| Last Updated: | 2/19/2010 |
| Budget Issue: | Governor proposes lowering reimbursement ceilings for licensed child care providers from 85th percentile to 75th percentile of regional market rates (RMR) using 2005 RMR survey data. |
| Program: | California Department of Education |
| Finding or Recommendation: | Reject Governor's proposal. Instead use the 2009 RMR survey and set reimbursement ceilings at whatever level is roughly comparable to current-law rates. We estimate this would be at about the 60th percentile of the 2009 RMR. |
For more detail, please see the "Provider Reimbursement Rates" section of our report, The 2010-11 Budget: Proposition 98 and K-12 Education.