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Affordable child care top need, outgoing state official says
Louisiana's most pressing child care challenge is trimming the waiting list of working families seeking affordable care for more than 5,000 children, the official who oversees the program said Tuesday.
"To me it is a no-brainer," said Jenna Conway, assistant superintendent for early childhood in the state Department of Education.
"We have all these working families trying to better the lives of their kids and we cannot find the way to make the investment," said Conway, who is leaving her post June 1.
The aid, called the Child Care Assistance Program, or CCAP, has been decimated by state budget cuts since 2008.
Read more: http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/education/article_7fd00514-5dcc-11e8-b940-1f30dd1504a6.html