Guides
The checker answers your state's question. These guides answer the ones that follow it — the doors, the penalties, the real costs, the ratios, the rental question, and the honest truth about centers.
Three legal categories that sound alike and are not. Which door you are behind decides what the state can ask of you.
The penalties are published, and they are the smaller half of the risk. The larger half is what happens if a child is hurt.
The license fee is the smallest line. Here is the full first-year ledger, state fees included.
Ratio tables decide your real capacity, your real tuition, and half of all inspection citations. Here is how to read one.
Yes in many places — but three permissions, not one, decide it: the state, the landlord, and the local rulebook.
Centers are a different business: a lease, a director, staff ratios, and six figures of runway. This page tells the truth our checker doesn't compute — yet.