Every time Emmy Thibodeaux drops off or picks up her two-year-old son at child care, there’s a situation being managed,...
Child Care Crisis
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on our already fragile child care system. Providers have closed, others are struggling, and everyone it seems is realizing that without child care, America can’t get back to work. (Yes, child care is infrastructure.) Early Learning Nation is covering the field with rigor and nuance from a historical perspective (Universal Child Care was a great success during WWII), to the latest legislative proposals and to ways that we must transform the way we treat our undervalued and largely unseen child care workforce.
The early child care education workforce was strained even before the pandemic. Poor pay and benefits not only hurt recruitment...
Deborah VanderGaast originally started running a child care business out of her home in Tipton, Iowa in 2005 serving children...
The child care landscape throughout the U.S. can put just about anyone in a grim frame of mind. The problems...
On Tomorrow’s Ballot, New Mexico Votes on Funding Universal Child Care
Q and A with a New Mexico Child Care Policy Expert
New Mexico made national headlines in the spring of 2022 when Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham waived child care subsidy copays...
A new report commissioned by the Early Educator Investment Collaborative—Mary Pauper: A Historical Exploration of Early Care and Education Compensation,...
A former editor of mine, while editing a policy-heavy story that needed more depth, lamented the demise of beat reporting....
What Does Accountable and Justice-Oriented Early Childhood Education Look Like?
Part 5 of a 5-Part Series
Many immigrant parents express fear around ECE centers. They worry that their child rearing practices, which may be historically rooted and culturally normative, may be viewed as abuse in the U.S. They also fear being tracked, monitored or reported.
The challenge mothers in particular face isn’t new — but it is complex and was only exacerbated by the pandemic. A new 19th News/SurveyMonkey poll sheds light on the issue.
Khulood Jamil never shut the doors of her home child care in California’s Bay Area in the early days of...