Albina Head Start’s Northeast Portland anchor is part of what leaders hope will become a blossoming of Black-serving ...

Wilkes County has lost 56 child care programs, 67% of its child care capacity. This year, thanks to a scrappy community effort, local leaders saved the county from losing another. Sharon Phillips and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A Cleveland initiative funded by COVID-era stimulus dollars helped pay for 370 kids to attend child ... Staff at child care centers make $14 an hour on average, or $17 with ...

America’s lack of affordable child care has brought a long-simmering question to a boil: What exactly makes child care “good”? Everyone wants quality care for kids, and the need for child ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Hundreds of Ohio child ... t provide the care. We can't make sure that your children are taken care of," teacher JaMez Burton said. Burton teaches at Heavenly Kids Center ...

The agency placed 3,000 kids in foster care last year, he said. “That shows they’re going to make the right call based on what’s in front of them,” he said. “Any child that loses his or ...

While listening, the kids blow kisses ... has gone through a major expansion in home visits, child care and preschool. Vermont has made similar moves, and New York and Connecticut are heading ...

Alaga spends a lot of time taking her son from their home in Spring Hill, Kansas to his child care center ... Adding more kids per staff member, for infants in particular, would make it extremely ...

Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, D-West Des Moines, said she's spoken to child care workers who have benefitted from the program. "It made it possible for them to afford having their own kids in child ...

Eliminating the program would cut child care and supportive services for about ... “No final funding decisions have been made,” Cauley said. The plan, if approved, would represent a ...

The administration has laid off thousands of workers from coast to coast who had supervised education, child care ... we have to serve kids.” The story you just read was made possible by ...