Dozens of providers and supporters rallied in downtown Baltimore on May 1 to ask the Department of Education to pay its debt to Maryland’s children.

Providers delivered oversized invoices for months of unpaid child care, listing the cost to kids and working families: over 100,000 hours of early education and care for thousands of children.

Providers struggling with late pay told their stories to reporters from all four local news stations and the Baltimore Sun:

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