BRATTLEBORO — Chloe Learey, executive director of Winston Prouty Center for Child Development in Brattleboro, has been named to the Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High Quality, Affordable Child Care.
The purposes of the commission are to inventory and review reports and recommendations issued over the past 10 years relating to high quality, affordable child care; to determine the elements inherent in all quality child care programs; and to make recommendations to the General Assembly and the Governor on the most effective use of existing public funding and additional opportunities.
The commission, comprised of 17 members and chaired by Secretary of Administration Justin Johnson, will report its findings to the Governor and selected legislative committees on or before Nov. 1, 2016.
Learey will be the representative of licensed center-based early learning and development programs in the State. She has been the executive director of Winston Prouty Center over eight years. She has written many articles on early childhood development and is the host of a monthly cable show, Family Matters.
In accepting the Governor's appointment, Learey said in a news release that “it is important for voices from southern Vermont to be represented in statewide forums such as the Blue Ribbon Commission. If we are going to successfully support our youngest citizens to develop optimally, we need to have groups like this commission zero in on critical issues that affect families and young children such as high-quality, affordable early learning programs.”