A universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen...
Throughout the U.S., the care network for our nation’s youngest children is less a tightly woven safety net and more...
There are more than 19,000 cities and towns and more than 13,000 school districts in the United States, and it’s...
After a decade of organizing, early childhood education advocates in New Mexico are convinced they are about to secure something...
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...
“What some may see as a gap,” says Jovanna Archuleta, “that’s not necessarily a gap. We can learn a lot...
Erin Kirkley, 25, of San Antonio, Tex., discovered the Ella Austin Community Center last year when she brought her baby...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
Innovations in Child Care Investment: Building the Case for Public and Private Funds
Part 1 of a 5-Part Series Explores Innovations in Child Care
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...
Child Care Innovation: Centralizing Administrative Roles
Part 3 of a 5-part Series
Our country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for...