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A Massachusetts Montessori school apologized and fired a teacher for instructing young children to make and wear Blackface masks as a Black History Month project. The incident, which happened in a classroom with toddlers, took place last Tuesday at IC Kids in Newton. When one mother, Nadirah Pierce, picked up her children and learned what had happened, she complained and…

Ashley Mendoza, of Hamden, said her sons spent more time at home than in daycare last December thanks to quarantine guidelines. “One or both children have been home in quarantine for about 75% of the time. So really for the full month of December,” said Mendoza. Since November, her inbox has been filled with notices from her daycare provider, requiring…

The Connecticut Health Department’s Quarantine Guidance Has Changed From 10 Days to 5. For Daycare’s however, the rules for children remain unclear.

A daycare in Tolland is closed through Jan. 10 after someone in one of their classrooms tested positive for COVID-19. Several staff members at the Tolland Kids Academy Child Center were directly exposed to the individual and need to quarantine for 10 days as a result, owner Lori Jackman said. Someone within the two-year-old classroom tested positive for the virus…

Hundreds of parents were left scrambling after learning their children’s daycare has closed until early next year due to a Covid-19 outbreak. The daycare said it made the move to keep its kids and staffers safe, however it does raise the question if we will see more closures like this going forward. Parents of more than 250 kids, plus 50…

A day care had to close with short notice to parents due to COVID-19 concerns.

There are seven daycares with COVID-19 cases in the Ledge Light Health District’s jurisdiction, which includes East Lyme, Groton, Ledyard, Lyme, New London, North Stonington, Old Lyme, Stonington and Waterford. “Some are isolated cases. There are a few small outbreaks, but two of them are significantly large outbreaks. Currently our largest daycare outbreak involves more than a dozen staff...

The Ledge Light Health District is putting people on high alert after seven daycares in their nine-town jurisdiction near New London have COVID cases.

Daycare centers struggling to stay open amid the pandemic will be getting some help from the Women’s Business Development Council.

The state will now require children age 3 and above to wear masks while at daycare or other childcare programs.

Daycares in Connecticut and across the country have been open since the COVID-19 pandemic started to take care of the children of essential workers. Now with more people heading back to work, more kids will be heading back to daycare.

Daycares in Connecticut and across the country have been open since the COVID-19 pandemic started to take care of the children of essential workers. Now with more people heading back to work, more kids will be heading back to daycare. About 1,552 daycares have remained open since the beginning of the pandemic. So how many COVID-19 cases have they experienced?…

The coronavirus pandemic has created a staggering child care crisis that threatens to undermine the tentative reopening of the U.S. economy, forcing many parents to choose between work and looking after their kids

“What are we gonna do?” When her second grader’s school closed, that was the question Shannon Curtis, an ER nurse educator and her husband, Brandon, a paramedic and electrician asked. Both were deemed essential workers. “What do you do? She can’t stay home alone. We can’t take her to work with us,” said Curtis, who works at UConn Hospital. Curtis said the...

With the coronavirus pandemic continuing, daycares are remaining open to help first responders and frontline healthcare workers be able to report to work.