Supporting Each Other with Dr. Syretha Storey

10/21/19 • 41 min

Shaun Rose, a former litigator, public school teacher, and political advisor, and current nonprofit, center based child care provider, interviews Dr. Syretha Storey, a MD child care center director and owner of The Child Care Company. Dr. Storey and Shaun discuss things providers can do to support each other, the need for more focus on self care, and the biggest issues facing providers today. Shaun also talks about the need for MD providers to send in comments on the proposed licensing regulations (more information can be found at http://www.mocomscca.org/blog), and the latest news on the Kirwan Commission's proposed changes to MD's public education system and addition of a Universal Pre-K scheme (see these links for more details: MD Association of Counties Blog & Conduit Street Podcast, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/theres-good-reason-for-jitters-about-marylands-massive-school-spending-plan/2019/10/18/6f1f6d6e-f10e-11e9-b648-76bcf86eb67e_story.html, https://www.baltimoresun.com/education/bs-md-what-is-kirwan-commission-20190930-d76c5hkgkrfutomwzdax7ls6b4-story.html).
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Shaun Rose, a former litigator, public school teacher, and political advisor, and current nonprofit, center based child care provider, interviews Elliot Haspel, author of Crawling Behind: America's Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It. Elliot and Shaun discuss the issues with our current system of child care, including the difficult & often illogical choices we have to make in an under-resourced system, and Elliot's ideas about what we need to do fix things.
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