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  • Washington Informer

    Early Child Care Educators Among Those Lamenting Slow COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout

    January 27, 2021
    Early Childhood Education

    With Term 3 of the academic year scheduled to start next week, teachers across the District remain in a race to get the highly coveted but scarce coronavirus vaccine.

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  • Washington City Paper

    Child Care Providers to Get Vaccinated in February

    January 26, 2021
    Early Childhood Health and Safety

    Looks like child care providers will start getting vaccinated in February. The news comes as a relief for members of the early care and education community, many of whom have been working in-person for months.

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  • WAMU

    D.C. To Cut Funding For Homeless Services As Coronavirus Cases Surge

    December 9, 2020
    Budget and Legislative Advocacy Health and Safety

    D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration is pulling back funding from local nonprofits that serve residents experiencing homelessness, DCist/WAMU has learned. The funding cuts could force some of the affected nonprofits to shrink their programs, from day centers to street outreach, lay off.

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