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Emma Willars: The care gap undermining women’s career progression
55+ min ago (514+ words) International Women's Day (8 March) provides an important moment for employers to reflect on progress in the workplace around gender equity. Beyond representation and policy, there is a more practical question HR leaders must confront:are workplace systems doing enough to…...
Community colleges help solve child care crisis and housing shortages
2+ hour, 50+ min ago (930+ words) Hi all, Emily Thomas with Awake58. I'm always amazed at the ingenuity of our state's community colleges, particularly their ability to pivot and meet specific needs of their local community." This week, we're highlighting some of those stories, starting with this…...
Mamdani wants to change the job of parent coordinators. He could start with a raise, they say.
3+ hour, 9+ min ago (763+ words) New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to change the role of parent coordinators in the city's schools " making each one "a meaningful organizer of parents, rather than an administrative coordinator reporting to a principal." Chalkbeat asked parent coordinators how…...
Dutchess County Awarded $20 Million to Pilot Child Care Program — MARIST CIRCLE
3+ hour, 15+ min ago (821+ words) As part of a $4.5 billion statewide initiative to expand access to universal child care, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the State would partner with Dutchess, Monroe and Broome counties to pilot the program. Under the plan, each county will receive…...
NYC Spends Millions on Preschools That Never Opened While Families Wait for Seats
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (213+ words) New York City poured millions into expanding preschool programs, but dozens of planned sites have never opened, leaving families on long waitlists and frustrated. Records show that more than 25 preschool locations remain unused, even though the city paid for construction,…...
South Tampa preschool closing leaves parents scrambling for childcare options
5+ hour, 35+ min ago (114+ words) Good Shepherd Day School announced they will be closing their doors at the end of this school year. Now parents are trying to find a place to send their kids to summer camp and school in the fall. Good Shepherd…...
How Dr. Becky Kennedy built a $34 million parenting business with Good Inside
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (333+ words) My colleague Claire Zillman has an exclusive in Fortune on how Kennedy has turned parenting advice into a thriving business. She reports that Good Inside passed $34 million in revenue last year, growing more than 50% from the year prior. It's raised…...
U.S. Daycare Businesses at a Crossroads: MYTSV.com Calls for Strategic Adaptation as Child Care Crisis Deepens
9+ hour, 12+ min ago (1316+ words) Why Daycare Is Failing Even at $25,000 a Year: MyTSV Report Warns of a Childcare Business Model in Crisis Federal supports ended; "child care cliff" arrives slowly but surely Years of low wages and limited benefits had already driven educators out…...
Preschool teachers speak out after Gerald Giam suggests longer hours: 'I only have 2 hours with my own children"
10+ hour, 27+ min ago (808+ words) Several preschool educators have spoken out after Workers' Party (WP) Member of Parliament (MP) Gerald Giam raised a parliamentary question suggesting that some preschools extend care hours until 7.30pm daily to meet the needs of working parents. Since the issue was…...
More Democrats embrace universal child care as economic priority
10+ hour, 59+ min ago (229+ words) We're in a childcare catastrophe. We haven't invested enough in this infrastructure," Hong said in an interview with the Guardian. Universal childcare meets the moment of the crisis we're in, with the speed and scale to spread across the state....