryland works to expand access to vaccines, many childcare providers feel like an afterthought.
They say they re unable to get shots even though they ve been taking care of essential workers kids for most of the pandemic pic.twitter.com/6BJPq3EikZ Jess Arnold (@JessArnoldTV) February 6, 2021
At the same time, multiple counties, including Prince George s and Montgomery, have partnered with health systems to set up mass vaccination clinics for public school teachers and staff in an effort to reopen schools.
“Part of it makes no sense to me, because the teachers are getting the shot, but not many of them are in contact with the kids, Bethany Dinger said. So, I appreciate they totally need it, because once school gets rolling, they’ll be in contact with more kids at that point, but right now, I see more kids than they do.
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The number of adults going back to college to obtain higher education amid the coronavirus pandemic decreased in 2020 as many people faced unemployment, salary reductions and a lack of childcare options. The number of people enrolled at community colleges declined almost by 10% in 2020, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
During previous economic downturns, many people went back to college to obtain another degree. Community colleges reported higher enrollment from 2006 to 2011, the period that includes the Great Recession of 2008. Two-year college enrollment at community colleges rose by 33% nationally, based on a 2018 U.S. Census report.