“Day without childcare” raises problems in the Solano district, National – Times Herald Online

Anna Romo and Alicia Penn held their signs in front of two offices in downtown Vallejo in the city center of two legislators on Monday morning: “I work in childcare so that they can go to work.”

The inhabitants of Vallejo and around 20 other people appeared in the offices of the US reponias by John Garamendi and Senator Chris Cabaldon for the fourth annual national holiday without childcare. The two women work on the licensed childcare of Les Papillons in Vallejo.

In the counties Solano and Napa as well as throughout the state and in the country, children's businesses showed their doors that were sick or closed without childcare.

“We want to raise awareness of the problems for the search and payment of childcare and providers who want to offer high -quality care,” said Rebecca Grasty, owner of family values ​​and place of learning in Suisun City. She is a teacher of certificates that founded the daycare center 12 years ago. She has three of her own children.

Children's businesses, social workers, mothers and fathers and a scatter of children, from infants to elementary school students, appeared on Monday morning with grumpy admission. The group took her concerns with Mel Orpilla, Senior District representative for Garamendi, and Karen Tedford, assistant from Cabaldon.

The group is committed to the state to provide licensed daycare centers with subsidies to look after children from infants up to the age of 4, said Grasty. She found that the majority of private childcare in California made available in Home.

“If a parent sends his 4-year-old to the transition kindergarten in California, it is free.

“The parents should have a choice. In a private household farmer, the relationship is per six 4 years old. Compared to the transition kindergarten, it is an adult per 10 children for 3 year olds and an adult per 12 children for 4 years,” said Grasty.

Another point that Grasty raised: “In some areas we are only $ 7 an hour,” she said. “I could earn more money to work as a substitute teacher three days a week than 60 hours a week in which you run childcare in the family.”

The efforts of Solano County are directed by basic organizations that save childcare in California, childcare in the family, Norcal Family Child Care Alliance, and the parents -leadership training institute of Solano County, a program of the children's network by Solano County as well as many other families, lawyers and childcare providers throughout the district.