Department of Education
State Board of Education
Standards for Licensed Child Day Centers
[8 VAC 20 ‑ 781]
(Under Development)
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Opened on 12/1/2025 and
closes at 11:59pm on 1/30/2026
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| Comment Title | Commenter | |
|---|---|---|
| Developmentally appropriate toilet learning | Bethany Blalock RD | 1/18/26 9:40 am |
| Proposal to Align Supervision Standards with Developmental Science (Sight and Sound) | Leonid Petrov (University of Virginia) | 1/18/26 4:02 am |
| NAEYC Has Lanauage for Supervision | Anonymous (238950) | 1/17/26 11:19 pm |
| Supervising 9 year olds and 6 months with the same intensity is absurd - children deserve freedom | Jennifer Slack, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/17/26 11:17 pm |
| Various Concerns, including Stock Epi | Benita Petrella Primrose School of Midlothian Village | 1/17/26 4:47 pm |
| Unintended consequences of new regulations. | Sara Tansey, ONCDC | 1/17/26 4:10 pm |
| Cleaning Soft Materials | Miriam Skadron, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/17/26 2:26 pm |
| Ratios Should Not Be Increased | Miriam Skadron, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/17/26 2:25 pm |
| Supervision | Miriam Skadron, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/17/26 2:23 pm |
| Teacher to Child Ratios | María Vides | 1/16/26 3:55 pm |
| This needs another draft | Jackie Burke | 1/16/26 3:55 pm |
| Too Much Laundry | Mary Turner, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:52 pm |
| Sight and Sound Supervision and Physical Barriers | María Vides | 1/16/26 3:50 pm |
| Sandbox | Anonymous (238939) | 1/16/26 3:46 pm |
| Sand Boxes | Atlas Savage, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:42 pm |
| Sight and Sound supervision and physical barriers | Mary Turner, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:35 pm |
| Soft Items | Atlas Savage, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:33 pm |
| Increased ratios are the best way to kill this field | Shane Everhart, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:32 pm |
| Addition of requirement to keep an AED on childcare sites | Atlas Savage, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:31 pm |
| Who is this for? 8VAC20-781-70 C 4 | Anonymous (238933) | 1/16/26 3:26 pm |
| Supervision lapses | Ben Hyde, Our Neighborhood CDC | 1/16/26 3:26 pm |
| Allowance for Stock of Narcan | Atlas Savage, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:25 pm |
| Regulation 8VAC20-781-650 C | Atlas Savage, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:20 pm |
| Reducing Soft Items Available in the Classroom | Anonymous (238928) | 1/16/26 3:20 pm |
| New language around laundering soft items. | Ben Hyde, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:20 pm |
| Sand boxes | Dawn Bryant, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/16/26 3:20 pm |
| The Economic Review Form is intentionally false and misleading | Jennifer Slack, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/15/26 10:15 am |
| Say no to increased ratios | Robin Criscuolo DeButts, Robin’s Nest Nature Playschool | 1/14/26 2:20 pm |
| It is never a good idea to increase teacher-child ratios. | Jennifer Slack, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/14/26 11:30 am |
| Lapses in supervision should be reported to parents but not the Department | Anonymous (238919) | 1/14/26 9:55 am |
| Supervision Lapses and Reporting Requirements | Anonymous (238918) | 1/14/26 3:51 am |
| We believe that parents need to know about supervision lapses, regulators do not. | Jennifer Slack, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/13/26 11:24 am |
| Control over visual media consumption in early childhood should be in the hands of parents | Jennifer Slack, Our Neighborhood Child Development Center | 1/13/26 10:11 am |
| Regulating Visual Media | Putnam Ivey | 1/13/26 9:58 am |
| I stand with ONCDC | Anonymous (238910) | 1/13/26 9:54 am |
| Proposed Amendment to 8VAC20-781-310: Requiring Parental Permission for Visual Media Use | Leonid Petrov | 1/12/26 1:46 pm |
| hiring | Mrs. Bee's Learning Academy | 12/19/25 12:27 pm |
| Changes to create better centers for children and families | Mrs. Bee's Learning Academy | 12/16/25 12:47 pm |
| 5 areas of comments | Primrose School Va Beach | 12/14/25 1:54 pm |
| Update Needed: Out-of-State Background Check Requirements | Anonymous (238534) | 12/9/25 2:47 pm |
| suggested change to self reporting regulations | Anonymous (238533) | 12/9/25 2:44 pm |
| You did not listen to providers' comments from the last round | Anonymous (238188) | 12/1/25 5:05 pm |
| The proposed changes miss the point entirely. | Anonymous (238163) | 12/1/25 2:51 pm |
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