House Bill 92
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Feb 8, 2006
On Wednesday, February 1st, in Laramie WY on the UW campus, Deanna Frey of the Wyoming Children's Action Alliance came to speak at the Grassroots meeting on behalf of House Bill 92, "Quality Childcare."
The Federal Reserve Bank conducted a multi-year research on economic stimuli that are most effective in spurring and sustaining a vibrant economy. Art Rolnick concludes that investment in early child development is the single wisest investment for economic growth.
House Bill 92 contains the following items:
1) rate all of the early child-care providers across Wyoming according to a five-star system
2) Invest in training and education of early child-care providers
3) subsidize the early child care programs up to the national standard of "quality" childcare.
House Bill 92 is asking for 14 million during the upcoming budget session. They will have to negotiate money with the competing education proposal of the Hathaway scholarship.
At the conclusion of last Wednesday's meeting in Laramie, 16 participants agreed to contact their Senator Phil Nicholas to express their support for House Bill 92, and to urge him to do the same.