It’s hard enough to find child care in this country that is dependable and affordable when working a regular 9...
According to New America’s recent “Lost in the Labyrinth” report, “Families with the youngest children stand to gain the most...
Generation Hope: One Desperate Teen’s Story Grows into Hope for Hundreds
Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents
Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...
Early Learning Nation magazine asked some of our favorite people, What’s one thing our readers can do to make the...
The Full PUMP Act Is Now in Effect. Here’s What It Does for Lactating Parents.
The law extends protections to 9 million additional lactating parents and allows workers to sue their employer if they are not compliant.
The PUMP Act, a bill designed to extend workplace protections to an additional 9 million nursing parents, goes into full effect on Friday.
More than 700 Child Care Providers Shut Their Doors to Demand Better Pay
“Without Child Care, There’s No Workforce”
Lorretta Johnson has been running a child care out of her home in Austin, Texas since 1999, caring mostly for...
As we logged onto this webinar, we were greeted by the sights and sounds of Frank Waln’s “My Stone.” All...
If you’ve been following my work for the past year, you know I am deeply concerned about how unprepared our child- and family-serving systems are for this new reality. I’m not the only one. A new report puts a fine point on why early care & education stakeholders need to have a climate strategy, and why public officials need to have ECE in their climate strategy: a staggering number of child care programs are under threat.
5 Top Takeaways from the Webinar on Mixed Delivery Hosted by the Learning Policy Institute and the National Institute for Early Education Research
Multiple Paths to Quality
On April 19, the Learning Policy Institute (LPI) and the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) cohosted a webinar...
When Venicia Gray walked into her OB-GYN’s office in 2019, she asked a direct question: “What are my chances of...
