Starting next month, child care providers participating in Arkansas’s School Readiness Assistance program will see significantly reduced reimbursements from the state, with higher-quality child care centers being hit the hardest. Providers with higher rankings received higher reimbursement rates, creating an incentive for providers to increase their quality of care. Reimbursement rates will be slightly higher in Washington and Benton Counties, where child care is more expensive. “Child care providers have always put the service of children first. So now that other teacher has eight toddlers by herself.”Scudder posted a brief analysis of the economic implications for child care providers on Facebook, where her post is drawing emotional reactions.