Two legislative reports of interest were just released
February 2025
Laws of Minnesota 2023, chapter 70, article 13, section 25 directed the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to develop a child care and early education professional wage scale and a process for recognizing comparable competencies for use in a wage scale, based on the recommendations made by the Great Start for All Minnesota Children Task Force.Click here to download the report.
Minnesota has long used market prices to set reimbursement rates for its child care subsidy program, the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP). Under this approach, child care providers report what they charge families for care and those prices are analyzed by provider type, age group and geography; the data is then used to calculate a percentile of prices by those variations, which is presented to the legislature for review. Click here to download the report.