Daycare centres in USA?

Question

I'm seeing posts about parents in the USA not wanting to send their children to daycares because they're concerned about the educators. Do you guys have regulations over there that the centres and educators have to follow? Do your educators have qualifications? I'm in Australia and we have to follow NQS (National quality standards), NQF (national quality framework), EYLF (early years learning framework), child to educator ratios and the centres get reviewed every couple of years. Also all the educators are either qualified or trainees working towards a qualification.
I'm genuinely curious about how centres are run over there (or any other country!) 😊

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Technically to work at a preschool, you need to take at least 2 college courses to be an assistant and 4 college courses to be a teacher.

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Yes, but many women in the US are sending their child to daycare at 6, 8 or 12 weeks old which is very unnerving

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I live in America and at my sons daycare all the staff have collage degrees in child development and so forth and there are strict rules and regulations for staff per child ratio and so much more from bottle feeding to sleeping and other rules and requirements they follow everyone here though I’ve noticed really bad mouth childcare a lot so I’m not sure if all centers are this way everywhere or if these people are taking their kids to private in home care or what but my sons daycare is excellent he learns so much he’s very good in sign language as well and is busy with activities all day and is happy to go

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There are absolutely rules and regulations. I was an early childhood educator for about 10 years before I moved into my current position as a Behavioral Health Professional (still working with kids, but now they're elementary school aged). I worked in 4 daycares/preschools in 3 different states here in those 10 years and they all required teachers to have college degrees in addition to various certifications like CPR and first aid. They all had appropriate child to teacher ratios and we had inspections from the state annually.

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I'm sure there are regulations but I'm uncomfortable with sending my LO to a daycare at such an early age. She is only 4 months and I'd prefer to send her when she's a little older and can communicate better, probably around 2 or 3. One of the issues is cost. To get into a really good daycare, not even what's considered a preschool can be expensive.

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Yes, we have regulations.

Daycare centres in USA?

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