It's not so much that the child care is cheaper through a co-operative model, but it's the governance structure, because the parents and the staff who work in the child care co-op are also involved. It's not a for-profit model, which does not involve the parents as much. That's the exciting part of it: the multi-stakeholder element, which involves the staff and the parents. The parents can go to work, and be assured that they have quality child care, because they're part of the governance of that child care.
On November 21st, 2006. See this statement in context.