Sharing the Findings from Better Life Lab: Improving Child Care Assistance and Investment Part 4 of a 5-Part Series Rebecca Gale·Aug 23, 2022·10 min readOur country is in a child care crisis, exacerbated by the pandemic, which has shown how difficult it is for... Read More
State Roundup: The Summer of Child Care Innovations New Mexico, Illinois and Connecticut Provide Cross-Section of States Making Bold Moves Elliot Haspel·Jul 16, 2021·4 min readSupreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously said that states are the “laboratories of democracy.” It turns out they are the... Read More
States, Time to Step Up on Child CareElliot Haspel·Mar 1, 2022·8 min readElliot’s Provocations unpacks current events in the early learning world and explores how we can chart a path to a... Read More
The Lesser-known Effort to Help Fix Child Care and Pay Teachers MoreKendra Hurley·Feb 8, 2022·4 min readWithin a notoriously underpaid workforce, Louisiana’s child care teachers receive some of the lowest wages—making on average $9.77 an hour... Read More
Using Policy to Plant a Powerful Future for New Mexico’s ChildrenK.C. Compton·Apr 16, 2020·7 min readThroughout the U.S., the care network for our nation’s youngest children is less a tightly woven safety net and more... Read More
Voices and Visions for Transformative Change from Child Care NEXTMark Swartz·Aug 16, 2022·9 min readChild Care NEXT, a new initiative of the Alliance for Early Success, supports diverse coalitions in states “ready to mount... Read More
Warren and Haaland Introduce Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act What Will It Do? Tom Kertscher·Jul 8, 2019·3 min readA universal child care plan rolled out by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, one of the roughly two dozen... Read More
When Head Start Parents Become Head Start TeachersMark Swartz·Dec 21, 2021·4 min readErin Kirkley, 25, of San Antonio, Tex., discovered the Ella Austin Community Center last year when she brought her baby... Read More