Day Cares Receive Money After Failing to Meet Standards

The state gave at least $355 million to day cares across Georgia over the past four years. The money came from Childcare and Parent Services Program (CAPS) and a Department of Early Care and Learning pre-kindergarten program funded by the purchase of lottery tickets, according to the AJC.

Woodstock-Towne Lake has seven centers that received subsidy money for either their child-care or preschool programs that failed to meet health and safety standards.

You can see a full list of the programs and their scores in the AJC database.

Center Year Score Subsidy 2008 Yellow (noncompliant) $23,914 for child-care programs and $223,919.72 for pre-K programs 2011 NC (noncompliant) $7,444 for child-care programs Terisa Hill-Johnson 2010 2 (Out of possible 4. Scores of 1 and 2 are considered noncompliant) $280 for child-care programs 2008 Yellow (noncompliant) $10,084 for child-care programs and $383,136.44 for pre-K programs 2008 NC (noncompliant) $135,371.23 and $15,128.41 for pre-K programs 2008 and 2009 Yellow (noncompliant); 2 (Out of possible 4. Scores of 1 and 2 are considered noncompliant) $2,115 and $2,328 for child-care programs 2008 No score $9,451 for child-care programs