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I OWN AND RUN A PRESCHOOL IN MASSACHUSETTS. I CAN TELL YOU THAT MASSACHUSETTS RANKS RIGHT UP THERE AT THE TOP!

It is sad that our state agency is clearly deficient in bringing the level of standards up in time to support its communities. I agree with the remark that the agency has some responsibility in training its staff. However the standards are changing so fast with child abuse and injuries rising daily that it will be necessary to hire already trained and educated staff to assist in providing for the community at large until a time were the agency is trained and staffed adequately. A committee might consider createing a framework on how to acheive that..as was done in the restructuring for Head Start.
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It's going to be an excellent idea to focus
on licensing, because all our efforts to build higher standards must rest on that
base. I think the report fails to make at least one important distinction, and that is
the difference between licensing - that covers all private programs whether or not they are subsidized, and thus has issues of affordability for parents, and subsidized programs, like the military,
the schools, and subsidized centers and homes, where a higher standard can be set and implemented by the funding source. Within the military, which is a single system, a coherent system can be created to be sure every military dollar is well spent on programs of
good quality, with fair workforce practices. Outside that wonderful example, the states are working hard to create a system that eliminates the inequities, injustices, and lack of access
created by a dysfunctional system resulting from fragmented funding sources. Let's not expect licensing to solve all that without the other strategies the states are using to create a coherent system, closer to what the military can do.