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Dr. Maria Montessori founded the Montessori movement in teaching and learning. It was her belief that each child has the ability to learn and should be nurtured and taught individually. This is the foundation of our child care center, from the Infants to Kinder Readiness.  This is why we believe we are one of the top child care providers in San Antonio, TX!

At Sunshine Montessori Academy, our trained staff and comprehensive curriculum allow each child to receive far more than just supervision. Our students spend their days curious, inquisitive, and engaged. We provide full-day child care services for children from the age of infants through the pre-kindergarten years, and a child of any age has much to gain from our program. If you are searching for an early childhood school in the San Antonio, TX area, we invite yo to visit Sunshine Montessori Academy.

At Sunshine Montessori Academy, we’re proud to offer a versatile selection of child care programs to parents throughout the San Antonio, TX region. Whether you’re searching for the top child care providers to look after your infant or toddler, we’ve got you covered every step of the way. In fact, our qualified staff members will spend quality time with your child, providing constant supervision and all sorts of engaging activities. Be sure to browse the following section to learn more about our current service options!

INFANT CARE

At Sunshine, we believe learning begins as soon as your child is enrolled in our care, even before they can walk and talk! Our caregivers make sure our infants have the best possible care in a clean, structured, and fun environment. 

In between feeding time, nap time and changing time; we are also providing stimulating, age-appropriate educational activities and tasks for our littlest learners. We have the created a classroom that will help develop each childs gross motor skills (crawling, walking, pulling up on their own) and fine motor skills (self feeding, playing with handheld toys, reaching and grabbing objects). Story time and Sing alongs throughout the day will not only sooth an infant, but will help develop their language and cognitive skills as well.

While our care is no substitute for Mommy and Daddy’s love and attention, we do believe it’s the second-best thing!

TODDLER CARE

We encourage our toddlers to be self-motivated and fully engaged with the learning experience. We’ve structured the lessons and materials to help kids stay involved and motivated.

Our teachers are trained to give each child individual attention and an individualized curriculum. Our goal is to teach every child that learning can be fun. The curriculum is specially geared to young children, putting them on the right path to a lifelong love of learning. We introduce a new letter, shape, and number every month. Our children learn about the seasons and the world around them.

We place our toddlers into three main rooms:

• Walkers: 13 months – 17 months
• Toddlers: 18 months – 23 months
• Younger 2’s and Older 2’s 

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Give your child the head start he or she needs with a Montessori inspired child care experience. Children at Sunshine Montessori Academy get to learn while still having plenty of time to play and form friendships.   Our child care center is the top location in the San Antonio, TX area! Don’t you want your child to join the fun? Learn more about how we can give your child a great start by contacting us
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Federal Aid Is Propping Up Child Care. It Isn’t a Long-Term Fix.

This story has been updated to clarify the possible impact of a package of child care proposals in Utah.

Read Stateline coverage of the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Federal COVID-19 relief dollars for child care providers will continue to flow through the states this year, cheered by both Republican and Democratic governors who say parents need affordable child care to get back to work. 

But child care providers and advocates warn that the federal money, which expires in 2024, won’t solve the industry’s fundamental, long-term challenge: how to provide quality services and pay workers a competitive wage while keeping prices affordable.

Federal and state aid must continue, said Karen DeVos, owner of a child care business in rural Ada, Minnesota. “We can’t just say, ‘We’re nearing the end of the pandemic,’ or, ‘OK, the pandemic is now the norm: Figure it out.’”

While some states have started to spend the $39 billion for child care authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act, others haven’t. Some governors and state lawmakers are starting to announce their plans now, from setting aside grants for startup child care businesses to offering larger grants to businesses that can use the money to give workers a bonus.

States have until 2023 to spend $24 billion in child care business grants and until 2024 to spend $15 billion in child care subsidy dollars. A wide range of providers can apply for the business grants, and spend them on rent, wages, equipment and other operating expenses.

The subsidy money builds on a longstanding state and federal partnership to help low-income families afford care at licensed facilities. The federal government is encouraging states to use the money to increase subsidies for families, payments to providers, salaries for early educators or funding for training early educators.

The relief dollars come as state policymakers of both parties are increasingly talking about the important role child care plays in the economy. Idaho Republican Gov. Brad Little, for instance, said in an October speech that about 9% fewer adults in the state are working or looking for jobs now than in 1998. 

“If we want to get the participation rate up, [day care] is something we’re going to have to address,” he said.

Some conservative lawmakers remain wary, however. Idaho’s Republican-controlled legislature last spring rejected some federal funds for early childhood education. Lawmakers said they feared the money would require educators to teach social justice concepts and encourage mothers to work outside the home. 

“My concern with any federal money is the strings that are attached to it,” Idaho Republican state Rep. Charlie Shepherd said in a recent phone interview. “If they try to implement their curriculum, or if they throw in any, ‘we must teach this’ or ‘we must teach that’—for me, that’s automatically a no-go.”

Meanwhile, advocates for child care providers and some Democrats say states and the federal government need to do much more to bolster the industry, such as by expanding subsidies for low-income families or increasing access to publicly funded preschool. 

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Ultimately, they say, the federal government needs to step in. “States cannot do it alone. This problem is so massive that federal intervention is needed,” said Clare Sanford, government relations chair of the Minnesota Child Care Association, an advocacy group for child care centers based in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. 

Democrats in Congress have included new child care subsidies for low- and middle-income families in their sprawling social spending bill, the Build Back Better Act. States would administer the funds and eventually contribute 10% of the child care assistance costs.

That legislation is currently stalled, however. Republicans and moderate Democrats oppose its price tag and many of its provisions. Republicans say the child care portion of the bill would increase child care costs and hurt faith-based providers. 

With future funding uncertain, child care providers worry about what will happen when federal relief dollars dry up. DeVos is currently using a federal grant provided monthly by Minnesota’s human services agency to pay her employees $300-$700 monthly bonuses. 

She can’t afford the bonuses without the grants, she said. “My fear is, when those end, what happens?”

A Massive Infusion of Federal Aid

Before the pandemic, parents already were struggling to find child care and afford licensed programs that can cost as much a year as in-state college tuition. Meanwhile, child care workers typically were earning less than $12 an hour, according to the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley.  

Then COVID-19 threatened to shut down whole swaths of the industry. Public health orders forced businesses to temporarily close. Parents kept their kids home to keep them safe from the virus. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended social distancing procedures and cleaning protocols that reduced child care businesses’ revenue while increasing costs. 

Yet while some businesses have closed for good, federal aid has kept the industry afloat, policy experts say.

First, the March 2020 CARES Act set aside over $4 billion for child care programs and Head Start, a federal early childhood program for low-income families. Then a December 2020 budget bill allocated over $10 billion for the same purpose. And finally, the March 2021 American Rescue Plan Act authorized $39 billion for child care programs. 

That doesn’t include federal small-business loans and state grants—largely funded by federal aid—that some child care centers also have received. DeVos also received a federal Paycheck Protection Program loan, for instance.

“We have just very narrowly staved off widespread closures, as a result of federal relief dollars,” said Dan Wuori, senior director of early learning at the Hunt Institute, an affiliate of the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy. “If the CARES Act had happened any later than it did, I think some of the more dire predictions would have come true.”

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Minnesota advocate Sanford said that in her state, about as many child care providers closed in 2020 as in prior years. She attributes the sector’s stability to government aid, starting with emergency grants Minnesota funded soon after the pandemic began. (The state later used federal aid to cover the $30 million cost.)

DeVos is moving ahead with her pre-pandemic plan to expand to a second location, which will more than double the number of children her business serves.   

The child care industry isn’t yet back to normal. About 11% fewer people are working in child day care services now than in February 2020, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.  

Providers and advocates say recruiting and retaining workers is now their biggest challenge. They say businesses are struggling to compete with fast-food chains and big-box stores that are offering upwards of $15 an hour. 

“Our child care programs—they simply cannot hire,” said Beth Oppenheimer, executive director of the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, an advocacy group based in Boise. “The wait lists are long, and that doesn’t mean there’s no space. It means they can’t hire a teacher to be in a classroom that’s sitting there empty.”

Surging COVID-19 cases and quarantine rules make staffing even more difficult. DeVos said she’s hired three more people, increasing her total staff by a third, to make sure she has backup if an employee tests positive. “We need to have somebody there to fill in that spot,” she said. 

States Finalize Spending Plans

Governors of both parties have in recent months proposed new spending on child care programs.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, said she wants to allow families who earn up to 225% of the federal poverty line to access child care subsidies—up from the state’s current 200% limit—and she wants to spend $75 million to boost child care worker wages. Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis wants to spend $30 million to renovate state buildings, including higher education institutions, to add child care facilities. The facilities would be open to the public and run by private providers.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, blasted the federal Build Back Better bill in her annual budget address but touted her plans to distribute her state’s $100 million allocation of American Rescue Plan Act aid. The money will be spent to help new and existing child care businesses, help employers open facilities for employees, and fund scholarships for child care workers, she said.

Many of the recent proposals will likely be funded by American Rescue Plan Act funds—even if governors aren’t making that explicit, said Anne Hedgepeth, deputy chief of policy for Child Care Aware of America, a nonprofit that works with child care resource and referral agencies and advocates for child care policies. 

“You see relief [funds] driving it,” she said. 

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Some states have started distributing the federal child care funds, but others still are working on their plans for the money. 

That’s partly due to timing, Hedgepeth said. In some states, legislatures need to approve the spending and didn’t have time to do so last session.

State plans reveal a range of strategies for spending the business and child care subsidy funds. North Carolina and Connecticut are giving larger business grants to programs that use the money to increase worker base pay or benefits, for instance.  

Arkansas will use the subsidy funds to help essential workers pay for child care and to pay for scholarships for early childhood teachers. Georgia is expanding child care subsidies to families who earn up to 85% of the state’s median income, up from the state’s typical 50% threshold.

Some states are considering additional policy changes. Republican lawmakers and governors say lifting regulations could alleviate child care shortages by helping businesses grow.

A Utah legislative committee recently advanced a series of child care proposals that could allow non-licensed, home-based centers to serve more children and would prevent cities from exceeding state child care regulations.

The package also would include startup funds for child care businesses that partner with employers, funded with federal child care aid, and would allow child care businesses to take advantage of certain state economic development incentives. 

“All these things, we’re hoping, will help to increase capacity,” said Utah state Rep. Susan Pulsipher, a Republican and the bill’s sponsor. 

The South Dakota Department of Social Services will be reviewing child care licensing requirements, said Cabinet Secretary Laurie Gill. “I think our governor is interested in taking a look at the licensing requirements and making sure that they’re relevant today, and that we don’t have unnecessary red tape or hurdles.”  

Democrats and child care advocates are instead calling for larger child care subsidies that could help parents afford care and businesses offer higher wages. They’re skeptical that cutting regulations and other interventions popular with conservatives will solve the industry’s structural problems. 

“The small-government interventions—I would love to hear some that would actually have a positive impact, because we could actually get them done, maybe in Utah,” said Anna Thomas, a senior policy analyst at Voices for Utah Children, a Salt Lake City-based nonprofit that advocates for children.

“But there just haven’t been any viable solutions to this systemic problem that don’t require substantial government investment,” she said.  

Given the record-breaking surpluses many states expect this year, some Democrats say now’s the time for big spending increases. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz said at a virtual panel last month that “this is the moment” to help families, according to the Star Tribune.  

Walz won’t reveal his budget until the end of January, however. Walz’s press team declined to comment further on the governor’s plans.

Many Estonian municipalities do not provide a place in kindergarten for all children | Estonia

The Law on Pre-School Childhood Institutions imposes an obligation on local governments to ensure that children living there have the opportunity to attend a kindergarten. Despite this, many local governments have problems with the implementation of the law. The Ministry of Education is trying to find a solution to this problem by harmonizing the services offered by kindergartens and child care centers.

The Law on Pre-School Children’s Institutions imposes a clear obligation on local governments to ensure that children aged 1. 5 to 7 living there can attend a kindergarten at the request of their parents.

At the beginning of February, the Supreme Court drew attention to the fact that there are many local governments in Estonia where a place in kindergarten is not guaranteed for all children. At the same time, this is the third court case in recent times in which the State Court reiterates that the municipality has no right to refuse to provide a place in a kindergarten. A similar position was expressed by the Chancellor of Justice.

Maila Rajamets, head of the pre-school education department of the Ministry of Education, confirmed to ERR that a parent has the right to demand a place in a kindergarten from the municipality from the moment the child is one and a half years old. At the same time, for children under three years old, a place in a kindergarten can be replaced by a childcare service, but only with the consent of the parent.

“Currently, we are considering options on how to unify the services offered by kindergartens and childcare facilities without losing quality. In the coming days, we will meet with a working group of the ministry and plan to meet with representatives of local governments to hear their specific suggestions to help solve this problem,” she said.

According to Rajamets, a draft law on pre-school education and child care services is currently being prepared, the purpose of which is to unify the services offered by kindergartens and child care centres.

Child care centres: we are discriminated against

At the end of January, the Estonian Union of Child Care Institutions sent a letter to the Ministry expressing their dissatisfaction with the current situation. The letter noted that due to the cumulative effect of laws and regulations, child care centers are discriminated against and may soon disappear altogether, since they are not equated with kindergartens or nurseries.

“Parents refuse childcare services, demanding compensation from the local government or a place in a kindergarten. Increasingly, this is done through the courts and with a public smear campaign,” the union wrote.

Although the law interprets the childcare service as a social service, in reality, according to the union, this does not mean a reduction in educational and educational work. The union blames the municipalities for the fact that the size of the subsidy for private kindergartens decreases from year to year compared to kindergartens, and, of course, parents do not want to use the service for which they have to pay more.

“Today, there are a number of child care centers whose quality is very high, and sometimes even better than some nurseries, but from the point of view of the law, these centers cannot be considered equal service providers,” representatives of the care centers said for the children.

They also pointed out as a problem that since the kindergarten is an educational institution, income tax can be deducted from the attendance fee, which is not possible in the case of a child care center.

Child care centers fear that until the adoption of the new Law on Pre-School Education and Child Care, the childcare service may completely disappear from the educational landscape in Estonia, as the current system has created a situation in which parents compete only for a place in kindergarten without considering other options.

Millions of euros are required to create the required number of places in municipal kindergartens

Last autumn, the Harju County Municipal Association also applied to the Ministry of Education, since in a number of municipalities, including the parishes of Harku, Kiili, Rae, Saku, Saue and Viimsi, it is impossible guarantee places in municipal kindergartens for all children under the age of three.

According to the association’s assessment, in order to provide places in kindergartens in Harju County for all 2,500 children, it is necessary to build 25 six-group kindergarten buildings, but local governments do not consider such an investment to be reasonable. Therefore, in these parishes, the network of preschool institutions is formed from municipal and private kindergartens and providers of childcare services.

The Union proposed to amend the Law on Pre-School Institutions so that the rural municipality or city government can replace a place in a kindergarten for a child aged 1.5 to 3 years with a child care service, and that a service provided to all children under the age of three , was considered as a childcare service.

In a reply to the Union of Municipalities of Harju County, the Ministry referred to a plan to unify the quality of services offered by kindergartens and child care centers through the Act on Preschool Education and Day Care Centers. In this regard, according to the Ministry, it is necessary to change the Income Tax Law in such a way that a parent using the services of a child care center has the right to deduct these expenses from his income.

A parent has the right to demand a place in a kindergarten

According to the representative of the Ministry of Education, the law allows the local government to purchase a service from a private enterprise on a competitive basis instead of running a municipal kindergarten, so the practice of local governments in Harju County, where the network of preschool institutions consists of both municipal, and from private kindergartens and child care providers, is perfectly legal.

“In both cases, the local self-government unit remains an obligated entity that must provide services to the child and family under the conditions provided for in the Law on Preschool Education,” Rajamets said.

However, unlike kindergartens, which are part of the education sector, child care services, which are part of the social sector, are not required to guarantee preschool education.

“Kindergarten is an educational institution and childcare is a social service. Childcare providers are very good cooperation partners and offer a high-quality service. However, childcare cannot be equated with kindergarten services, and a parent still has the right to demand a place for their child in a kindergarten,” Rajamets said.

Regarding the appeal of the Union of Child Care Institutions, the representative of the Ministry of Education stated that the Ministry stands for quality education at all levels.

“For children for whom the local government unit cannot guarantee a place in a nursery school, private childcare fees must be reimbursed on the same basis as for municipal kindergarten costs. In addition, many local government units local governments, when a parent submits an application, compensate for reasonable expenses associated with the use of a place in a child care center, for example, they compensate for transportation costs,” said Rajamets.

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Business directory of Barnaul

5.0 average score based on 12 reviews. The organization has 2 branches in the city.

Contact information

Address: Barnaul, Krasnoarmeisky prospect, 55a – 2nd floor (see on the map).

Phones: +7 (903) 912-07-79, +7 (913) 025-60-37, +7 (3852) 25-37-85

Opening hours

Open now — 13:53

Address: Barnaul, Tikhonova, 5 (see on the map).

Phones: +7 (903) 912-07-79, +7 (913) 025-60-37, +7 (3852) 25-37-85

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Open now – 13:53

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Activities

The institution specializes in 2 types of activities.

• Early childhood development centers
• Private kindergartens

4.0 average rating based on 3 reviews

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Happy Baby, Kindergarten

Addresses:
– Zarechny, 5 – 1st floor
– Papanikov, 111

5.0 Current Evaluation based on 3 Reviews

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Meshchutka, Center for Supply and childcare

Addresses:
– Popova, 158
– Anton Petrov, 222a – 1st floor; 3 entrance

4.1 average rating based on 7 reviews

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Karusel, day care center for children

Address:
– Popova, 150

4.4 Current assessment based on 7 reviews

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ABC, Children’s Center

Address:
– Kalinina Prospekt, 7
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daughters-daughters Sonochki, kids club

Addresses:
— Anton Petrova, 247 — 1st floor
— Gushchina, 157 — 1st floor

4. 7 average rating based on 7 reviews

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Address:
– Kolyado Lane, 24

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Darinka, early development Center

Address:
– Yurina, 166g

4.2 Current assessment based on 11 reviews

9000 15 STSSITS

2 Tochka Rosta, child care center

Addresses:
– Ostrovskogo, 68e
– Novgorodskaya, 26 – 1 floor

5.0 average rating based on 9 reviews

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Lionok, developing center

Address:
— Novoaltaysk, Anatolia, 37a

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Read 12 user reviews about the company “Barbariski”.

06/30/2018

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Rating: 5

I sent my son to the Barbariki garden at 2.4 years old, I chose the garden for a long time, on the recommendation of a friend, we decided to go here. Our adaptation went as smoothly as possible for the child, at first we were with my mother, we went for 2 hours, then for half a day, as a result, my home child began to ask to stay for a dream! Before that, we had a negative experience of going to another kindergarten, in Vyrastaika on Partizanskaya, they said that for the first time you need to leave the child alone in the group in order to adapt faster, the teachers there seemed rude to me, I realized that this was not our option. Now more about Barbariki. There was a feeling that we were in a warm family atmosphere, a group of different ages, the children are very friendly with each other, the elders help the younger ones, it was so touching when my son was taken to the toilet by an older girl, Diana. I can only say the best things about this nursery. We went to this garden for a total of 2.5 years, now, unfortunately, we had to leave it. A speech therapist, a psychologist conduct classes with children in the garden, there is a theater studio, English.