WASHINGTON 鈥� A proposal to exempt children鈥檚 play groups from day-care type regulations is moving forward in the D.C. Council.
The Council passed the legislation without debate on the consent calendar Tuesday night.聽The legislation will be up for a second and final vote on Dec. 18.
is inspired in part by the District鈥檚 Superintendent of Education requiring the Capitol Hill Cooperative Play School to get a license. Similar situations where parents take turns monitoring kids also are in place
The Office of the State Superintendent of Education and believes the informal playgroups should follow license rules. Among the requirements is that a full-time staff person with a degree in early childhood education oversee operations.
hosts 2-year-olds at the Lutheran Church of the Reformation where it was founded decades ago.
鈥淚 think it鈥檚 an overreach by the government to come in and try to regulate something that鈥檚 been an informal cooperative play group by parents for the last 40 years and has worked incredibly well,鈥� Ward 6 councilmember Charles Allen has said previously.
to allow “parent-led cooperatives” to be exempt from licensing would require however, that the playgroups have written policies and procedures for emergency preparedness, responses to and prevention of food allergies, and for handling health information.
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