Free school meals were a godsend for Lynnea Hawkins long before the pandemic. Her son was living with his father...
For many parents, the formula shortage isn’t over; it has become a gnawing ongoing element of their lives. And for...
Child Care NEXT, a new initiative of the Alliance for Early Success, supports diverse coalitions in states “ready to mount...
A little-noticed meteorite is about to smash into family child care providers. If Congress does not act by June 30th...
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
When Andrea (a pseudonym) was receiving the expanded Child Tax Credit last year, she would ask her three children what...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
When Jack Shonkoff speaks, the early childhood field listens. Shonkoff, a pediatrician who leads Harvard’s Center on the Developing Child,...
States are taking early childhood education seriously. A recent report from the Alliance for Early Success documents the progress. (See...
“What some may see as a gap,” says Jovanna Archuleta, “that’s not necessarily a gap. We can learn a lot...
In 2016, when Philadelphia became the first big U.S. city to tax sugary beverages, many expected other others to follow....
