How Battle Creek is tackling the childcare crisis
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Battle Creek childcare center is able to provide free services to low-income families through a number of community partner...
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — A Battle Creek childcare center is able to provide free services to low-income families through a number of community partners putting their heads together to try to fix the growing number of childcare centers shutting down.While the number of childcares shutting down in Michigan is slowing down since the pandemic, there are still a lot of centers still closing their doors. According to the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, from April 2020 to April 2022, 548 in-home family daycares shut their doors and 36 childcare centers did the same.