Childcare
Princeton Public Schools are closed until at least April 30. We will continue to offer Tiger Club Childcare (aka Corona Care) as an option for our district staff, Tier 1 Healthcare & Emergency staff and Essential Tier 2 workers who live in our school district.
Here is a link to the Minnesota Department of Educations website where you can view which jobs are included in this tiered system under School Age Care for Children of Emergency Workers:
https://education.mn.gov/MDE/dse/health/covid19/
Registration & Other Information
- Location of Child Care
- Safety & Security
- Registration & Cost
- Hours of Operation & Meal Information
- Transportation
- Tier 2 Registration
Location of Child Care
- Pre-K childcare for ages 3 to 5 will be offered at the Family Center located at 706 1st Street. This is for children that have not yet started Kindergarten. These families will use door 21 on 7th Avenue.
- Kindergarten through 5th grade childcare will be offered at the Primary School located at 1206 7th Ave N. These families will enter the main doors.
Safety & Security
- There will be a greeter at the entry door at each site. This is the drop off site and only students and childcare workers will be allowed past this point.
- Your registration will be verified on the calendar to ensure you are registered
- Your child must be signed in
- We will have 2 healthcare workers at each site to ensure students are safe and well.
- We will be operating in groups of 10 children per classroom and will be following the recommended practice of social distancing at lunch and outdoor play times.
- Students will remain in the same room each day with the same children and we will clean and sanitize daily.
Registration & Cost
- Register for the Corona Care class in RevTrack. All current Tiger Club families, staff members, and emergency workers needing childcare will need to register. If you are not pre-registered your child will not be permitted to attend.
- Upon registration, you will be asked to pick the days of attendance. All families must use this online calendar so that we can properly staff our program. Your child will be unable to attend on dates not selected on the calendar.
- The cost of care will be the Tiger Club full day rate of $32 per day for current Tiger Club enrolled students. District employees will be at no cost during the school day 7:30am to 3:00pm. There will be no charge for emergency workers between 6:00am and 6:00pm. There will be no registration fees for this course.
Hours of Operation & Meal Information
Transportation
- "Normal School Hours" is defined at 8am to 3pm.
- If you are a qualified Emergency Services Worker, we can transport your child(ren) to and from Tiger Club during "normal school hours". If students need care before or after "normal school hours" then families are responsible for transporting them to and from Tiger Club.
- If you need transportation please select that option during registration, and Palmer will contact you with approximate pick up and drop off times.
Tier 2 Registration
- We will be providing care for 3 through 12 year olds during the school day.
- We can extend the school day care (8am to 3pm) to between the hours of 6am and 6pm if your scheduled work day goes beyond school hours.
- Currently the extended day will be at no cost while circumstances allow us to do this. If conditions change we may need to charge in the future for hours outside of the school day.
- We will take as many children as we can accommodate with the current staff. Your child(ren) may be placed on a waiting list depending on staff availability and our ability to maintain recommended social distancing.
- We will be verifying employment and work schedules with your supervisor at work. We can provide care ONLY for your scheduled working hours.
- You can register now here. We will contact you with a start date after we have verified employment and have secured childcare staff. We ask that you please be patient during this process.
- After staffing is secured and your employment and work schedule is verified, we will push you into the class and you will receive an email.
- There is a health screening that is conducted each day as your child arrives. Please come into the building with your child(ren) for drop off and pick up.
- If a student’s temperature spikes while in our care we will call you and ask that your child remains home for 3 days fever free before returning. We would prefer that any siblings remain home as well.
- Students will be assigned to grade level groups so that we can assist them with their online learning. Group sizes will be from 5 to 10 students.
Definitions
Tier 1 Emergency Workers
Under the Governor’s Executive Order 20-20, free school-age care for the children of emergency workers (including providers of healthcare, emergency medical services, long-term and post-acute care; law enforcement personnel; personnel providing correctional services; public health employees; firefighters and other first responders; and court personnel) was outlined. The orders directed schools to provide care to, at a minimum, district-enrolled students aged 12 and under.
You will be asked to provide a letter from your employer or a current employee badge or credential verifying your employment at the door on your first day of childcare before your child enters, along with your immediate supervisors or Human Resources phone number so that we can call your employer for employment verification.
In order to ensure that we are providing for the needs of our students, we are clarifying the work that falls within each of the identified emergency workers categories.
- Healthcare Personnel
- Emergency Medical Services Personnel (full-time)
- Law Enforcement Personnel
- Firefighter Personnel
- Minnesota Correctional Facility Staff
- Centralized Correctional Operations Personnel
- Minnesota Correctional Supervision Services
- Public Health Employees
- Court Personnel
Healthcare Personnel
Emergency Medical Services Personnel (full-time)
Law Enforcement Personnel
Firefighter Personnel
Minnesota Correctional Facility Staff
- Corrections officers
- Correctional Lieutenants
- Correctional Captains
- Physical plant
- Correctional facility case managers
- Correctional facility educators and educational paraprofessionals
- Wardens
- Associate wardens
- Correctional facility office assistants
- Correctional facility nurses and supervisors
- Correctional program therapists
- Correctional facility IT staff
- Correctional facility Human Resources staff
- Correctional facility financial services personnel
- Correctional facility records personnel
- Correctional facility safety officers
Centralized Correctional Operations Personnel
- Medical director
- Director of health services
- Reentry Services personnel
- Policy and legal services personnel
- Offender transportation personnel
- Centralized records personnel
- Centralized human resources personnel
- Investigators - Office of Special Investigations/Professional Accountability
- Minnesota Department of Corrections personnel assigned to Incident Management Team
- Minnesota Department of Corrections personnel assigned to Continuity of Operations team
- Minnesota Department of Corrections government and community relations personnel
- Minnesota Department of Corrections Hearings and Release Unit personnel
- Minnesota Department of Corrections Behavioral Health Unit personnel
- Minnesota Department of Corrections – Communications Unit
- Minnesota Department of Corrections – Office of Commissioner
Minnesota Correctional Supervision Services
- State Probation officers and supervisors
- State Probation agents and supervisors
- State Supervised release agents and supervisors
- State intensive supervised release agents and supervisors
- County Probation officers and supervisors
- County Probation agents and supervisors
- County Supervised release agents and supervisors
- County intensive supervised release agents and supervisors
Public Health Employees
- State and local public health employees directly supporting the response of COVID-19 and other infectious disease operations
- State and local public health officials responding to imminent public health threats
- Newborn health screeners
- State and local public health lab priority services
- County Emergency staff and managers supporting COVID-19
- Emergency Management essential personnel supporting COVID-19
Court Personnel
Current Tiger Club Families
District Employees
Tier 2 Essential Workers
Beyond the emergency workers listed in the Governor’s Executive Order, there are other critical workers that are absolutely necessary for districts to consider. Care for children of educators, gas and electric utility workers, food distribution personnel, water treatment staff, and others outlined below is essential to ensuring the public continues to receive these vital services.
Districts should make every effort to provide care for school-age children of workers in the areas below, if they are able to do so while adhering to the Minnesota Department of Health’s social distancing guidelines.
- Educators
- Child care workers
- MNDoT employees
- State and local essential IT personnel
- Substance disorder treatment workers
- Medical examiners
- National Guard (if activated)
- State workers essential to the continuation of Minnesota Unemployment Insurance
- Water Treatment/Wastewater
- Day-to-Day Operations for Gas and Electric Utilities
- Emergency Response for Gas and Electric Utilities
- Food Distribution Workers
- Food Distribution Centers
- In-Store Food Personnel
- Public Works
- Solid Waste Management (waste, recyclable/organics)
- Infectious and Hazardous Waste Management
- Other Shelter Staff and Outreach Workers
- Telecommunication Network Operations
Water Treatment/Wastewater
Day-to-Day Operations for Gas and Electric Utilities
- Electric utility lineworkers, substation technicians, meter technicians, dispatchers, power plant operators
- Operations managers and supervisors
- Fleet and maintenance technicians
- Transmission and distribution engineers and operators
- Construction coordinators and technicians
- Fuel technicians
- Relay coordinators
- Control room/center operators
- Cybersecurity related information technology personnel
- Gas safety personnel
- Gas utility operations personnel
- Water system operators, water treatment plant operators
- Wastewater system operators, wastewater treatment plant operators
- Managers with key responsibility for customer and community communications and response
Emergency Response for Gas and Electric Utilities
Food Distribution Workers
Food Distribution Centers
In-Store Food Personnel
Public Works
- City fleet (emergency equipment, fire trucks, police vehicles, etc.) maintenance workers
- Traffic signal system maintenance workers
- Emergency repair workers for bridges, water and sewer main breaks, and other emergent issues
- Administrative support personnel that ensure OSHA safety requirements and field support for operations
- Snowplow drivers
Solid Waste Management (waste, recyclable/organics)
- Collection, transfer trailer truck drivers and their fleet maintenance crews
- Transfer stations, landfills, resource recovery, recycling and organics facility operations staff
- Heavy equipment operators, facility operators (e.g. scale house operator, loader operator, line
- operators, boiler operator)
- Environmental systems (e.g. gas and leachate management, pollution control equipment)
Infectious and Hazardous Waste Management
Other Shelter Staff and Outreach Workers
Telecommunication Network Operations
