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0000017d-2122-dd26-adfd-e56710b50000The New Classroom is a special reporting series, supported by The Walton Family Foundation, exploring the struggles, changes and innovations in education during the COVID-19 pandemic. You can find reports in this series listed below.

Essential Northwest Arkansas Child Care Providers Adapt to Pandemic

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Tammy Rowland, administrator of NWA Family Child Care Association, monitors Susan Meek’s Child Care Family Home in Fayetteville during a recent breakfast.";

Certain licensed home-based daycares, as well as childcare centers in Northwest Arkansas have permanently shut down due to the pandemic, but most continue to operate under strict COVID-19 state directives. We talk with the administrator of the NWA Family Child Care Association, as well as the founding director of Child Care Aware of Northwest Arkansas about how they and families are coping.

Jacqueline Froelich is an investigative reporter and news producer for Ozarks at Large.
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