_Editorial— Child care funding needs more clarity Many funding changes have taken place in Ihe EMU Child Care Program during the last month The program received a $ 100.000 grant from the Oregon State Scholarship Commission, a $42,-40fi student funding increase to pay for state mandated wage in creases and a $t>0.000 decrease in the Incidental Fee Committee's original budget allocation for next year All these c hanges can be confusing, espec ially to students without children who pay fees to help sup port the program rhe program and the Child Care Task l*orc»? have been working for the past lew years to find alternate? means of funding for the child care program After much student lobby ing in Salem and V\ ashington !).<. . the EMU Child Care Program received a pilot grant of $100,000 for 10*10-0 l subsidy's l ast week the Chibi Care Program went before the1 II C to return $-40,000 of its original $222,740 alloc a tion The ASUO backed the figure with its own recoin inundation For some reason the II C decided to reduce tin* allocation by $00,000 instead. It is reasonable for the Child Care Program to re turn some of its original alloc ation, but $00,000 might have been too mui h lor the 1KC to take bac k The: subsidy program is trying to line! ways to ex pand its funding capabilities. Currently, subsidy's only cover half of the cost of half-time care (20-25 hours a week). Next year the program will expand to cover halt of the cost of full-time care (-40-50 hours a week), re ducing parents’ out of poc kel child c are costs With an extra $20,000 removed, the subsidy program may not be able to alloc ate funding to all the parents who need it Herein lies the ie.il problem Then- are no real lig ures ,is to how main parents actually need child care and or a subsidy lor child i are. No needs assessment has been done The ASLJO, the Child Care Task Fort e, parents and probably students who help pa\ lor the child < are program tire frustrated. The University needs to work with the child care program, the ASUO, student parents and the Child Care Task Force to lind an accurate assessment of child care needs on campus. Student parents need child care subsidy's to attend si bool. College is expensive. Imagine the extra costs for a single parent? Many potential students who are parents are shut out of an education on a purely finan cial basis. That should not be the case Concerned organizations on this campus should work together to find a way, either through registration or in tin1 University application process, to find out how many student parents there are at the University. Once this is accomplished, the IFC and outside fund ing sources will know what their needs are. and can base decisions on factual information not just assump tions. Oregon l)uil» _ _ Emerald I’ •) Kn\ '1^1 ► u|frn< (>t rjc<*« V*40 \ Tf . 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