Government
Closing the Child Care Access Gap
It’s not just a matter of affordability. It’ll take an “infrastructure investment,” a new report claims.
In April, Creative Learning Preschool in the center of downtown Madison, Wisconsin, launched an ambitious campaign: to raise half a million dollars to buy the building they had operated out of for 19 years. As rents continue to spike in Madison, public day cares have struggled to stay in place. The only other nonprofit child care option for downtown parents, Red Caboose, announced a move to the east side of the city in September.
If Creative Learning were forced out, “there would be nobody here and people would have to commute to take their children to day care,” Mary Flanner, Creative Learning’s executive director, told WISC-TV Madison.