Central Mass. child care providers say reopening guidelines hard to meet, especially for the preschool set - MetroWest Daily News
By Scott O’Connell
Some local child care providers are daunted by the state’s reopening guidelines, saying that while they understand the need to be safe during the pandemic, the new regulations will limit their ability to serve families…
For many small private child care providers around the region, however, it may be too late to reopen, said William Eddy, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Early Education and Care in Worcester.
“Their entire revenue streams went away” in March, he said. “Those programs are under tremendous stress right now, and some quite frankly won’t be coming back.”