Staff Report
(Massachusetts) Massachusetts will offer a version of its school coronavirus “test-and-stay” program for child care centers in the upcoming weeks. Samantha Aigner-Treworgy, commissioner of the state Department of Early Education and Care, tells The Boston Globe the program will help keep young children exposed to COVID-19 in the classroom rather than quarantining at home and allow parents to go to work. Early education providers and many parents of preschool children have been pushing for such a program, that has been lauded as successful in public schools. Details of the program are still being worked out.