daycare
Child care shortage drives construction contractor to create his own solution
Platte has been good to Tyler Samuelson and his family. Over the past 15 years, the owner of Summit Contracting has seen his family’s business grow into the largest employer in the south-central South Dakota town. Lately, Platte’s meager 1,300 population has become a problem for the growing business, which manufactures “anything on the farm […]
Statewide high school course trains students to become child care workers
There are 12,260 licensed child care slots in Sioux Falls, but 64% of child care centers can’t enroll their licensed capacity because they don’t have enough workers, according to the Sioux Falls Childcare Collaborative. That cuts actual available slots by hundreds — and it’s a familiar situation across the state. The collaborative presented the results […]
Early childhood groups come out against proposed daycare rules
Child care organizations came out in force on Friday against looser rules for daycares that would let adults care for more children at once. The pushback came even as some daycare providers lauded the changes as “actionable” steps to address what they described as the state’s child care crisis. Among other adjustments, the proposal from […]