{"id":1212,"date":"2024-05-28T18:06:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-28T22:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?page_id=1212"},"modified":"2024-06-12T21:01:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T01:01:54","slug":"childcare-and-education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/?page_id=1212","title":{"rendered":"Childcare and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caring for children is important work that helps children grow into healthy, well adjusted people who can contribute to society.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Quality Childcare currently is unaffordable for many Vermont families and childcare workers are are often not paid enough to live. <b>We can change this.<\/b> Quality childcare is an essential expense that benefits the society as a whole and we need to invest in providing it for all children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Government and employers need to work together to create quality childcare options that include having a parent stay at home with young children and well run child care centers that support people\u2019s work schedules. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I strongly support public education in which young people are exposed to wide range of ideas and an honest account of our history.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>We also need to nurture critical thinking skills and help young people understand how they are influenced by the media they consume. Everyone needs access to education that will<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>allow them to develop the knowledge and skills they need to contribute to society according to their ability without being severely handicapped by debt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caring for children is important work that helps children grow into healthy, well adjusted people who can contribute to society.\u00a0 Quality Childcare currently is unaffordable for many Vermont families and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":0,"parent":1148,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1212\/revisions\/1259"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmountainpeaceandjusticeparty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}