From the Boston Herald:

Bay State bureaucrats are turning day-care centers into stringent schools, where homespun “educators” will soon be required to write progress reports on gurgling infants, prepare toddlers for the rigors of kindergarten and even brush every child’s teeth.
“It’s difficult for me to pay attention to all the children if I have to do all this work,” said Irina Zhadanousky of Newton, who currently spends the day reading, singing and playing with the six tots she mothers during the day. “It’s extra work.”
The changes come in the form of new regulations passed by the state Board of Early Education and Care, which take effect in January. Among them:
• Child-care workers are now called “educators.”
• Written progress reports must be issued every three to six months that track the cognitive, social, emotional, language, motor and life skill developments of infants and preschoolers.
• Day-care providers must “assist” with toothbrushing after all meals, or for any children on site for four hours or more.
• Nannies must devise a “curriculum” that provides “evidence that programs provide specific, planned learning experiences” and that supports “school-readiness.”
Day-care workers and advocates say the requirements burden an already underpaid industry with reams of red tape and shift day care in the direction of an MCAS prep course. There are 275,000 children statewide attending day care.