Yesterday, New Mexico voters made history: they overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment that makes theirs the first state to guarantee...
State Roundup: The Summer of Child Care Innovations
New Mexico, Illinois and Connecticut Provide Cross-Section of States Making Bold Moves
Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said that states are the “laboratories of democracy.” It turns out they are the...
As a young child in Educare, when Jamal Poindexter used to play with his friend Alec, the thing they liked...
Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...
In this two-part series, Elliot Haspel explores how one Oregon region mobilized to generate an innovative, next-generation plan for universal...
The trauma of COVID-19 is widespread but not evenly distributed. Some communities are suffering more than others. The Commonwealth of Virginia has seen encouraging numbers lately, but of course it is not out of the woods. A recent Town Hall for Richmond-area parents featured...
When the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic hit this spring, Alabama’s First Class Pre-K turned on a dime to...
Chelsea Page knew when she was pregnant with her second child that, once the baby was born, she was going...
During her convention speech last week, Senator Elizabeth Warren, sitting in a now closed child care center, spoke about the...
Vermont Makes Child Care History with a Bipartisan Veto Override
Success Credited to a Decade of Advocacy, Lobbying Efforts, Coalition Building
On Tuesday, June 20, Vermont’s state legislature met in a special legislative session to consider a bipartisan veto override of...
Developed in the 1990s, Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) aim to increase the availability of high-quality early education programs,...
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