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Election Day Proved That Voters Want Action on Child Care

On Nov. 5, a number of ballot measures supporting child care were approved. What can be learned from the ballot measures that passed and failed?

Bryce Covert·Dec 18, 2024·7 min read

On Nov. 5, voters didn’t just head to the polls to select their choice for president. Many also cast their...

How Child-Focused Ballot Measures Fared This Election

Voters largely approved funding for children, though holdouts remain.

Jackie Mader·Nov 6, 2024·2 min read

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Over the past few years, it’s...

2 Out Of 5 Child Care Teachers Make So Little They Need Public Assistance to Support Their Families

Wages for child care employees are lower than for animal caretakers and bellhops. In America, child care teachers earn a median wage of $13.07 an hour.

Jackie Mader·Nov 4, 2024·2 min read

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news outlet focused on education. Caring for children during their first...

These Federal Policies Support Spanish-Language Child Care

How some states are building a multilingual child care workforce

Scout Hudson, Hechinger Report·Oct 22, 2024·4 min read

A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census, yet 60 percent of Hispanic...

Q&A: Why the U.S. Is ‘Catastrophically Wrong’ to Separate Early Child Care from Education

In new book, child development expert Dan Wuori dismantles notion of early child care as a form of 'industrialized' babysitting.

Amanda Geduld·Oct 15, 2024·10 min read

In Dan Wuori’s upcoming book he argues that America’s early childhood policy has been premised on a harmful myth: “This...

As Pandemic Funding Ends, New Survey Shows Parents Facing Host of Child Care Challenges

Families struggling with rising child care prices, unexpected closures and scarcity of providers.

Amanda Geduld·Oct 10, 2024·5 min read

Parents across the nation are struggling to access affordable and reliable child care almost five years after the start of...

What’s Behind the Explosion of Apprenticeships in Early Childhood Education?

Emily Tate Sullivan·Sep 11, 2024·10 min read

This article originally appeared at EdSurge. Tiaja Gundy was just 19 years old when she started working at Federal Hill...

North Carolina Has Lost More Than 5% of Licensed Child Care Programs Since the Pandemic Began

Closures of licensed child care programs have been outpacing the opening of new programs since at least June 2023

Katie Dukes·Sep 4, 2024·6 min read

This article originally appeared at EdNC.org. Since February 2020, the number of licensed child care programs in North Carolina has...

Pumping the Brakes on Private Equity’s Run on Child Care

New Report by the National Women’s Law Center and Open Markets Institute

Rebecca Gale·Jul 1, 2024·5 min read

Rebecca Slaughter has a simple explanation for how private equity affects our economy: “When markets are competitively healthy, they have...

If Only Child Care Costs Were Transparent, Searches Would Be Simpler and Easier

Why Aren’t They?

Haley Swenson·Jun 27, 2024·10 min read

In the midst of my search for a new child care provider for my one-year-old, I’ve braced myself for the...

Private Equity Is Coming for Child Care. What Does That Mean? A Q+A with Elliot Haspel on How Private Equity and Shareholders Are Reshaping American Child Care

Rebecca Gale·May 14, 2024·12 min read

I’ve had the privilege of working with Elliot Haspel and reading his work on child care since I began reporting...

On the Other Side of the Child Care Cliff, Over 1,000 Providers Stage One-Day Strike for A Day Without Child Care

Bryce Covert·May 13, 2024·8 min read

Terri Simms has run her child care business, known as Playtime Nursery School, in Dayton, Ohio for over 27 years....

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