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Those numbers have bounced back considerably. Although at least 97% of centers are open, their enrollment is still down from pre-pandemic levels, with at least 1 in 4 fewer children attending.
That means less tuition income, but these businesses, from mom and pop shops in homes to large franchises housing a couple of hundred kids or more, have survived with the help of federal stimulus checks.
The industry also credits Gov. Brian Kemp’s “forward-thinking” approach to child care, said Wande Okunoren-Meadows, who operates a child care center in Forest Park and is vice president of the Georgia Child Care Association.
“I’ve heard from other states that some of those child care providers, they’ve closed and they have not been able to reopen,” she said. But Kemp never ordered centers closed and quickly relaxed caps on group gathering sizes, which by limiting classroom capacity were driving up costs.
Still, Okunoren-Meadows said enrollment is down considerably at her Little Ones Learning Center. It is in Clayton County, one of the few school districts still operating exclusively online.
But Clayton County Public Schools will resume in-person classes in mid-April, and Okunoren-Meadows expects demand to rise when parents and older siblings are no longer at home. However, she is finding it difficult to hire new employees. Before the pandemic, she said, a help-wanted ad might draw 300 applicants per week. Now, she’s lucky if she can attract 20 and find one qualified hire in the mix.
Rich Kernan is noticing the same clashing trends in north Fulton County, where he and his wife own two Kids ‘R’ Kids franchises: They started fielding a lot more calls from interested parents a month or so ago, but they can’t staff up.
Demand for spots “is on the front end of exploding,” he said, with at least 25 families on their waiting lists. “We get calls nonstop, from either parents looking to return who’ve been out all this time because they’re afraid of COVID or from families we’ve never heard from looking for child care for the first time.”
He said competitors in a 10-mile radius have posted hundreds of help wanted listings online. He is offering $500 signing bonuses to stand out, but it hasn’t helped.
Grants from the prior federal stimulus packages have kept him and his wife, Peggy, afloat.
“Thank God for the money from the feds because we just don’t have the money from the tuition that we normally would,” she said. “The flip side is the federal money that’s raining down in the form of DOL to the individual employees.”
Peggy Kernan was referring to state Department of Labor unemployment checks, which were swollen by the same federal stimulus packages that helped her and her husband’s businesses.
The hiring situation may improve when the unemployment subsidy ends. By then, child care centers should be benefiting from the latest round of stimulus — the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan signed by President Joe Biden earlier this month.
Georgia has not received an official estimate of the state’s take of the roughly $25 billion reserved for child care in this round. But Jacobs, the state commissioner, estimates it will be at least $1.5 billion. As in the past, the money can be used for grants to operators and for tuition subsidies for low-income parents. There is just a lot more of it this time.
Jacobs is still distributing tens of millions of dollars from the last stimulus check — $403 million for Georgia child care. That amount, signed by then-President Donald Trump in December, came atop $144 million last spring.
“There have been shocking statistics about the number of child care centers that have closed across the country and there are grave concerns that they will not be able to reopen or … stay open unless we provide this support,” Heather Boushey, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in a call with local reporters last week.
But the government stimulus is a temporary solution for a growing problem.
“If we increase the payroll to the teachers and then that money runs out from the state, how are we going to pay the teachers five years from now? You have to go up on your tuition,” said Ann Weeks, who operates the Five Forks Academy in Lilburn. Yet for many, the tuition — typically $1,000 or so per month ― is already a stretch.
“So the short-term fix might be in but it won’t be a long-term fix and then we’ll be back in the same situation again,” she said.
This influx of cash may sustain the industry through the pandemic, but the wage and cost problems will linger.
Some will pay whatever they can for a safe place to keep their children.
“Oh my goodness: There’s no words to express how important that is. It’s priceless,” said Lori Pressley, a physical therapist whose 4-year-old attends a child care center in Cleveland. Her other daughter is in elementary school.
“My ability to do my job is because I know both my children are being taken care of,” Pressley said. “That’s not just now. That’s always.”
Federal stimulus for Georgia child care
$144 million: CARES I (last spring)
$403 million: CARES II (winter)
$1.5 billion: American Rescue Plan (current estimate)
Source: Amy Jacobs, commissioner, Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning budget
$1,011,451,849: agency 2020 budget
$571,499,178: federal revenue (57%)
$377,933,046: state lottery revenue (37%)
$61,223,188: state funding (6%)
78,552: fiscal year 2020 applications processed for Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) tuition subsidy program
Source: Department of Early Care and Learning Fiscal Year 2020 Annual Report
State early care tuition subsidies
$280 million: typical annual allocation for Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) tuition subsidy program
50,000: students awarded CAPS subsidy
$5,700: average CAPS subsidy (a little over half typical tuition cost)
51,000: being awarded full rather than partial CAPS subsidy using federal CARES II funding
$600 million: the estimated portion of the American Rescue Plan to be used for expanding CAPS subsidies
Source: Amy Jacobs, commissioner, Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning
Child care providers in Georgia
4,434: February 2020
4,478: February 2021
Source: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning spokesman
AJC Community Conversation with Superintendents from metro Atlanta
AJC Community Conversation with Superintendents from metro Atlanta
Posted by AJC on Wednesday, March 10, 2021
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Late last month, Kemp said 45% of school employees wanted vaccination, but Loke, his staffer, said the early surveys were inaccurate and upon closer inspection revealed that 63% of those surveyed, about 136,000 employees, want shots."},{"_id":"ZG4XV5V2QRDIHKMBLY6JFVC2NE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614980248868},"type":"text","content":"Teachers should not delay getting them, said Debbie Baker, who teaches third grade at Fairyland Elementary School, a North Georgia school within walking distance of the Tennessee line."},{"_id":"RSWTKCNTHZAH3IDAUE43ERGCGE","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614980248869},"type":"text","content":"Baker has already been vaccinated: Her school administration arranged appointments for staff at a pharmacy in Hamilton County in late February. 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Pitts hasn’t canceled her appointment for the second dose because she expects a lag time for teachers here when they become eligible next week."},{"_id":"XAUJ5VPAZBDQBC7KEWBNMUYE3Q","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614632116902},"type":"text","content":"“I have no faith that anything magical is going to happen on March the 8th,” Pitts said."},{"_id":"KI2T6XX4YBEVNDHT2EFX5CAKDM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614632116903},"type":"text","content":"Mary Souther teaches math at Decatur High School. Students are still online there, but not the track and cross country students she coaches. She thinks the safety protocols are good but worries about the exposure. She got her first shot on Sunday in Opelika, Alabama, at least a 3-hour round trip that she’ll have to repeat for her second dose in several weeks."},{"_id":"PDG5GS4OX5D4XDRWQGWQXR2QEU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614632116904},"type":"text","content":"“By the time I’m getting my second shot, I certainly hope most teachers in Decatur are getting their first one,” she said."},{"_id":"RL664MQY3ZEZTFTZ3VEZ36HE7A","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614632116905},"type":"text","content":"Emily Robinson, a DeKalb County high school teacher, is currently holding class online but grew “desperate and panicky” knowing that some of her students would start coming in-person on March 15. She drove more than three hours through rain and fog — and around a fiery pileup on I-75 — to a “super rural” county north of Chattanooga on Feb. 11 to get her first shot."},{"_id":"2ODYMB7XKNEKVFGGOTVGETLIKQ","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614644375785},"type":"text","content":"Robinson said the county vaccination workers inspected her school identification but didn’t ask for her driver’s license. She said she felt it was appropriate to go out of state: “We paid for the vaccine with taxes so we can go anywhere, that’s my understanding.”"},{"_id":"KIKQJIP5XRHODJXCQBRANXSNVI","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614644375786},"type":"text","content":"Some have been critical, though. 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The officials also point to some ongoing efforts to keep student costs low, such as encouraging students to take at least 15 credit hours a semester in order to graduate sooner and not take out loans to continue their education; offering free online textbooks and study materials, which they say has saved students about $82.5 million since 2014; and its “Know More, Borrow Less” initiative, an online tool that provides information about potentially less expensive loan options."},{"_id":"CRMZ6J2WCBFDRHLYC5BY57SSWM","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614182108248},"type":"text","content":"Georgia’s merit-based HOPE and Zell Miller scholarship programs have also helped, college leaders say. 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He also wants to make tuition free for students attending state colleges and universities with household incomes less than $125,000 and students attending community colleges."},{"_id":"B2G3SJPKVBEXFHOCHLYYQJCBIU","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614116926716},"type":"text","content":"Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and some Democrats propose canceling up to $50,000 in federal student debt and pausing student loan payments and interest accumulation for federal student loan borrowers for the entire duration of the COVID-19 pandemic."},{"_id":"RMR7PDGL7RFFRA2RTGLFRTTCN4","additional_properties":{"inline_comments":[],"comments":[],"_id":1614198062023},"type":"text","content":"Republicans have proposed plans, such as a cap on a student’s monthly payment of 12.5% of his or her monthly discretionary income. 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