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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, I was wrong.  Montgomery County's reaction to the state reopening all daycares is to block all new daycares from reopening until further notice.

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But just until we go to phase 2, right? Which in theory may be next week?  Stupid, but if it’s a week delay I can deal with it.  [/quote]

Yeah, that's what they're staying, but I don't really believe anything they're saying at this point.

I must admit, I'm also fixating on this.  I'm outraged at how the county has handled this.  I've already filed a few Public Information Act requests for records, and will probably do a couple more with different parts of county government.

I've also been talking to my Councilmember's office.  Though, that just pissed me off even more.  They say they're getting a lot of questions/concerns about this, but they couldn't provide me with a single example of something Councilmember Rice has done to try to make things better.[/quote]

Please come back and update this thread if you hear back from them.[/quote]

To clarify, I already talked to a bunch of people. I talked to the Councilmember's chief of staff. I emailed with the Assistant Superintendent of Maryland Public Schools.  I talked to the Director of Montgomery County's Child Care Resource and Referral Center (who seems to be stepping into a quasi-regulatory role, at least temporarily).

It' pretty clear nothing is going to happen.  The state has no control over what Montgomery County does anymore, so don't expect the Department of Education to save us.  The Child Care Resource and Referral Center simply doesn't care.  Within the same 60 second period, she claimed she had nothing to do with interpreting what the County Executive Order's text on child care means, while later acknowledging she wrote the language on the county website that required EPCC providers.   And the councilmember's office offered condolences for the difficult situation, but may it clear that Rice would not take any step to try to reopen daycares before Elrich does.  The claim was actually the councilmember couldn't do anything even if he wanted to, which I don't think is true (I posted about that issue in the local politics forum).

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