Page 12 University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1982
Cuts in aid raising cost of daycare
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
In the few hours she spends each evening with her children, Diana Patterson forgets the worries of an uncertain future.
Like many single parents at the University of Kansas, Patterson, a Lawrence senior, is struggling through her studies, independently support her young family.
But any further cuts in daycare funding may force her and others on federal assistance programs to abandon plans for a self-supporting career, according to Martha Langley, financial administrator at the Hilltop Daycare Center.
"The problem is that a lot of student-parents are trying to get through school with heavy loads," Langley said. "A lot of students who take classes especially if the classes have labs, find
it difficult to find time to work 30 hours a week."
Many would have to work nights and weekends if more cuts were made. This would create an additional child who could be cared for on a borne life with the child, she said.
"Some have told me they are borrowing from any source they can," she said.
CHILDCARE CUTS effective last fall have severely affected several single-parent students in federally aided programs at the center, Langley said.
Student-parents who do not work are now inible for Title XX funding. This funding was designated for service organizations that help people become independent, she said. Those that do work, she said, have paid an increased share in daycare fees since the October cut.
The other federal cut has affected those families that receive Aid to Families with Dependent Children. A
new payment method has forced parents to pay large amounts of daycare in advance before reimbursement, Langley said.
Originally, ADC's child care funding was paid directly to the center after an individual "needs assessment," based on the parent's income.
PATTERSON, WHOSE daycare is funded by ADC, pay $380 in advance for her daughter's kindergarten daycare after the initial cuts. The fee amounted to almost one-fourth of her family's income for the three-month period.
Jim Baze, section chief of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services in Lawrence, said that because of drastic federal cuts, the department had given prior priority to low-income employed parents.
Baze said that federal funding cuts for child care in the Lawrence-Topeka
area totaled almost $1 million last year and about $500,000 in 1982.
Because the increased share in daycare fees is only one of several federal cuts affecting single college parents, Patterson and others are about finishing school and supporting a family on poverty-ridden incomes.
"When it comes right down to black and white, we are in daycare so that we can get a degree so that we can work for the community," Society said.
KIM MARTIN, Lawrence senior, has a son in half-day daycare at the Hilltop center. She said the cuts were illogical because students needed help now for the degrees that would make them dependent of federal assistance in the future.
Patterson said that in spite of increasing hardships, she was determined to finish school and become self-supporting.
To supplement food stamps and her ADC check, she said, she works after classes as a tutor and grades papers, which leaves late evening and early mornings to study and take care of her home and family.
"I'm sure daycare providers would rather have the agency be overly conservative than unable to come up with the funds later," he said.
Baze said that SRS, like many state agencies, was cautious about spending money because they feared future cuts in social programs.
with the ramifications.
Student-parent funding would be increased if more federal money became available, Baze said.
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