Registered? State Requirements?

[nannyde]

I am in Iowa and working on getting registered. By looking at the handbook I'm not seeing any requirements that seem unreasonable? Are there more that are not all listed in there that I don't know about? We are trying to get the house together and following all the "rules" but my DH is afraid we will get hit by another list of things that need to get done. How do I know?

Iowa is very reasonable. Middle of the country with middle of the road capacity requirements and middle of the road regs. It's a lot of points of compliance (I think I counted around five hundred) but they are all pretty easy to execute. It's just keeping all five hundred things in place for the one day they show up knocking at your door. If you are perfect they will hit you again and again... cuz you are easy to inspect.

We HAVE to be licensed by June 30 2013 so it won't be an option after that.

[MsMe]

Iowa is very reasonable. Middle of the country with middle of the road capacity requirements and middle of the road regs. It's a lot of points of compliance (I think I counted around five hundred) but they are all pretty easy to execute. It's just keeping all five hundred things in place for the one day they show up knocking at your door. If you are perfect they will hit you again and again... cuz you are easy to inspect.

We HAVE to be licensed by June 30 2013 so it won't be an option after that.

I am very interested in telling my non-reg 'frriend" about this. As it is now you can watch 5 kids (inc your own). right? Will ti be 0 when the regulations changes? I didn't pay much attentions but i think she was complaining about not being allowed as many daycare deductions this year as in teh past bc she was not registered. I will have my CDA in a few weeks. I know that it is going to be a requirement that all Daycare center staff have theirs in a few years. Do you know if this will also affect homes? What about those of us that are two provider "C" will one or both be reequired?

Wow I kinda went crazy with the questions there ...sorry....do you know of any reasources I could use to learn more?

[MsMe]

oh and yes Iowa is VERY resonable.

[nannyde]

I am very interested in telling my non-reg 'frriend" about this. As it is now you can watch 5 kids (inc your own). right? Will ti be 0 when the regulations changes? I didn't pay much attentions but i think she was complaining about not being allowed as many daycare deductions this year as in teh past bc she was not registered. I will have my CDA in a few weeks. I know that it is going to be a requirement that all Daycare center staff have theirs in a few years. Do you know if this will also affect homes? What about those of us that are two provider "C" will one or both be reequired?

Wow I kinda went crazy with the questions there ...sorry....do you know of any reasources I could use to learn more?

I will have my CDA in a few weeks. I know that it is going to be a requirement that all Daycare center staff have theirs in a few years. No I don't think that is true. They don't even have to have a high school education or a GED. They just have to have the age of 16 to be a co "teacher" and an age of 18 to be a "teacher". They don't have to have any college whatsoever much less middle school either.

It wouldn't make sense to have them go from not even having to have any kind of middle school or high school education to having to have a degree. The center director doesn't even have to have a degree... in anything.

If Center staff were to have to have a CDA it would rock the daycare world in iowa. They would be closing right and left.

five kids TOTAL under the age of five can be in a unregistered home with only three under two and that includes providers children.

To my knowledge CAT C2 is not changed. One of the providers in CAT C has to either have a degree now or five years experience. I have a degree so I don't keep up on that. I'm a CAT C1 now but will most likely expand to a 2 in the fall.

[MsMe]

I will have my CDA in a few weeks. I know that it is going to be a requirement that all Daycare center staff have theirs in a few years. No I don't think that is true. They don't even have to have a high school education or a GED. They just have to have the age of 16 to be a co "teacher" and an age of 18 to be a "teacher". They don't have to have any college whatsoever much less middle school either.

It wouldn't make sense to have them go from not even having to have any kind of middle school or high school education to having to have a degree. The center director doesn't even have to have a degree... in anything.

If Center staff were to have to have a CDA it would rock the daycare world in iowa. They would be closing right and left.

five kids TOTAL under the age of five can be in a unregistered home with only three under two and that includes providers children.

To my knowledge CAT C2 is not changed. One of the providers in CAT C has to either have a degree now or five years experience. I have a degree so I don't keep up on that. I'm a CAT C1 now but will most likely expand to a 2 in the fall.

It took me awhile to find it but I looked up where I saw the "All center staff must have a CDA information"

Yes and no

it was in powerpoint presentation at eh CDA meetign i went to before I enrolled in the program Dec 2009.

For a center to get NAEYC accreditation (new 2006 regulations)
75% lead teachers need at least a CDA
50% of assistant teachers need CDA and all thoses who are no must be enroleld in the program

By 2010
100% of all teachers must have a CDA
50% of teachers need associate's Degree

By 2015
100% of teachers need associate's degree
50% of teachers need bachelor's degree

There is also similar rules for Head start preschool teachers.

All the women in my class were from the same center and all stated that they were required to get their CDA to keep their jobs. They did talk a lot about their center being in the process with NAECY. I just made the leep that this ment all centers. Only centers that whant accredidation will be held to these standards.

[nannyde]

It took me awhile to find it but I looked up where I saw the "All center staff must have a CDA information"

Yes and no

it was in powerpoint presentation at eh CDA meetign i went to before I enrolled in the program Dec 2009.

For a center to get NAEYC accreditation (new 2006 regulations)
75% lead teachers need at least a CDA
50% of assistant teachers need CDA and all thoses who are no must be enroleld in the program

By 2010
100% of all teachers must have a CDA
50% of teachers need associate's Degree

By 2015
100% of teachers need associate's degree
50% of teachers need bachelor's degree

There is also similar rules for Head start preschool teachers.

All the women in my class were from the same center and all stated that they were required to get their CDA to keep their jobs. They did talk a lot about their center being in the process with NAECY. I just made the leep that this ment all centers. Only centers that whant accredidation will be held to these standards.

Yes just the NAYEC ones. It's not the State saying you have to. Really they don't care. They know they would be up against BIG money chain centers if they even required the staff to have a GED.

Center staff here don't have to have ANY education at all. Not a high school diploma or even a GED. They have never had to have it in all the years I have done it and I don't remember ANY legislation to even require them to have a third grade education.

The director has to have a GED but that's it.

Look on page 46 of this: http://www.dhs.state.ia.us/policyana...er/comm204.pdf

[DaisyMamma]

Where I am you cant watch other people's kids in your house, period. Family members might be an exception. You simply have to be licensed. I've been doing it under the table for a while, but I need to get more kids (I only have a couple of part timers) and I can't just advertise because I'll get busted. $100 per day per child if you get caught!
It hasn't cost much so far, but will be worth it.
Tomorrow is the big day. The licensee will be here at 10am.
Hopefully they don't find too many things wrong.