The pandemic-era relief kept some operators afloat while others used the money for training and other enhancements, which are now in peril.
With federal funding ending, 36% of child care providers in Bexar County say they could close their doors in the coming months.Good Samaritan Community Services, which provides low-cost child care through an early Head Start program, has flourished in recent years.
Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.the tuition was already heavily discounted to help parents in need, and Salas said the goal is to not raise it. The potential closures come after a wave of providers closed over the course of the pandemic, wiping out, according to data from the advocacy organization Children At Risk.
The National Association for the Education of Young Children has standards of one teacher to six students from ages 1 to 3 and 10 students for 4- and 5-year-olds. The possibility of closures in a region that already has a shortage of high-quality child care could impact the academic careers of students, according to Mark Larson, the executive director of Early Matters San Antonio.
“If we lose child-care centers, we are going to potentially lose folks that are either going to school, getting trained or actually working,” he said. A shared services model fostered by Pre-K 4 SA, which launched prior to the pandemic, has allowed providers to pool costs for services, curricula and even staff in order to save money.
“One of the biggest things is being able to bring better quality of care to the children,” Bermea said. “One of the great benefits was a lot of my teachers were able to get their CDA, which is get certified to be able to teach the kids and not just watch the kids.”
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