A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...
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.
More Bad News for Child Care: The Importance of Not Looking Away
Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 2
In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...
The Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act: The Boldest Plan On Offer Is Quietly Received (3-Part Series, Part 2)
Series: Which Path Forward?: Analyzing the Flurry of Federal Child Care Proposals
Sen. Elizabeth Warren was in many ways the match that lit the current child care moment. Before the world had...
As the fight for an effective and well-funded child care system continues, philanthropies are exploring innovative avenues to support advocacy...
As the debate rages over proposals to improve U.S. child care, several commentators— mostly self-described conservatives—have pointed to Quebec’s child...
Opinion: The Era of Child Care Incrementalism is Over
Child Care is Now a Top-Tier Bipartisan Issue
It can be difficult to realize you’ve reached a tipping point until you’re on the other side, like crossing a...
The “Child Care For Working Families Act”: Transition Fuel for Universal Child Care (3-Part Series, Part 1)
Series: Which Path Forward?: Analyzing the Flurry of Federal Child Care Proposals
When I declared on this site a few months back that “The Era of Child Care Incrementalism Is Over,” I had no idea how much April would prove the point. Not only is the White House gearing up to release the American Families Plan -- which will include, per the Washington Post, over $400 billion in early care & education funding -- but on Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray and Rep. Bobby Scott reintroduced a new iteration of the Child Care For Working Families Act (CCWFA).
This July, American parents started experiencing something brand new. After Democrats passed an expansion of the Child Tax Credit in...
Child Care NEXT, a new initiative of the Alliance for Early Success, supports diverse coalitions in states “ready to mount...
The early child care education workforce was strained even before the pandemic. Poor pay and benefits not only hurt recruitment...