Are daycares open today: Holidays & Closings – Infant Toddler

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Are Daycares Open on US Holidays? (MLK Day, Black Friday & More)

Holidays are times that special memories are made with your kids.

It’s when tiny hands are kneading the dough for Christmas cookies or being dipped in paint to make precious turkey crafts for Thanksgiving.

But they can also be tricky for parents. On some smaller holidays, daycare and other forms of childcare might be unavailable, and parents may still need to work.

That might leave you in the lurch.

So let’s get into it in some detail:

Are daycares open or closed on holidays?

Most daycares in the United States will be closed on major holidays like Christmas Day, Thanksgiving Day, and the 4th of July. On certain “Eve” holidays, they may be closed or they may simply have shortened hours. It’s common for daycares to be open on smaller holidays like MLK day, Veteran’s Day, or certain religious holidays — unless the daycare is part of a church or other religious organization.

Your best bet is to get a holiday calendar at your child’s daycare from day one of enrollment so you can play ahead.

Let’s take a look at what holidays daycares are typically closed and what childcare options may be available for those who have to be apart from their babies on those days.

Are Daycares Open On Major US Holidays?

Every individual daycare location and/or chain has different policies and a different schedule.

Generally speaking, though — in the United States, at least — most daycares will be closed on major national holidays.

The major holidays on which you can expect most daycares to be CLOSED are:

  • New Year’s Day – If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, some daycares will also close on the Friday prior or the Monday after because it is the “observed” holiday.
  • Memorial Day
  • 4th of July – If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, some daycares will also close on the Friday prior or the Monday after because it is the “observed” holiday.
  • Labor Day
  • Thanksgiving Day – Often daycares also close on the following day (Black Friday) to give staff more travel time and family time. Asking about closure on this day is a good idea when interviewing and researching potential daycares.
  • Christmas Day – If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, some daycares will also close on the Friday prior or the Monday after because it is the “observed” holiday.

Christmas Eve, New Years Eve, and Thanksgiving Eve are a little more tricky. We’ll discuss these in detail down below.

Are Daycares Open or Closed on Minor US Holidays?

If public schools or government functions are shut down on a holiday, that doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t be able to utilize childcare.

Federal holidays that the government and schools are likely closed but most daycares are OPEN include:

  • Martin Luther King Day
  • President’s Day
  • Columbus Day/Native American Day
  • Veteran’s Day

Keep in mind that if the daycare is closely associated with or part of a school system or government entity (i. e. it is located on a military base, is part of a school-based preschool, is a childcare associated with a college or university) it may be closed on these “minor” holidays.

Again, ask your daycare when you enroll if you can see a holiday schedule ahead of time to plan accordingly.

Other Holidays & Special Considerations

Other special considerations to be made are days when daycare may close early or be closed for a religious holiday.

For example, daycares may close two to four hours early on Christmas Eve, Thanksgiving Eve, or New Year’s Eve.

Some daycares may close entirely on those days.

Also, it is common for daycares and preschools to be a part of religious institutions.

In those cases, daycare may not be available on days such as Good Friday, All Saints Day, Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur, or the 1st day of Ramadan.

How to Find Childcare When Daycare is Closed for a Holiday

When choosing a daycare or preschool, it is important to consider the days that it will be closed and whether those closures would cause considerable challenges for your family.

For example, if you work in healthcare or the hospitality industry your child attending a religious based daycare could result in more days of daycare being closed that you are required to work.

Even still, many essential workers have to work on Christmas or Thanksgiving — days when almost all daycares are closed.

So what are your holiday childcare options?

  • Request the day off well in advance or to work from home. In many businesses, you can request vacation time/time off several weeks or even months in advance. As soon as your child starts at a daycare, request a printed or digital version of the calendar with all closures denoted so that you can request those days off or as work from home days before others do.
  • Coordinate with the other parent. If both parents are in jobs that require holiday work, try to alternate holidays so that one of you is off and available to be home with a little one whenever the other is scheduled to work, and daycare is closed. If you are in a situation where you are sharing custody with the other parent, try to request to work the holidays that you are not scheduled to have physical custody that year.
  • Network. There may be stay-at home parents in your neighborhood, community, church group, etc. that are able and willing to provide childcare once or twice a year that you need it. You can also talk with other parents of children at your daycare who may not be required to work holidays and be able to plan for them to watch your child on a holiday. This may be a mutually beneficial plan because it provides the other child who is home from daycare with a playmate.
  • Plan holiday family time. Ask a family member to watch your child for the day. If there is a grandparent, aunt, uncle, cousin, or God parent who lives near you, they will probably jump at the chance to spend quality time with your child on a special day.
  • Have a trusted nanny or babysitter on standby. Possibilities here may include utilizing/sharing the nanny of another family or having a college student who is off school on all the holidays babysit.
  • Drop-In Childcare. Find another daycare in the area that is open on the holidays and inquire about the possibility of bringing your child to drop in just on those holidays. It is likely that many of the children enrolled full-time there will be at home with their families, allowing space for your child for the single day of care that is needed.

Wrapping Up

Every parent wants to spend all the special holiday moments with their children.

However, due to work demands of certain industries and careers, that is not always possible.

Childcare providers also want, need, and deserve to spend holiday time with their families so daycare closures on holidays are to be expected.

There are a few simple steps parents can take to prevent a last-minute panicked search for childcare on a holiday.

Being informed of your daycare’s scheduled closures from the day your child is first enrolled and having a plan for those days is key.

Having strong relationships and good communication with your spouse/co-parent, family members, and other parents in your community is another important factor when it comes to holiday childcare.

If you are well prepared and consider multiple options for holiday childcare, you and your child will have happy and low-stress holidays.

For more, check out:

  • Are daycares open on weekends?
  • What are normal operating hours for most daycares?
  • Is daycare 1, 2, or 3 days a week a good idea?

Hope this helps!

Most Texas child care providers that closed due to COVID-19 have reopened

Coronavirus in Texas

Although child care providers have mostly reopened, 8% have closed permanently since the start of the pandemic — and 57% of Texas counties still qualify as child care deserts.

by Emily Hernandez and Kalley Huang

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As the COVID-19 pandemic surged through the United States in early 2020, Phyllis Montoya watched the children leave her Pflugerville home-based day care facility one by one.

“The kids left,” Montoya said. “Either parents were worried or parents were changing [working] conditions where they could be home. … A lot of people were scared.”

Montoya, who has run Kid’s Castle Family Daycare and Preschool in the Austin suburb for 15 years, said it has a capacity of 12 kids, but even after parents started coming back to her seeking child care, she’s kept her head count to half of what it was before the pandemic.

“I could fill up, but I feel like I have a responsibility to the parents, especially during the deepest part of [the pandemic] where we were so terrified, to keep my babies safe,” Montoya said. “So in order to do that, I had to have really a lot of trust with my parents that we were both going to stay within guidelines.”

In April 2020, after Gov. Greg Abbott issued a stay-at-home order in response to the pandemic, more than a quarter of licensed child care operations in Texas temporarily closed.

Although Abbott lifted the order for all child care services about a month later, more service providers continued to close temporarily, with the number of operations providing care reaching a pandemic low in May 2020.

First: Phyllis Montoya prepares the children’s lunches at Kid’s Castle Family Daycare. Last: A child sits on a bookshelf during playtime.


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Lauren Witte/The Texas Tribune

Since then, the providers that have survived the tumult of the past two years have mostly reopened. Here is a look at how COVID-19 has impacted child care in Texas and how the state was faring as of January, when the latest Health and Human Services numbers were made available.

In May 2020, almost 37% of child care operations temporarily closed

Throughout 2019 and into the beginning of 2020, about 95% of licensed child care operations in the state were open and providing care. In May 2020, less than two-thirds were open — about 10,500 operations statewide.

Child care providers resumed care in subsequent months, but some temporary closures became permanent. As of January, the number of licensed operations has declined by about 8% from May 2020. So although about 97% of operations are open again, there are fewer licensed child care providers now than before the pandemic.

Montoya closed her day care temporarily for two weeks at the beginning of the pandemic. Once she reopened, she said she experienced a “roller coaster” in trying to keep her business afloat. At times, she said, she was caring for only two or three children.

“I can see why a lot of day care providers are closing because they just can’t pay the bills,” Montoya said. “And I know this is the most challenging financially it’s been for me in the whole history of me being a child care provider. It’s just the burden and the stress and fear of losing even one more child that could push me over the edge to where I can’t stay open.”

The number of home-based child care businesses like Montoya’s has declined by about 15% since January 2020. Child care homes, which currently provide about 5% of available child care slots in the state, are based in the provider’s home and are permitted to care for between three and 12 children. Child care centers, which provide the other 95% of available slots, can offer care for more than 13 children at a location other than the provider’s home.

The shortage of day care openings forced many parents to search for alternatives such as nannying or babysitting services. Michelle LaRowe, executive director of nanny referral agency Morningside Nannies in Houston, said that during the peak of the omicron surge in January, she saw a record number of parents looking for a nanny and a record shortage of nannies.

“I can’t believe the number of calls we get every day for families looking for care and desperate for care and have looked on their own and haven’t found anything,” LaRowe said. “Because when [day cares] close down for [a COVID-19] exposure, it’s really been a challenge for working families.”

LaRowe said in 25 years of working in child care, she’s never seen such a disparity between families seeking nannies and nannies seeking jobs. As her inquiries for nannies doubled, she said applications from people seeking nanny jobs with her agency decreased by three-quarters between November and late January.

Because working in someone’s home can bring a risk of COVID-19 exposure — and because many parents don’t know how long they’ll need child care help as employers and schools change COVID policies — many nannies have opted for gig economy jobs like driving for Uber, she said.

After closing for two weeks at the beginning of the pandemic, Montoya says she has seen the number of children at her daycare fluctuate — sometimes she has only two children in her care.


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Lauren Witte/The Texas Tribune

Before- and after-school programs took more than a year to reopen fully

Pandemic closures have impacted providers across the child care industry — not only those caring for children under 5. Before- and after-school programs were hit harder by closures than any other type of child care operation. From May to August 2020, all but roughly 10% of these programs closed temporarily.

Although before- and after-school programs started to reopen at the beginning of the 2020-21 school year, 16% of them remained closed at the end of the school year. As of January, virtually all licensed programs have reopened, but Texas has nearly 100 fewer programs than it did before the pandemic.

The impact of child care shortages has varied across Texas

For some areas, the impacts have lasted longer and been felt more profoundly — especially in so-called child care deserts, where there are three times more children under 5 than licensed slots in child care operations — as defined by Children at Risk, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization based in Texas.

Before the pandemic, between child care centers and home day cares in the state, there were more than 1.1 million licensed slots for about 2 million children under 5. In January 2020, 150 of the state’s 254 counties — 59% — met the criteria for being a child care desert. Of those, 138 had at least three times more children under 5 than licensed seats in open operations and 12 had no operations at all.

By May 2020, about a half of all centers and a fifth of all homes had temporarily closed as the pandemic took hold, leaving less than 660,000 slots available.

By the beginning of this year, the number of slots had returned close to pre-pandemic levels, with 145 counties meeting the criteria for being a child care desert.

Relief money is coming for child care providers

Texas has received billions in federal aid for child care providers since the beginning of the pandemic, starting with $371 million from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act passed in March 2020.

Children work on letter puzzles at Kid’s Castle Family Daycare.


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Lauren Witte/The Texas Tribune

Since then, the federal government allocated an additional $1.1 billion to Texas child care providers through the 2021 Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, which was signed into law in December 2020. About half of that $1.1 billion has already been sent to 9,456 Texas child care providers and is set to be fully distributed by this fall, said Angela Woellner, a Texas Workforce Commission spokesperson.

Texas will distribute another $2.45 billion to child care providers through the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which went into effect last March. In February, The Workforce Commission approved giving an additional billion dollars of federal money to the state’s child care providers, Woellner said.

Eligible child care operations must be licensed or registered with the state as of Feb. 28 and either actively offering child care services when they submit an application or have plans to reopen within 30 days if they closed temporarily due to a COVID-19-related hardship.

Woellner said the commission plans to send application invitations to about 12,000 eligible child care providers by the end of the month; the application deadline is May 31. The commission plans to approve applications and begin sending money to applicants within a week and will distribute the money over the next year, she said.

Child care options will be scarce after the pandemic

Driving to work before dawn last winter, Valerie Norris heard an NPR report about a terrible disease spreading in China — a pandemic, people were starting to call it. It sounded sad but very far from Rocky River, Ohio, where she’d led the Rockport Early Childhood Center for 34 years.

This story also appeared in USA Today

A few weeks later, she knew better.

It was still dark on the chilly morning of March 13 when Norris pulled into the big parking lot at the Rockport United Methodist Church, where her school was based. She always arrived first to unlock the doors.

A decorated door in the now closed Rockport Early Childhood Center in Rocky River, Ohio. Credit: Valerie Norris

Child artwork covered the walls in the quiet hallway. Brightly decorated doors said things like “Ready! For a colorful year.” She knew it was the last morning she’d walk down that hallway for a while. She didn’t imagine it was the beginning of the end of her center, of her career, of the community she had worked so hard to build.

“We’ve weathered storms before,” Norris, 61, said of her center, located in a well-to-do suburb about 10 miles west of Cleveland. “But this one is a tsunami.”

By August, the doors had closed for good.

“We’re grieving,” she said. “I know it doesn’t hold a candle to the loss of life that’s happening in our country, but the pandemic yielded losses of so many sorts. ”

Norris is adamant that no one see her as a victim. She said she earned a good salary (about $50,000 annually) doing work she loved. She does not want to lament that unemployment pays only half what she made, or that after providing 30 steady jobs and 80 reliable child care slots in her community for three decades, she’s now wondering what to do with herself. She wants to concentrate on the “heart of the matter” — the children, the parents and the teachers.

Valerie Norris, now 61, helps a child holding a crayon at one of her first jobs as an early childhood teacher in Cleveland, Ohio. Norris went on to become the director of a child care center that closed permanently due to the pandemic. Credit: Valerie Norris

And she wants to know: “Could it have been avoidable? Could some sort of safety net have been offered to sustain us, to fortify us?”

Many thousands of child care providers caught in the same tsunami that knocked out Rockport are asking the same questions, as are many thousands more who have stayed open, but barely. All of them are caught in the unworkable math of pandemic child care: Too few tuition-paying children to support the needed staff. Too many new expenses required to keep the doors open safely. Too few loans and grants available to help bridge the gap for the mostly female small business owners who provide the bulk of the nation’s child care.

These effects have been especially stark in communities of color. Child care workers are disproportionately women of color, thousands of whom have continued working with minimal protection while many thousands more lost their jobs. Affordable, quality child care was already scarce in Latinx and Native communities, according to research on child care deserts by the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank. And while less likely to live in child care deserts, median-income Black families already pay a larger share of their income on child care than other groups, the center found.

Publicly funded programs for those living in poverty are more likely to survive the current storm, but there aren’t enough of those programs to serve everyone who needs them. And closures in the private sector have left many families without safe child care options. For families of color, a disproportionate number of whom are headed by essential workers or single parents, that problem was only compounded.

“We’re supposed to be one of the most powerful and greatest countries in the world, and we can’t even figure out how to make child care affordable or available in a pandemic … It’s been embarrassing as a U.S. citizen.”

Elizabeth Remsen, parent

Though an exact count of closures is still not possible, 166,800 fewer people were working in child care in December 2020 than had been in those jobs in December 2019, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Even before the pandemic, as many as 2.7 million children under age 6 may have needed child care and not had a spot, according to an analysis of 25 states by the Bipartisan Policy Center. (Researchers at the center intended to calculate the gap for all 50 states, but their work was disrupted by the pandemic. ) Experts expect the gap after the pandemic to be even wider.

Among child care centers that have remained open, 81 percent enroll fewer kids today — half as many in some states — than they did pre-pandemic, according to a survey of more than 6,000 providers conducted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a professional organization for early educators. As vaccines make it into arms, experts expect enrollment to increase, but it’s unclear how quickly that will happen since it is also unclear how many child care spots will still be available.

To survive with fewer tuition-paying families and expensive new pandemic safety guidelines, 42 percent of child care providers surveyed by NAEYC in November had taken on personal debt, often on credit cards. Providers say they don’t know how long they can hold on.

Mary De La Rosa, shown her with students at her home-based child care before the pandemic, closed her business during the pandemic and does not expect to reopen. Photo Mary De La Rosa

Child care advocates argue that the pandemic is simply exposing problems that have existed for decades.

“The market in child care doesn’t work,” said Lauren Hogan, managing director of policy at NAEYC. “We don’t ask parents to pay for fourth grade one child at a time.”

Since March, the federal government has allocated only a fraction — about a quarter — of the $50 billion in direct-to-child care relief funding that industry advocates say is needed. The $3.5 billion included in the March 2020 coronavirus aid package was estimated to cover the cost of just 30 percent of child care slots for one month, according to the Center for American Progress. The latest relief bill, passed in December, included an additional $10 billion.

Private child care providers were eligible for the Paycheck Protection Program, but less than 6 percent of them were granted PPP loans, according to the Bipartisan Policy Center. (It is not yet clear how many applied.) Of the $2. 3 billion given to child care (less than 1 percent of the total distribution), 89 percent of the loans were for less than $150,000, the policy center reported.

State assistance has also been scarce.

“As terrible as the pandemic is, it has accelerated the effort we’ve been working on to shine the light on how difficult it is for families to find quality care.”

Charlie Joughin, First Five Years Fund

President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, released on Jan. 14, calls for a $25 billion emergency stabilization fund that would cover child care providers’ pandemic-associated costs, including payroll. The plan would also add $15 billion in child care assistance for families, with the aim of helping workers, especially women, return to their jobs and increasing pay for child care providers. If that money came through, the overall total in federal relief would just surpass the $50 billion advocates have been calling for.

In the long term, some experts warn, even that won’t be enough for communities that have already been struggling.

“That is a starting point,” said William Dunbar, vice president of policy for the National Black Child Development Institute, of the hoped-for new funds. “That funds the industry correctly, which has been vastly underfunded. But it’s not an equalizer for Black families.”

Some school-age children take a reading break at a Small Wonders School center in Portland, Oregon. When the school re-opened with fewer toddlers and preschoolers, co-owner Allison Morton added a program for elementary school children. Credit: Allison Morton

Still, there’s cautious optimism among experts that the country’s child care crisis, which has been thrust into public view by the pandemic, could force real change.

“As terrible as the pandemic is, it has accelerated the effort we’ve been working on to shine the light on how difficult it is for families to find quality care,” said Charlie Joughin, spokesperson for the First Five Years Fund, which advocates for pro-child care policies in Washington.

Elizabeth Remsen, 34, a mother of three in Concord, New Hampshire, hopes he’s right. One of the 21.5 million American workers with children under age 6, she can afford only a few hours of child care four days a week for her youngest, who is 5.

Remsen earns less than $60,000 a year, and both her stimulus checks have gone to child care. She said she could use some help.

“We’re supposed to be one of the most powerful and greatest countries in the world, and we can’t even figure out how to make child care affordable or available in a pandemic without a parent or both parents sacrificing something they’ve worked for,” said Remsen, who works full-time and has two older children in remote learning. “It’s been embarrassing as a U.S. citizen.”

Related: It’s impossibly hard to be a baby or toddler in some parts of the country

Many of the child care businesses that closed in 2020 won’t be reopening no matter what the federal government offers.

Mary De La Rosa, 38, has been a home-based provider in Los Angeles for 17 years. She applied to all the loan programs she could find. Her husband, an accountant, helped her make sure everything was in order. They calculated she was eligible for a $26,000 loan under the Paycheck Protection Program. She planned to keep paying herself and her assistants while building an outdoor classroom in her backyard that would allow her to keep serving her 14 enrolled children safely.

Months into the pandemic, a girl plays with natural materials on a sunny day at her child care center in Concord, New Hampshire. Credit: MaryLou Beaver

An email confirmed that her application had been received. After that, she heard nothing. Without any help to stay open, De La Rosa let her license lapse and expects to stay closed permanently. She said she knows a lot of other teachers who also plan to quit for good in part because of how little respected they’ve felt by the lack of assistance.

“It’s honestly been really disheartening,” she said.

Many providers think nobody in power cares about their work.

Tiffany Pearsall is the director of a small center in Carson, Washington, that has managed, barely, to stay open. She’s frustrated by the limits placed on the assistance that has been offered to child care providers.

“It’s like: ‘I can’t just give you money like we’ve given other industries. You’d abuse that.’ Abuse what, man?” Pearsall said, her voice rising. “This idea that care providers can’t be trusted to make decisions about their businesses. I’m just … I’m over it. I’m done.”

Related: Five reasons reopening will not be enough to save many child care centers

Pearsall received a PPP loan that helped her center bridge its closure (half of March and all of April), and since her center is a nonprofit, she has been able to solicit direct donations, which have kept her going. Still, she’s been operating at a loss since the center reopened in May.

“Looking ahead, every decision is a hard decision,” she said. “Do I buy glue sticks this week, or do I make sure that if someone is sick, we can go into overtime and afford that? It’s not a way to live. It’s not a way to operate and still be an industry at the end of the day.”

There is only so much any center can charge and still attract enough parents who can afford to pay. The biggest limiting factor is the child-to-staff ratio. For the most part, those ratios must be low to meet safety and quality requirements imposed by state governments. That means just a few families are covering a given teacher’s salary, plus the rent for the facility, the supplies for the school, a cleaning service, the director’s salary and any other overhead costs.

One month, maybe two, of under-enrollment is one thing. Some centers and even some home-based child care providers can survive that. But enrollment plummeting off a pandemic cliff?

Natalie Galbraith, the director and co-owner of one of the Small Wonders School centers in Portland, Oregon, gets ready for the school day in a newly partitioned classroom that has been re-designed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Credit: Allison Morton

“We can make it until March this way,” said Allison Morton in early January. She is the director of Small Wonders School, a two-facility child care program in Portland, Oregon, that used to enroll about 190 children. Morton closed in March, laid off staff and applied for loans, which she and her co-owners received. Small Wonders reopened in June, with Morton having used much of her reserves to split the classrooms in half and outfit teachers with personal protective equipment.

“I think we got the last Plexiglas in the state at that point,” Morton joked. In total, she spent about $16,000 on facility updates to meet pandemic health guidelines.

$50 billion in direct federal relief is needed to save child care, according to advocates

The school is still short 40 kids, and without those tuition dollars the business continues to lose money. In early February, the school received a second small PPP loan, which will allow Morton to pay herself for the first time in months.

At the same time, she’s expanded her scholarship program — from two kids to 11 kids — because she feels compelled to help front-line workers who can’t afford her fees but who had lost their other child care arrangements. (In some cases, that included public school, which in Portland has been closed to in-person learning since March.)

State child care subsidies usually do not cover families earning more than about $40,000 a year, on average, according to data gathered by the National Women’s Law Center, even though many families in that income range cannot afford private care. When government assistance is provided, it often covers just half the fees at a private center like Small Wonders.

Related: Broken system — Child care subsidies ensure low quality, limit access

“Ultimately the programs that are the highest quality are sought out by families of means,” said Jamie Bonczyk, who ran the nonprofit Hopkins Early Learning Center in Minnesota until it closed on Dec. 18.

Helping families who could not afford tuition to attend the center had been a line item in the Hopkins budget since its inception in 1981. The center served 107 kids before the pandemic and was able to help about 11 who couldn’t afford tuition. Bonczyk said she doesn’t think it’s fair that high-quality early childhood care is mostly limited to those with the ability to pay deposits and tuition fees that often match or exceed those of state colleges.

A boy places glass beads along a spiral in an activity that helps with fine motor control at The Children’s Place, an open center in Concord, New Hampshire. Credit: MaryLou Beaver

“Unless you have a funding stream that holds spots, you end up serving a disproportionate number of white children just because that’s what keeps the doors open,” she said.

But without stable government funding, Bonczyk and others said private child care providers were limited in their ability to change the status quo.

“Money,” said Cori Berg, a center director in Dallas. “Money is what’s needed.”

Berg’s center, the Hope Day School, has stayed open but has been bleeding money since mid-March, when its enrollment plummeted. “Not the $30,000 we were losing at the beginning,” Berg said in January. But with the school enrolling 47 students at that point, rather than the 80 it served before the pandemic, Berg estimated it was losing about $6,000 a month.

81 percent of open child care providers enroll fewer kids today than they did pre-pandemic

After a tuition hike last fall, Hope Day School parents now pay between $1,190 and $1,380 per month depending on the age of their child, which is within the price range of many larger centers in urban areas. And yet, it isn’t enough to cover teacher salaries comparable to those of K-12 teachers. Berg is able to offer $10.50 an hour to entry-level teachers and $12.60 an hour to lead teachers. She knows some of her teachers, a portion of whom are single mothers, struggle to afford food and pay rent.

“It shouldn’t be this way,” she wrote in an email. “And we’re a center that serves high-income families!”

Child care workers like those employed by Berg earn an average of $24,230 a year. More than half (53 percent) are eligible for some form of government benefit.

Related: Her child care center was already on the brink — then coronavirus struck

Job listings for child care positions have been back up to near-normal levels since the fall, according to Chris Herbst, an associate professor in the school of public affairs at Arizona State University. Normally, that would be a sign of a healthy industry, he said. But child care providers interviewed for this story said hiring had become exceedingly difficult. That corresponds with NAEYC’s finding that 69 percent of providers surveyed in November said recruiting and retaining staff is harder now than it was before the pandemic.

A teachers leads a card game with older children at The Children’s Place, a center in Concord, New Hampshire that reopened in the fall of 2020 and has since then continued to operate under pandemic conditions. Credit: MaryLou Beaver

MaryLou Beaver, who runs a center in Concord, New Hampshire called The Children’s Place, has two unstaffed classrooms that she thinks she could fill with children if only she could find teachers.

“No one has applied who was qualified,” Beaver said. “We’re not raising new [teachers] and we’re not bringing new ones into the field.”

She thinks the reason centers are open at all is because providers, nearly all of whom are women, are trying to help the families who depend on them.

“I mean, if we didn’t have people like that, think of where the kids would be,” she said. “But, why do we have to have people like that? Why isn’t child care recognized for what it is, and the need and the necessity of it?”

166,800 fewer people were working in child care in December 2020 than had been in those jobs in December 2019

Back in Ohio, Norris, the former director of the Rockport Early Childhood Center, is working on her resume for the first time since the 1980s. On the center’s last open day, the toddler teachers had a surprise for Norris — they’d taught the kids to sing “The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow.” She still has the video of the performance and she’s trying to hold on to the message. Her favorite quote, by Kahlil Gibran, adorns her new resume: “Work is love made visible.”

At her shuttered center, though, there’s not much left to see. The simple cinder block classrooms with their brightly colored accent walls are empty. The playground, backing onto a city park above the green banks of the Rocky River, is quiet.

“I feel like it’s lip service — when they talk about how we care for children as a society,” she said of policymakers and politicians. “They don’t put their money where their mouth is.”

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Daycares are shutting down and parents are ‘tired of being tired’


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Jasmine Moorman is having a difficult week.

The single mother of five is trying to sort out a logistical mess. She has to take her three oldest children to and from school because their bus driver is out, making her late to her job administering Covid-19 tests.

Her sons stay late at an after-school program, so she can pick them up after work. But her daughter isn’t old enough to be eligible for the program, and needs to be taken home earlier — while Moorman is supposed to be at work. She had to scramble to find a family member to help out, and is crossing her fingers that the bus driver will be back soon.

Another complication: Her two younger children aren’t old enough to go to school. A nearby daycare is dealing with its own staffing issues and isn’t accepting more children at the moment. For now, Moorman’s grandmother is caring for them, but she’s getting older and taking care of two young kids is hard work.

For some working parents, Omicron feels like a return to early pandemic days. For others, it’s creating new challenges.

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Moorman, who lives in Owensboro, Kentucky, is dealing with all this while recovering from a breakthrough case of Covid-19 herself. She’s concerned about what the future will hold.

“I am very worried that [remote school] would be a possibility again,” she said. “Last school year was a terrible struggle.” Moorman had been on maternity leave at the time, so she didn’t have to worry about going into work. Now the situation is different. “If it happens this time, I’m not really sure what the outcome would be.”

Nearly two years into the pandemic, working parents are wondering how much more they can take.

For some, the latest surge caused by the highly contagious Omicron variant is creating a whole new set of unexpected struggles. For others it means a sudden return to early pandemic conditions, such as working from home while helping kids with remote learning, this time after months of stress.

The domino effect is real — and potentially damaging to the economic recovery. Just one bus driver calling out sick can set off a series of consequences that disrupts work for several people.

Some workers may throw in the towel and leave the workforce because of this latest hurdle, potentially slowing the country’s jobs recovery.

“A lot of workers have withdrawn from the labor market,” said David Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an economist with Bloomberg Economics. “It’s just stunningly widespread.”

More than four million Americans quit their jobs in October, a slight decrease from the record 4. 4 million in September. (Many of these workers left their jobs for better prospects elsewhere, but the pandemic has also brought on a lot of early retirement of people who won’t return to work.)

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There are plenty of reasons to avoid work if you can. People may be afraid of exposure to unmasked or hostile customers, have a vulnerable dependent who could get seriously ill from Covid or feel pushed to quit because of staffing shortages at their own jobs that make workloads unbearable.

And for parents, a sudden lack of access to childcare poses a huge burden.

Even before the pandemic “many parents struggled with finding affordable, high quality childcare,” said Elise Gould, senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, adding that “parents, particularly women, oftentimes left the labor force” because of a lack of childcare. “Omicron has exacerbated that.”

Surges caused by variants like Omicron and Delta have “made it harder for parents to stay in the labor market or have a full-time job in the labor market, because there’s so much unknown,” Gould added.

It’s too soon for Omicron’s impact to appear in the government’s employment data, she added. But if past is precedent, the current spike in cases will mean a weaker January jobs report.

The Delta surge brought “a pretty big deceleration in the kinds of job gains that we had seen earlier in the summer,” she noted. “Recovery slowed measurably.” With Omicron, “it certainly will be the case that that it will cause a hit to the labor market.”

Terrence Davenport’s two-year-old daughter was in daycare throughout the pandemic. Then Omicron hit.

A rash of cases among daycare workers and children meant Davenport’s daughter has had to stay home for most of the year so far. While his wife is at work and their seven-year-old son is at school, Davenport balances hob responsibilities with caring for and entertaining their daughter — meaning lots of breaks for cartoons, coloring books and potty training.

“Normally what I do is keep her in my office … and tell her to bring all her toys in to play while I try to stay focused on work,” he said. “It’s consistent attention to her, and keeping her busy.”

Davenport, who lives in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, works for a global IT consulting firm that has been understanding, he said. But the current setup is not sustainable. “I can’t be on a call with a two-year-old crying in my ear,” he said. Davenport worries he won’t be able to keep up with work while caring for her, much less be considered for new positions or promotions.

If their daughter has to stay home for weeks, the family will have to make tough decisions. Davenport is the primary breadwinner, so he and his wife have discussed the possibility of her working part-time or leaving her job entirely, he said.

Childcare jobs are down compared to before the pandemic.

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Davenport’s and Moorman’s struggling daycare centers are representative of a broader problem.

Government data shows that employment in the child care industry is down 10% compared to February 2020, noted Jessica Brown, assistant professor of economics at the Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. In all other industries combined, she noted, jobs are down about 2.4%.

“With the Omicron surge, a lot of childcare centers were already understaffed, and so they don’t have the people to cover when employees are absent,” she said.

While daycare centers struggle to maintain staff, many schools are abruptly switching to remote learning as cases rise.

Apart from getting Covid and struggling with childcare, parents have to fear their kids getting sick, along with the threat of multiple quarantine periods.

When Tori Martinez’s 11-year-old daughter tested postive for Covid-19 last week, Martinez assumed it would be only a matter of time before other members of her household would test positive.

She decided to stay away from work as much as possible for a few days, and keep her son home from school while her daughter quarantined in a separate room, and her husband worked remotely, also at home.

Martinez, her husband and their son — all vaccinated, like the couple’s daughter — kept getting tested, anticipating another positive result. But the three remained negative.

It’s a mixed blessing, because now Martinez fears that her family will once again have to go into lockdown if one of them tests positive from another exposure.

“There’s been a couple of moments that I looked at my husband and I just said, I’m so tired of being tired,” Martinez said. “We all keep trying to make the best out of the circumstances,” she added. “But 22 months is a really long time to make the best out of the circumstances.”

The pandemic has left Martinez, like so many parents, completely exhausted.

“Even when you know you’re doing the right thing, and you’re making good and healthy choices and trying to get over this hump … it doesn’t make it any less heartbreaking.”

— CNN Business’s Anneken Tappe contributed to this report.

‘Really demoralizing and operationally very, very hard’: Child-care providers try to stay open in COVID surge

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At the Ellis Early Learning center, Ian, 4, worked with his teacher, Matt Wallace. Child care providers are trying to stay open amid the state’s COVID surge but they’re struggling.
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Already on Monday, some child-care centers were struggling. In Chelmsford, Springboard Schools center notified parents mid-afternoon that classrooms would close for the rest of the week due to known positive tests and potential exposures. Otherwise, more than 80 percent of students and staff would need to quarantine.

Related: ER providers are ‘overwhelmed’ as schools grapple with reopening amid Omicron surge

At Ellis, the increased contagiousness of the recent COVID mutation became clear in December, Cook said, when three classrooms experienced what appeared to be spread among students within them, totaling about 10 infections. Previously the center had prided itself on seeing no transmission in school.

One Ellis mother last week pulled her infant daughter out of the school, saying she couldn’t handle the off-and-on closures. “They’re either going to have to do a nanny or maybe someone’s going to leave the workforce,” Cook said. She asked families to test children before returning to the school, but she couldn’t require it as many of her families come from low-income households and may struggle to access testing.

Infections among children under 5 doubled in December, state data show, from 2,000 cases in the two weeks before Dec. 2 to 4,100 cases in the two weeks before Dec. 23. That rise tracks with an overall increase in cases among all ages in Massachusetts and in students and staff in schools serving kindergarten through 12th grade. Schools are also bracing for chaos as they reopen this week.

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But early education providers have fewer tools than K-12 schools to handle COVID. Children under 5 aren’t eligible for vaccination. Infants and young toddlers don’t wear masks. Naps and meals are unmasked. And it’s impossible to expect young kids to socially distance. When someone tests positive, programs often have to close an entire classroom, notify the classmates’ parents that they were exposed to COVID, and send them home to quarantine for five to seven days, until they can be tested and see if symptoms arise.

Related: As COVID rates soar, Mass. schools brace for a chaotic January — and lots of testing

K-12 schools in Massachusetts have praised the state’s “test and stay” program that allows students exposed to COVID at school to keep attending class if they test negative on a rapid test every day. That initiative has been credited with keeping large numbers of children in school and was recently touted by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a model for the rest of the country.

But the state doesn’t offer “test and stay” to early education providers due to logistics.

“There would be many challenges in implementing a test and stay type of program in the 5,000-plus private day care businesses across the state, many of which are run from private homes,” said a spokeswoman for the Department of Early Education and Care.

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The department, together with the nonprofit Neighborhood Villages, offers free pooled testing of asymptomatic early education staff and children age 2 and older, but so far only about 6.4 percent of providers, or 320 organizations, have signed on to the initiative. Since Thanksgiving, more programs have enrolled due to increased awareness and the COVID surge, Neighborhood Villages spokeswoman Emalie Gainey said.

The state also offers free COVID drive-through testing for child-care workers and families at eight locations. The state announced Wednesday that early childhood centers are among the entities eligible to purchase rapid tests at state-negotiated prices ranging from $5 to $26 per test through a state contract.

Related: ‘Oppressive’ and ‘unbelievable’: Long testing lines frustrate Mass. residents and obscure COVID surge reality

Dr. David Hamer, a Boston University professor of global health and medicine, said test and stay policies could work “just as well” in early education as they do in K-12 settings, but the challenge is availability.

“If we can have a better supply and a better, more reasonable cost per test,” Hamer said, “we’d be able to use that as an effective control measure to try and prevent outbreaks in preschools.”

But because children are less likely to show COVID symptoms, keeping early education providers open will require asymptomatic testing as well, he said. Otherwise, “you could have an explosion on your hands.”

Experts say young children have a very low chance of contracting severe illness from COVID. But Dr. Julia Koehler, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and an infectious disease clinician, cautioned that doctors still don’t know the long-term effects of infections in young children. She called for more state assistance to child-care providers in low-income communities to ensure adequate testing, ventilation, and air filtration.

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“The state needs to be providing day care and child-care facilities, as well as families, with the information and the resources they need to optimize the multiple layers of protection for children,” Koehler said in an e-mail. “This is currently vastly insufficient especially in frontline communities that have the highest infection and death burdens and the lowest vaccination rates.”

Related: Hospitals prepare for more children, but so far, few are getting very sick from Omicron

Emmanuel had a snack with his teacher, Colleen Donovan. Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff

Early childhood advocates also called for the state to continue distributing federal pandemic relief payments to providers through June 2023, then permanently increase government funding for early education, which will allow centers to boost wages and retain workers, making services more reliable for parents.

“If [the state] can’t make those investments, teachers will continue to leave the field and families will be locked out of the care solutions that they depend on in order to go to work,” said Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, co-president of Neighborhood Villages, a nonprofit that provides services to five Boston-based providers.

Mary Pat Reed, director of Panda Bilingual Childcare in Cambridge, which charges $2,230 to $2,840 for full-time care per month depending on the child’s age, asked all families to test their children just before returning on Monday. She hasn’t had many issues with COVID so far this school year, as her families tended to work from home and stayed cautious for their unvaccinated children.

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“I’m one of the luckier schools,” Reed said. Still, “We’re not going to be naïve and say, ‘It’s not going to happen here.’”

One father whose daughter attends Panda said he was thankful the center was requiring COVID tests for kids to return. Dennis Jen, a software developer in Cambridge, said he wants to protect his 3-year-old daughter, Dahlia, but also believes she will likely contract COVID at some point.

“It’s hard because as a parent, you want to keep your child safe, but at the same time you want your child to engage with other kids and develop socially,” Jen said. “And also, you yourself have to work.”

Globe staff writer Stephanie Ebbert contributed to this report.

Naomi Martin can be reached at [email protected]. Tiana Woodard is a Report for America corps member covering Black neighborhoods. She can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter at @tianarochon.

Over a year after child-care centers reopened, families still struggle

Over a year after daycares, preschools and child-care centers started reopening, U. S. parents and providers are still struggling to find a new normal. 

For Seattle-based Patty Liu, that means continuing her job hunt. Liu, a 38-year-old mother of two boys, has spent the last 15 months unemployed. Liu had started a new job at an environmental consulting firm in January 2020, but it didn’t last long. In March, her child-care provider temporarily shut down and two weeks later, she was let go while trying to juggle working full-time and caring for her sons. 

When she was laid off, Liu became a full-time caregiver, which turned out to be an entirely new challenge. 

By fall 2020, Liu’s child-care options had expanded. Her eldest son went back to preschool full-time and she enrolled her youngest in daycare three days a week. “We were down in income, so we couldn’t actually afford full-time care, but mentally, I needed a break,” Liu says.

She also needed the time to continue her job search, write cover letters, submit resumes and schedule interviews. She has been consistently looking for a new job since.  “Even with the kids back in school, I just really felt like I didn’t have enough time to do everything,” Liu says.

She’s hopeful that she’ll find something soon, especially since she expects schools to be full-time this fall. But if they’re not, that could mean continuing to put her career plans on hold.

Liu is just one of the millions of parents whose child-care options have been affected by the pandemic. Overall, child care has become more scarce and more expensive since the pandemic started, which is wreaking havoc on families’ finances and parents’ career ambitions.

Here’s a look at what’s happening and the current solutions on the table. 

Child-care costs have increased during the pandemic

Although Liu and her husband, Alex Salkin, are down to a single income, the couple was able to catch a break on child-care costs. 

The family’s monthly child-care bill actually dropped during the pandemic, in part because her children only returned part-time, but also because her youngest son moved out of infant care, which is more expensive. Liu and her husband used to pay $2,500 a month for full-time child care five days a week, but now they pay $1,720. 

Other families haven’t been so lucky. Across the country, 72% of families report paying more for child care now than before the pandemic, according to a Care.com survey of more than 3,000 U.S. parents who are all paying for professional child care for children under the age of 15. Daycare costs alone increased 87% during the pandemic, according to Care.com estimates based on September 2020 cost data from the Center for American Progress. 

And the vast majority of parents who are paying for child care are spending big. About 85% of parents surveyed say they spend 10% or more of their household income on child care. The Department of Health and Human Services categorizes child care as “affordable” when families spend less than 7% of their household income on it. 

Like Liu, many parents have employed cost-saving measures during the pandemic to bring down child-care costs — typically at the expense of their jobs. About 42% of parents surveyed by Care.com reported reducing hours at work, while 26% changed jobs and more than a quarter, 26%, left the workforce completely. 

It’s a difficult situation that experts predicted could happen due to a combination of factors, including higher operating costs among child-care providers, higher expenses for parents and increased scarcity since some child-care centers closed permanently. 

What this means for families

These rising costs and scarcity mean that for some families, professional child care is not an option anymore. In fact, 46% of parents surveyed by Care.com say it’s now more difficult to find child care at all, which has led to many parents staying at home to care for their kids. 

Around 7.6 million Americans say the main reason they’re still unemployed is because they are caring for children not in school or daycare, according to Household Pulse survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau for the week ending June 7.

Separately, and unrelated to employment, about 5. 5 million Americans reported their children were unable to attend daycare or another child-care arrangement during May because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Census Bureau found. That lack of child care directly affected parents’ ability to work, with about 1 in 4 taking unpaid time off, using vacation days or cutting work hours to care for their children.

“We still have a lot of folks really struggling to find child care, we have lots of folks that have left the workforce because of child care,” says Nina Perez, the early childhood national campaign director at parental advocacy group, MomsRising.

While Congress allocated more than $50 billion dollars to the child-care industry since the start of the pandemic — $40 billion alone in the American Rescue Plan passed in March — a lot of that money hasn’t been distributed yet, Perez says. 

Recent reports indicate that states may not have the staff or infrastructure to distribute those funds rapidly or equitably, which may mean many child-care providers opt to remain closed or at limited capacity until that funding comes through.  

As of December 2020, 10% of daycare centers and family child-care providers remained closed, according to the latest available data from Child Care Aware. And the number of daycare employees is still down about 13% as of May compared to the start of the pandemic, according to the St. Louis Fed. 

That puts parents in a tough spot, especially since many states have already halted the enhanced federal $300 unemployment benefits, Perez says. And while many parents have the advanced child tax credit payments coming, some families may have to find new providers as they head back into the office full-time because their previous providers remain closed or at limited capacity, she adds.  

“It’s really critical that we continue to provide a lifeline to families, to basically be able to weather the storm even as things reopen,” Perez says. “It’s not a light switch, it’s not something that all of a sudden families now can just continue going like they were before.”

More support is needed

Many parents and providers continue to struggle as they wait for help. Beyond emergency relief, Perez says the U.S. needs to make fundamental changes to the child-care system. She supports several of the proposals President Joe Biden outlined in his American Families Plan, including universal pre-K, caps on family child-care expenditures and increasing wages for child-care workers.

Biden’s $1.8 trillion proposal, however, hasn’t received much traction in Congress yet, largely due to the hefty price tag. There are also concerns about unintended consequences of Biden’s plan, including the fact that it would increase the nation’s debt substantially, according to Rachel Greszler, a Brookings research fellow, and Carrie Lukas, president of the Independent Women’s Forum.

Not all of the support needs to come from the government — employers can also help. Working mothers are about 32% less likely to leave their job if they have access to flexible, remote work arrangements, a recent survey from Catalyst found.

Many Americans want to see change happen: More than 6 out of 10 support increasing child-care availability; instating free, universal pre-kindergarten; and providing child-care assistance to middle-class families, according to a June poll of more than 3,000 voters and likely voters sponsored by Community Change Action and conducted by Lake Research Partners.  

“Most parents have had at least days — if not much longer stretches — when it was tiring or hard to be both professionally successful and a parent. I am no exception, and I have memories of things like giving a speech while my infant ate Cheerios at my foot,” Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., tells CNBC Make It. 

She believes parents and policymakers need to start thinking about child-care benefits and paid family leave as “universal benefits.” “We’re not debating providing better child-care support just for people with kids — we’re doing it for our economy,” Porter says. 

“If we don’t invest in these things, it will hold back our economy. And to be clear, it has been holding back our economy for decades,” she adds. “Who out there doesn’t want our country to have a strong, stable economy that’s globally competitive? To do that, we have to make some investments in people who do the work and that includes women and parents and others who care for children.”

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        The Zhurinichskaya school with an annex for a kindergarten was built as part of the federal project “The Modern Look of Rural Territories” of the state program of the Russian Federation “Integrated Development of Rural Territories”. The new building is designed for children not only from the village of Zhurinichi, but also from neighboring settlements – Mirny and Batagov.

        The event was attended by the Governor of the Bryansk Region Alexander Bogomaz, Chairman of the Bryansk Regional Duma Valentin Subbot, Senator of the Russian Federation Galina Solodun, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services Nikolai Alekseenko, Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Nikolai Shcheglov, director of the Alliance Limited Liability Company Dmitry Leonichev, deputies of the Governor of the Bryansk region, heads of executive authorities of the Bryansk region, deputies of the Bryansk regional Duma, heads of municipalities, residents of the Zhurinichsky settlement.

        Governor of the Bryansk Region Alexander Bogomaz addressed the audience with a welcoming speech:

        – Good afternoon, dear guys! Dear teachers, parents, guests and invitees!

        Today is a big holiday in our country – the Day of Knowledge. All schools from Vladivostok to Kaliningrad opened their doors to our future. And in Zhurinichi there is a double holiday. We became participants in a historic event – the opening of a new kindergarten school, which was built in pursuance of the instructions of the President of our country, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, as part of the implementation of the state program “Integrated Development of Rural Territories”.

        The most modern greenhouse complex was built in your village three years ago, four years ago we built a FAP here, and today we are commissioning a beautiful school – a kindergarten. Here I need to say words of gratitude to my deputy, Boris Ivanovich Gribanov, who gave a lot of effort and time to ensure that this school was included in the program. And of course, to the second deputy, Nikolai Kirillovich Simonenko, who supervised, and to the director of the Oryol company Alliance, which built the beautiful school, Dmitry Alekseevich Leonichev. 9 will study here0 schoolchildren and 40 preschoolers not only from the village of Zhurinichi, but also from the neighboring villages of Batagovo and Mirnoye.

        On Knowledge Day, I want to say thanks to all the teachers for their great work. For the fact that you give a lot of your strength, time, health to children in order to grow worthy representatives of our great country and great people from first-graders.

        And of course, today I cannot but wish all the students of the Bryansk region success. Good luck in the most difficult work, because the most difficult thing for a person is work on himself. This is hard work, but very necessary, because each person has the most precious thing, this is health, and the most valuable thing is knowledge.

        Dear guys! Life is complicated. And the path of life is not simple, strewn with roses. It will have thorns, ups and downs. But I want to wish you that you always set goals and tasks for yourself and stubbornly go towards their fulfillment, and you will definitely succeed! It doesn’t matter who you become, what matters is who you become. It is important that you become worthy representatives of our great people and our great country. Happy holiday to you! On a good path, and let each of you be a little lucky on this path!

        Participants of the event were greeted by Chairman of the Bryansk Regional Duma Valentin Saturday:

        – Dear Alexander Vasilyevich, teachers, parents! Dear Guys!

        I am very pleased today to congratulate you on behalf of the deputy corps of the Bryansk Regional Duma on a double holiday: Knowledge Day – the beginning of a new academic year and, of course, on the opening of this new modern school.

        This holiday is very important for each of us, but especially for first graders. They will cross the threshold of the school for the first time, hear the bell for the first time and sit at their desks for the first time. And also this is the last first call for our graduates, who will remember with excitement for a long time the moment when they first came to school.

        Dear guys! The future of culture, science, business, agriculture of our entire country depends on the knowledge that you receive in such educational institutions. Your knowledge is your personal capital for life. Julius Caesar said: “Knowledge is power.” And therefore, dear children, study! Set goals and targets correctly. And now you have one goal – to study well! Learn and surprise your parents and teachers with your knowledge. Become real citizens of our great Motherland – Russia.

        And may this day not only be the opening day of the school and the Day of Knowledge, but become a holiday of great hopes, the beginning of a new path! Dear guys, good luck!

        Good luck to you, happiness on this long path of knowledge and life! Happy holiday!

        Senator of the Russian Federation Galina Solodun congratulated all participants of the event on the Day of Knowledge and the opening of a new school:

        – Dear children, dear teachers, dear residents of Zhurinichi village, guests. Today, Knowledge Day is a holiday for every family. I want to congratulate everyone on behalf of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation and wish everyone success, health, prosperity!

        Dear teachers, you are bringing up a generation that will lead our country. I sincerely wish you well-being, a peaceful sky and all the best!

        School opening is a holiday for everyone. But most of all, this is a holiday for those who came to the first class – for the first time. The first-graders, a little worried and so happy, read the learned verses with expression and promised to treat their studies very responsibly and seriously. The head of the branch of the Malopolpinskaya school in the village of Zhurinichi, Svetlana Motorova, was handed a symbolic key to the school by the director of Alliance LLC Dmitry Leonichev. On this day, special words of gratitude were addressed to the team of builders.

        It’s time for the first school bell of this school year. The honorary right to give it was given to students of the 1st grade Anastasia Demkina, Alexei Dyukov.

        First-grader Alexey Dyukov has a double holiday – on September 1, he also celebrates his birthday. In honor of such an event, the Governor gave the birthday man a bicycle.

        After the opening, the guests of honor went to see the new school. In the new two-story building of the school-kindergarten, all conditions have been created for the children. The school has fourteen classrooms, all of which are equipped with interactive whiteboards, projectors and a teacher’s computer station. The physics room is equipped with a ceiling system. Purchased equipment for laboratory work, there is a laboratory. In the chemistry classroom, conditions have been created for conducting practical classes, water has been supplied to each desk, there is a cabinet for conducting experiments. The labor and home economics classroom is equipped with sewing machines and technological equipment, which will allow girls to learn how to sew and cook. The local high-speed Internet network provides access to each class throughout the school.

        The school’s canteen meets all modern requirements. The capacity of the dining hall is 42 seats. The equipment of the catering unit will make it possible to fully provide the school and kindergarten with hot meals.

        For the first time, an information and library center has been equipped in the school, which is provided with reference and fiction literature.

        The school has all conditions for disabled children. The school is equipped with two lifts, there are toilets for the disabled on all floors and the gym.

        One of the modern directions in education is the room of children’s initiatives created at the school. This space was created in order to develop creative thinking, self-realization, career guidance, socialization of children participating in the Russian movement of schoolchildren “Yunarmiya”.

        A museum of the history of the village of Zhurinichi, the village of Partisan Glory, has been created at the school. In a fairly short time, the museum’s exposition already has more than 20 exhibits, and each of them is very valuable. All of them were found on the territory of the settlement, at the site of battles during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. In the museum, school students will be engaged in historical and design activities in close cooperation with the Bryansk regional public organization “Search squad” Generation “of the village of Navlya. ” Also, the school is equipped with a room of Russian life, in which for the first time it became possible to collect exhibits from the inhabitants of the village of Zhurinichi.

        The music and sports hall for preschoolers will host music and physical education classes, as well as holidays and entertainment. The hall has modern equipment, a mixing unit, and microphones. This will allow to spend holidays not only for preschoolers, but also at school. The sports hall of the school is equipped with everything necessary for sports. Competitions and friendly matches can be held here.

        There will be two groups of different ages in the kindergarten. It is designed for forty pupils. The groups have spacious locker rooms, game rooms, bedrooms, food dispensers. Purchased playground equipment, sand painting studio. All toys from a Russian manufacturer, a lot of educational games.

        There are several outdoor sports grounds on the school grounds, a modern stadium with mini football and basketball fields.

        The area around the school has been landscaped: driveways and sidewalks have been paved, lighting has been installed along the entire perimeter of the territory.

        The opening of a modern educational institution will give an additional impetus to the development of the Zhurinichsky rural settlement and the Bryansk region as a whole.

        In total, more than 131,000 schoolchildren sat down at their desks in the Bryansk region this year, of which 13,361 were first-graders. There are 225 more first graders this year than last year. More than 52 thousand kids were admitted to kindergartens. 466 educational institutions, 327 kindergartens, 26 institutions of secondary vocational education, 10 universities are ready for the academic year in the Bryansk region. All of them are accepted by the interdepartmental commission.

        In recent years, we have built 10 schools in the Bryansk region, created 4582 new educational places. A school for 1,225 students is being built along Roman Bryansky Street, which will be commissioned by the end of the year. Next year, the construction of two schools begins at once: for 1225 places on Flotskaya Street and for 1650 places at the old airport.

        Children, Kindergartens, Education, Bryansk District

        Press Service of the Governor and the Government of the Region

        2022 15:22:56
        Updated: 9 Sept. 2022 11:47:27

        155 years ago the first kindergarten in Russia was opened

        In 1863 the first kindergarten was opened in Russia. Why loud singing is harmful to health, why a shadow theater was arranged in a bomb shelter, and what experiments were carried out with a samovar – Gazeta.Ru talks about kindergartens from different eras.

        Growing the flowers of life

        The name “kindergarten” did not appear immediately. In 1837, in Germany, the teacher Friedrich Fröbel opened an institution that he called Kinderbewahranstalten – a daytime shelter for minors. However, he almost immediately came up with a shorter alternative, Kindergarten – “kindergarten”.

        The metaphor of the name was as follows: the kindergarten was supposed to become not just a “polishing factory for pupils”, as Froebel’s follower Adelaida Simonovich wrote, but rather a “garden for growing the flowers of life”.

        Children, according to Frebel, are God’s plants, flowers, and the main task of the teacher, as a garden worker, is to grow them with special love.

        As conceived by the founder, the kindergarten was intended to oppose “the world mired in technicalism with a natural, natural, natural movement of a sprout from bottom to top.”

        Since at that time “schools for small children” were especially popular, in which kids spent hours “knitting stockings, memorizing catechism and spending time in deathly silence”, Froebel had to create a whole didactic complex in contrast.

        According to the “Gifts of Fröbel”, the so-called “gardeners” – educators – played with children with the help of woolen balls of all colors of the rainbow, balls, cubes, cylinders made of wood. In the same place, the first historical and pedagogical definition of a kindergarten was given as a place that is engaged in the upbringing and free development of children who are still too early to learn.

        Some time later, Froebel’s experience reached Russia: our first kindergarten was opened in 1863 in St. Petersburg by the wife of Professor Karl Lugebil. At that time it was a paid institution that only very wealthy parents could afford for their children. Children from three to eight years old were accepted there, whom teachers prepared for school and whose abilities were developed.

        However, in the enlightened St. Petersburg society, the new trend was treated with distrust: quite widespread at that time was the opinion that kindergarten limits children. So, the Russian scientist Nikolai Pirogov in his book “Questions of Life” wrote that he himself would not want to spend his childhood in such an institution, since “excessive excessive regulation of collective games and amusements makes children not free. ”

        Doctors also categorically criticized Froebel’s kindergartens – in their opinion, kindergartens served as breeding grounds for diseases that children instantly transmitted to each other during games.

        Other arguments were also made: working with small details during educational games allegedly harmed children’s eyesight, and loud singing harmed their voice.

        Kindergartens were also accused of paying too much attention to the mental development of pupils – the doctors issued a verdict that children become nervous because of this.

        Despite the stream of criticism from various sides, the idea of ​​creating a kindergarten inspired another active woman – in 1866, 22-year-old Adelaida Simonovich, together with her husband, opened another paid kindergarten, the time spent in which was limited to four hours a day. Only wealthy families could afford to pay for it. Three years later, the kindergarten was destined to close due to lack of funding, and the extensive teaching experience of the Simonovichs was subsequently embodied in the book Kindergarten.

        From 1866 to 1870 private individuals opened several paid kindergartens in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Irkutsk, Smolensk and Tbilisi.

        The boy from the closet under the stairs

        The first free kindergarten opened in Russia in 1866 – it was organized by the charitable Society of cheap apartments for children of St. Petersburg workers. Children of senior preschool age were taught scripture, prayers, and also developed fine motor skills – preschoolers were engaged in weaving, drawing and appliqué.

        At the same time, a kindergarten was opened, in which, along with people from intelligent families, children from the poorest strata could study. It was organized by the Society for the Care of Poor and Sick Children and was called the People’s. Those who could not afford the garden fee could send their children there absolutely free of charge. For all the rest, a minimum fee was introduced – 10 kopecks per month. Under the supervision of two teachers, 50 children attended the folk kindergarten.

        “These children who live in the corners, under the Swiss stairs, the janitor’s.

        In kindergarten, they are in bright, clean rooms, under good supervision and develop properly,” Simonovich wrote about this institution.

        Two folk kindergartens in the very first years of operation during the winter season taught about 120 children. During the summer, the number of young visitors increased many times – more than 1,000 children came to kindergartens every day.

        Gradually, specialized Froebel societies began to appear in different cities of Russia, which continued to introduce the ideas of the famous founder of the first kindergarten to the masses. These organizations, first of all, were engaged in the training of “gardeners”, as well as the production of children’s literature and summer leisure activities for children from poor families. Subsequently in Kyiv at 19In 08, the Frebel Institute was opened with a three-year course for the training of gardeners, at which pedagogical and psychological laboratories and kindergartens were also founded, designed for the practice of students.

        In addition, there were home kindergartens – by 1908 there were 16 such institutions in St. Petersburg. A distinctive feature of such kindergartens was the active participation of parents in the lives of children – they acted as workers, not outside observers. Thus, the conditions of the kindergarten reminded the child of a family environment. In addition, in this case, the cost of renting the premises was reduced – classes were held in turn at the home of each child. Also, home kindergartens had access to libraries, museums and teaching aids – they were even given a discount.

        Olga Kaidanova told about one of these kindergartens, which existed in 1908-1909, in the pages of the pedagogical magazine Free Education.

        For example, the children had to “make dew” — to make an experiment with a saucer over a samovar.”

        Children were also often asked to look at and study the birds they saw on the street, or to track the hours of sunrise and sunset.

        Salvation from “domestic slavery”

        By October 1917, there were already about 280 kindergartens in Russia, including folk, private home kindergartens, as well as kindergartens at educational institutions that immediately prepared for admission to school. Among them were many paid pre-school institutions for the intelligentsia and free kindergartens for children from the lower strata of the population, as well as for orphans.

        The most rapid development of the system of kindergartens in Russia was achieved only in the Soviet period, as earlier they were relentlessly pursued by funding problems. The start for the formation of the state system of preschool education was the “Declaration on preschool education”, adopted on December 20, 1917. According to its provisions, the main principles of preschool education were free and accessible.

        The main tasks that were set before the teachers was the formation of emotions and behavior of children in accordance with the principles of communist morality, as well as instilling labor skills. In addition, strengthening the health of children and their assimilation of elementary knowledge was considered important. Over time, the kindergarten came closer and closer to the school, strictly regulating the activities of children and teachers.

        Gradually, another important task of such institutions comes to the fore – the need to relieve women from “domestic slavery”. The kindergarten allowed women to go to work earlier, while combining motherhood and active social activities.

        That is why, in 1937, departmental kindergartens designed for the children of employees of a certain enterprise became widespread. This allowed women to work quietly for the good of their homeland and not worry about their child, who was in close proximity and under supervision.

        In the same years, another new type of preschool educational institution appeared – a nursery-kindergarten.

        At the request of the parents, children could be admitted there as early as two months old. A distinctive feature of that time for kindergartens was a 50% discount on the maintenance of children for single mothers, which was determined by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. This innovation was associated with large losses of the male population who went to war.

        Garden in a bomb shelter

        The Great Patriotic War had a great influence on the development of the system of kindergartens – during the war years their number increased dramatically: if at 19In 41 there were about 14.3 thousand of them, then in 1945 – already more than 25 thousand. This happened mainly due to the fact that the country urgently needed workers. Another good reason was the large number of evacuated children from different areas, which the existing kindergartens simply could not cope with.

        A huge role in those years was played by the selflessness of the “gardeners”. Educators and nannies made every effort to make the kindergarten a second home for the children, and the group a family.

        So, in the winter of 1941, many non-evacuated kindergartens in Moscow had to be transferred to bomb shelters. According to the recollections of the educators, the children were very scared in dark enclosed spaces, the children’s crying did not subside. The situation was saved by the elderly nanny of garden No. 12, Praskovya Fedorova, who bought candles with all her money, fixed them on the walls and watched day and night so that they would not go out. Another of her ideas was to show shadow theater to children.

        Kindergartens. Department of Education of the Administration of the Nadymsky District

        Municipal educational organizations implementing preschool education programs in the territory of the Nadymsky District

        No. p/n Name of the educational organization Educational organization address Full name head, contact phone E-mail Official website of the organization
        1 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Gazovichok “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Embankment, 9/1 Beliman Yulia Nikolaevna
        52-33-30         		gazovichok@
        nadym. yanao.ru         		gazovichok.tvoysadik.ru
        2 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Scarlet Flower “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Embankment them. Orudzheva, 35 Vandzilyak Tatyana Nikolaevna
        52-35-42         		dsalenkiy
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		alenkiytsvetochek-nadym.ru
        3 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten “Snow White”, Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Embankment them. Orudzheva, 29/1 Yulia Mikhailovna Gorbunova
        52-20-26         		dsbelosnezhka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		belosnezhka-nadym.tvoysadik.ru
        4 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Pinocchio “Nadym” YNAO, Nadym, Lesnoy settlement Elizarieva Natalya Anatolyevna
        53-16-95         		dsburatino
        @nadym. yanao.ru         		buratino-nadym.ru
        5 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Yolochka “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Zvereva, 9/1 Kostyleva Aleftina Mikhailovna
        53-69-00         		dselochka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		elochka-nadym.tvoysadik.ru
        6 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Zhuravlyonok “, Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Embankment them. Orudzheva, d.6-a Tropova Marina Anatolyevna
        53-53-37         		dszhuravlenok
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		zhuravlenok-nadym.tvoysadik.ru
        7 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Bear cub “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Zvereva, 19/1 Miftahova Lenar Irekovna
        56-33-76         		dsmedvezhonok
        @nadym. yanao.ru         		nadymmedvezhonok.
        tvoysadik.ru
        8 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Ogonyok “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Embankment them. Orudzheva, 22 Mogilko Oksana Vladimirovna
        52-35-32         		dsogonek
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		ogonek-nadym.tvoysadik.ru
        9 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Rodnichok “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Embankment them. Orudzheva, d.58 Yulia Alexandrovna Rostovshchikova
        52-52-10         		dsrodnik
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		rodnichok-nadym.ru
        10 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Romashka “Nadym” 629730, Nadym, st. Geologist, 3/1 Orekhova Olga Nikolaevna ds. romashka.nadym
        @mail.ru         		romashka-nadym.tvoysadik.ru
        11 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten “Rosinka”, Nadym” Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nadym, Leningradsky prospect, 13 Baginskaya Elena Iosifovna
        52-63-36         		dsrosinka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		dsrosinka.tvoysadik.ru
        12 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Skazka “Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Komsomolskaya, 9-a Silina Svetlana Vladimirovna
        53-11-81         		dsskazka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		skazka-nadym.tvoysadik.ru
        13 Municipal pre-school educational institution “Kindergarten “Smile”, Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Zvereva, 44-a Kulikova Olga Sergeevna
        52-61-72         		dsulybka
        @nadym. yanao.ru         		ulybka-nadym.ru
        14 Municipal pre-school educational institution “Kindergarten” Sun “of the city of Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Stroiteley 7a Kulikov Eduard Alexandrovich
        54-71-89         		dssolnyshko
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		dssn.ru
        15 Municipal Preschool Educational Institution “Center for Child Development” Kindergarten “Umka”, Nadym” YaNAO, Nadym, st. Kedrovaya, building 10 Klyuzheva Anna Evgenievna
        53-83-00         		dsumka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		umka-nadym.ru
        16 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Golden Cockerel “p. Pangody Nadymsky district” YaNAO, Nadymsky district, Pangody settlement, st. Lenina, 24 Prisakar Anzhela Dmitrievna
        56-19-38         		dspetushok
        @nadym. yanao.ru         		petushok.tvoysadik.ru
        17 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Mechta “p. Pangody of the Nadymsky district” YaNAO, Nadymsky district, Pangody settlement, st. Lenina, 43 A Samoilova Natalya Nikolaevna
        56-01-54         		dsmechta
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		mechta.tvoysadik.ru
        18 Municipal pre-school educational institution “Kindergarten” Iskorka “p. Pangody Nadymsky district” YaNAO, Nadymsky district, Pangody settlement, st. Lenina, 14 Eltarova Oksana Mikhailovna
        56-29-66         		dsiskorka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		pangodi.tvoysadik.ru
        19 Municipal Preschool Educational Institution Kindergarten “Kapelka” Zapolyarny, Nadymsky District” YaNAO, Nadymsky district, Zapolyarny settlement Popova Natalia Nikolaevna
        51-38-81         		dskapelka
        @nadym. yanao.ru         		kapelka.tvoysadik.ru
        20 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Forest Fairy Tale “Longyugan settlement, Nadymsky district” YNAO, Nadymsky district, Longyugan settlement Li Olga Nikolaevna
        51-84-27         		dslesnayaskazka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		lskazka-longugan.ru
        21 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Lesovichok “p. Yagelny, Nadym district” YNAO, Nadymsky district, Yagelny settlement Eshchenko Marina Vladimirovna
        51-92-83         		dslesovichek
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		lesovichok.tvoysadik.ru
        22 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Morozko “p. Priozerny Nadymsky district” YaNAO, Nadymsky district, Priozerny village Pleshakova Regina Valerievna
        51-59-03         		dsmorozko
        @nadym. yanao.ru         		morozko-priozerniy.tvoysadik.ru
        23 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Skazka “p. Pravokhettinsky Nadymsky district” Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nadymsky district, p. Pravohetinsky, st. Gazovikov, 27 Petrova Nadezhda Vasilievna
        51-44-53         		dsskazka.hetta
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		skazka-pravhetta.ru
        24 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Malyshok “Nori village, Nadym district” Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nadymsky district, s. Nori Anufrieva Svetlana Nikolaevna
        54-47-08         		dsmalyshok
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		malyshok-nori.ru
        25 Municipal preschool educational institution “Kindergarten” Cheburashka “Nyda village, Nadymsky district” Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Nadymsky district, s. Nyda Kovaleva Olga Mikhailovna
        53-95-72         		dscheburashka
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		cheburashka-nyda.ru
        26 Municipal educational institution “Education Center” YaNAO, Nadymsky district, Pangody settlement, st. Lenina, 17 Serikova Marina Vladimirovna
        52-92-32         		centrobrpangody
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		co-pangody.yanaoschool.ru
        27 Municipal educational institution “Boarding school of secondary (complete) general education with. Kutopyugan 629755, Russian Federation, YNAO, Nadymsky district, s. Kutopyugan Longortova Marina Rifkhatovna
        54-68-81         		soshkutop
        @nadym.yanao.ru         		schoolkutop.ru

        How kindergartens work during quarantine

        • Marina Boytsova

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        If necessary, the city is ready to open additional reserve institutions

        Photo: Petersburg Diary / Svetlana Kholyavchuk

        Currently, 43 kindergartens in 17 districts are open in St. Petersburg on duty, 40 of them are fully operational, the rest are waiting to be filled. In one district – Kurortny – the on-duty kindergarten is not open due to the lack of applications from parents, but in another district – Primorsky – 8 on-duty kindergartens work at once.

        Unprecedented measures

        Today Smolny representatives and journalists visited Kindergarten No. 62 in the Frunzensky District. Two groups are currently working here: one has 12 children aged 3 to 6, the other has two very small ones.

        All those entering, regardless of status, were taken through the sanitary checkpoint: they were changed into boot covers, their temperature was measured, personal belongings were asked to be put into plastic bags, they had to be washed twice as well, and then treated with an antiseptic on top. Only after that it was possible to go to the holy of holies – kindergarten.

        Photo: Petersburg Diary / Svetlana Kholyavchuk

        Any visitor, including parents, enters in the same way. True, they remain to wait for their children, not passing further than one or two meters.
        The kids were sleeping at that moment. The spacious hall is divided into several zones. All unnecessary furniture has been removed to create maximum space and convenience for thorough disinfection and cleaning.

        As Zhanna Vorobieva, chairman of the Education Committee, explained, the government of St. Petersburg is taking unprecedented measures to create a safe environment for children.

        “First of all, we had to open separate kindergartens until March 30, the beginning of the non-working week, so that they would work as on-call for the children of those parents who, in accordance with the decree of the President of Russia, work continuously and who do not have the opportunity to go into self-isolation. The Education Committee has prepared an appropriate order, which published a list of 43 kindergartens located in all 18 districts, as well as the procedure for enrolling children in these groups. Parents could fill out an application published on the committee’s official website and choose the kindergarten on duty that is closer to their place of residence or work,” said Zhanna Vorobyeva.

        Photo: Petersburg Diary / Svetlana Kholyavchuk

        As many as you need

        According to Zhanna Vorobieva, the city is ready to continue opening reserve kindergartens, if necessary.

        “There are 1,105 kindergartens, 98 kindergarten schools and 11 departments at schools in St. Petersburg, providing places for 282,400 children. On Friday, after the publication of the presidential decree, 101 thousand St. Petersburg parents decided to leave their children at home. And another 1.5 thousand children remained at home in quarantine with SARS or influenza, – said the chairman of the Education Committee. – In general, conditions have been created for everyone, each kindergarten has not only an entrance through a medical cordon, but also carefully fulfills other orders of Rospotrebnadzor. In each kindergarten, in each group there should be no more than 12 pupils, but if there are fewer children, we try to divide them into groups of 5-6 children.”

        The heads of all districts keep the work of kindergartens on duty under special control. As the head of the administration of the Frunzensky district Konstantin Serov noted, so far there are as many kindergartens operating on the territory as the need was calculated for (based on the statements of the parents). But, if necessary, other institutions can be opened at any time.

        The head of the administration also said that there is no territorial connection to the place of residence – the parent does not have to live in the district. If he works here, he will be given a place in the kindergarten. He also said that children of doctors and security forces, who, as you know, do not have vacations, are in need of such emergency kindergartens.

        “If quarantine or non-working days last longer, then there are more than 1,100 kindergartens in the city, they are all on standby. If we are told that children can return to their kindergartens, then all institutions will also promptly accept children. But parents have the right to decide on their own whether to attend kindergarten or leave the child at home. So far, this regime is valid until April 5, ”summed up Zhanna Vorobyeva.

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        A new kindergarten will open in 2020 in the Gidrostroiteley microdistrict of Krasnodar :: Krd.

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        A major overhaul has started in the former building of the Rodnik Art School. After its completion, a kindergarten for 280 places will be located here, including two nursery groups with 15 places each.

        Renovated kindergarten No. 191 on the street. Gidrostroiteley, 41 is planned to be opened at the end of 2020. Previously, the Rodnik children’s art school was located in the building, in January 2020 it “moved” to a three-story building on the street. them. Nevkipely, 10a.

        – Good news for the residents of Gidrostroy. As promised, we started repairing the kindergarten on the street. Hydrobuilders to have time to put it into operation before the end of the year. Previously, the art and music departments of the Rodnik children’s art school were located here. We purchased other premises for them with the support of the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, the children are now studying in new modern buildings,” Evgeny Pervyshov said in his Telegram channel.

        Capital repairs of the former building of the Children’s Art School “Rodnik” began on July 20.

        Now specialists are dismantling inside the building, they have begun to dismantle the old structures. In one of the premises, the installation of internal partitions has already begun.

        32 people work at the facility, 4 units of equipment are involved.

        After the completion of works, the following will be opened here:

        • 6 group rooms for children of early and preschool age;
        • music and sports halls;
        • medical and treatment rooms;
        • catering department;
        • laundry.

        The surrounding area will be completely landscaped, the fence will be replaced and playgrounds with shade canopies will be equipped here for each of the groups.

        According to Alexei Nekrasov, director of the education department, funding has already been provided for the purchase of equipment for the future kindergarten.

        All construction works are planned to be completed by December of this year.

        In May 2020, Evgeny Pervyshov visited the construction site of the kindergarten on the street. them. Valeria Gassia, 6/D, which will open in the first quarter of 2021. Motorists, 6/2;

      • kindergarten on the street. Motorists, 4/2;
      • kindergarten on avenue them. Writer Znamensky.

      Now in Krasnodar, six preschool institutions are being built in parallel.

      In total, 16 kindergartens have been built and opened in Krasnodar over the past three years

      KINDERGARTEN – YEAR 2020 Zapadny Bypass, 22

      pr. im. Repina, 36

      st. them. Geroya Georgy Bocharnikova, 5

      KINDERGARTEN – YEAR 2019

      pos. Fertile-2, st. Aleksandrovskaya, 30

      st. them. Evgeny Zhigulenko, 23

      pr. Konstantin Obraztsova, 6

      settlement Industrial, st.