Elliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a...
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...
A universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen...
On Tomorrow’s Ballot, New Mexico Votes on Funding Universal Child Care
Q and A with a New Mexico Child Care Policy Expert
New Mexico made national headlines in the spring of 2022 when Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham waived child care subsidy copays...
Erin Kirkley, 25, of San Antonio, Tex., discovered the Ella Austin Community Center last year when she brought her baby...
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...
New Mexico, a state long used to landing at the bottom of national rankings for children’s well-being, just made a...
Within a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour...
“What some may see as a gap,” says Jovanna Archuleta, “that’s not necessarily a gap. We can learn a lot...
Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment
Part 4 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...
5 Top Takeaways: Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success Explore Big Wins for Little Kids 2022
2022 produced an impressive number of big wins, which the Hunt Institute and Alliance for Early Success explored December 5 in this year’s edition of the Big Wins for Little Kids webinar.