With federal funding less secure, providers, policymakers & philanthropies can help kids gain access to high-quality, enriching options.

The Center for American Progress has developed a data dashboard that allows users to explore national- and state-level data trends on a range of child care and early learning topics, including access ...

It’s becoming markedly more expensive to run a child care business. And as public funding fails to keep up with inflation, those costs are getting passed on to families that in many cases can’t afford ...

Dwindling confidence in public education across the United States has pushed some parents to enroll their children in "micro-schools," an alternative learning center that gained steam following the ...

Head Start provides educational, health, nutritional, and social services to hundreds of thousands of young children and their families every year, playing a critical role in the U.S. early care and ...

Gov. Glenn Youngkin has proposed plans to increase state spending on early learning and child care programs in the next two fiscal years. Without increased allocations, families risk losing coverage ...

With 100 years of Spokane history, a statewide nonprofit that shifted away from adoptions to child and family services has a new name: Akin. Founded in 1896, it was Washington Children’s Home Finding ...

STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAW) - Parents of 4-year-olds will have more free 4K program options as the Department of Children and Families launches a new program putting child care providers in charge. In ...

“I once had a student who hated math, but he loved football, so we did daily problems around Auburn University football,” says Suzanne H. Collins, who teaches second grade at Rocky Ridge Elementary, a ...