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Under Mamdani, New York will be the first to open a free child care center for city workers
6+ day, 3+ hour ago (1029+ words) This story was published by'The 19th'and reprinted with permission.' Tucked in New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's sprawling universal childcare plan is a little-talked-about milestone: In September, the city will open what appears to be the first free daycare for…...
Home child care providers are the foundation of New York City's child care system. New initiatives are trying to support them
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (720+ words) In the last half of 2025, Gertrudis Espinal watched as, one by one, children left the child care program she runs out of her home in the Bronx. The city had run out of voucher money that her families needed to…...
What the US can teach other countries about home-based child care
6+ mon, 3+ day ago (403+ words) Each day, nearly 70 percent of the world's children are cared for and educated by adults other than their parents in home-based settings, many of which are informal and run by women. (In the United States, it's about 30 percent.) In many…...
Early childhood educator apprenticeships offer an answer to child care shortages
5+ mon, 1+ week ago (573+ words) About six years ago, an apprentice training to be a machinist in Washington state told her supervisor she would probably have to drop out of the training program after having her baby: She couldn't find child care that accommodated her…...
One state made preschool free. Then dozens of child care centers closed in its largest city
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (634+ words) This audio is sponsored by SXSW EDU "We found this worrisome finding that the death rate, so to speak, of pre-K centers has accelerated since the governor moved toward universal access" to transitional kindergarten, Fuller said. "Private pay centers can't…...
Child care crisis deepens as funding slashed for poor families
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (1197+ words) Support nonprofit news. Monthly donations doubled for 12 months! The first hint of trouble for Mc Kinley Hess came in August." In Arkansas, teen parents have long been given priority to receive this aid. But now, Hess heard, they and many…...
Rural Americans support more government spending on child care
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (265+ words) What I do: I edit stories by Hechinger staff writers and contributors, in particular overseeing our work on early childhood education. My background: I started covering education in 2000 at The Washington Post, writing about a fast-growing school district in the…...
Rural Ohio relies on Head Start. Trump is worrying people in the region who need this free child care
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (941+ words) TROY, Ohio " For almost as long as she's been a mother, Sara Laughlin has known where she could turn for help in this western Ohio town 20 miles north of Dayton." "If we had to pay for child care, I would…...