As noted in the eNews a month ago, IRFA submitted a comment in response to the administration’s proposed new regulations for the federal child-care funding program. The IRFA comment stressed that the child care law was carefully designed to maximize participation by faith-based child care providers and it flagged several elements of the proposed regulations that would undermine that broad participation. Among other things, the draft regulations would decrease the use of vouchers to fund child care, steering more money into contracts, a form of federal funding that is much more religiously restrictive.

Other organizations also submitted comments stressing that the government should take care not to undermine the openness of the program to faith-based participation. See the comments submitted by:

Agudath Israel
Association of Christian Schools International
Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance
US Conference of Catholic Bishops