Coronavirus Causes Closure Of Massachusetts Childcare Facilities Starting Monday
BOSTON (CBS) – Gov. Charlie Baker announced Wednesday that all daycares in Massachusetts will be ordered to close amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Beginning Monday, March 23, all early education centers and child care providers must close.
Emergency procedures are being put into place so that exempt programs will allow childcare for first responders, medical staff, and other critical personnel.
“Families who work to maintain the health, safety, and welfare of all Commonwealth citizens will receive priority access to these emergency childcare programs,” said Baker. “Vulnerable children will also receive priority access. We’ll work hard to make space for people who must go to work but aren’t necessarily emergency personnel available as well.”
Preschool Social Academy in Winchester has remained open in the midst of the coronavirus concern. For the school’s operator, Kimberly Higgins, it has not been an easy decision as social distancing is harder with young children.
“We’ve been taking proper precautions but they are children, and it’s hard for them to understand. It’s also been hard to operate under a sense of calm for them.”
She’s been questioning why statewide, schools have been ordered closed but not early learning centers.
She says this decision now gives them answers.
“The Governor has a lot of people on his team that are giving him answers to questions about whether it’s safe. He has ...
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