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Family Child Care Providers See Gains Under Vermont’s New Child Care Law

Act 76, the state’s version of near-universal child care, is giving family child care an overdue boost.

Rebecca Gale·Feb 11, 2025·7 min read

Chelsea Chase’s house sits on a rural road in Vermont, four miles from interstate 91. A row of cubbies filled...

A Top Priority for Generation Z? Child Care

New Survey Shows Generation Z Values Child Care as a Leading Workplace Benefit

Rebecca Gale·Sep 19, 2023·5 min read

Kelly Choi crunched the numbers on child care, and the results didn’t look good. Like the majority (66 percent) of...

5 Questions for the Governor: Mississippi’s Tate Reeves

The Editors·Aug 31, 2020·4 min read

Mississippians are resilient. In the face of tremendous danger, they have come together. We have been able to put politics aside and fight this virus as one.

The Raising Child Care Fund: Centering the Most Impacted Voices

Elliot Haspel·Oct 13, 2021·10 min read

As the fight for an effective and well-funded child care system continues, philanthropies are exploring innovative avenues to support advocacy...

The Wheels on the Bus: Save the Children’s Mobile Education and Nutrition Units

Mark Swartz·Mar 17, 2022·6 min read

The ice cream truck, that American institution, is brilliant in its simplicity. Rather than waiting for kids to show up...

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Early Childhood Philanthropy Now

Mark Swartz·Aug 13, 2020·2 min read

Because we can’t take our Early Learning Nation Studio on the road during this time, stay tuned as ELN recaps...

Las Vegas Takes Its Show on the Road to Provide Quality Pre-K to Childcare Deserts

K.C. Compton·Dec 16, 2020·5 min read

Soon after the city of Las Vegas made a substantial investment in early learning with its Strong Start Academies Pre-K...

5 Top Takeaways from the Conversation: Strengthening Systems by Embedding Equity when Defining Quality

Mark Swartz·Aug 31, 2022·3 min read

On Tuesday, August 9, the Hunt Institute hosted the third and final conversation of the series on the early childhood...

The U.N.’s International Day of Play vs. “An Inhuman World”

Mark Swartz·Jun 11, 2024·5 min read

The United Nations has declared June 11 to be the first annual International Day of Play, calling it “a unifying...

Cailin O’Connor: How Communities Become Early Learning Communities

The Editors·Nov 22, 2019·7 min read

How do you know if you’re part of an early learning community? Cailin O’Connor, Senior Associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, introduces the Digital Progress Rating Tool, a new ELN offering [or new offering from ELN, CSSP and the National League of Cities] that helps stakeholders evaluate their efforts, chart progress, explore tips, and create a step-by-step action plan to create a thriving Early Learning Community.

Five Questions with Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton

The Editors·May 26, 2020·4 min read

There’s an African proverb that’s now universally popular, and it says, “It takes a village to raise a child.” Governor Pritzker and I realize that the child care industry is part of the essential foundation that helps our children develop intellectually and emotionally. The industry allows working parents to focus on being productive on their jobs.

All Our Kin: Fortifying Family Child Care—and Families—with 130 Organizations and Agencies in 23 States and Washington, D.C.

Mark Swartz·May 23, 2023·4 min read

All Our Kin is an innovative national nonprofit leading the effort to transform the U.S. child care system. Launched 24...

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