Early Childhood Education
Monday, May 12, 2025
Program aims to connect rural TX college students with universities
By Lane Wendell Fischer for The Daily Yonder.Broadcast version by Freda Ross for Texas News Service Service for the Public News Service/Daily Yonder C…
Health coverage holds up Ohio’s child care
Ohio's child care system is under strain and a new national report highlighted how Medicaid helps support the workforce behind early childhood care…
Report: Medicaid cuts could impact 1 in 4 CO child care workers
CORRECTION: The name of the spokesperson from the Center for Law and Social Policy is Suzanne Wikle. She had been incorrectly identified as Suzanne …
National program makes sure TX students are technology ready
Across Texas, 63 schools are participating in a Parent Teacher Association digital literacy program known as "PTA Connected: Ready, Tech, Go!." The …
Report: Medicaid cuts could hurt VA early childhood education workforce
As Republicans in Washington, D.C. consider steep cuts to Medicaid, a new report showed the early childhood education workforce in Virginia heavily …
Report: AR child care workers could be hurt by cuts to Medicaid
CORRECTION: The name of the spokesperson from the Center for Law and Social Policy is Suzanne Wikle. She had been incorrectly identified as Suzanne …
Federal funding uncertainty puts preschool pressure on Michigan
Michigan's Great Start School Readiness Program enrolled more than 41,000 preschoolers in the 2023-24 school year, almost 3,000 more than the year …
ND set to offer new child care tax credit
Solving North Dakota's child-care crisis is taking another turn, with adoption of a new tax credit. The incentive is geared for employers who make …
MD preschool enrollment fails to keep pace with high spending
A new report finds Maryland spends more on each child in preschool than nearly every other state but still falls short of certain preschool quality st…
Report: AR pre-K suffers from funding gap
A report by the National Institute for Early Education Research shows Arkansas needs to improve its reach with pre-K students. The state fell from …
Lack of affordable child care costs Colorado $2.7 billion annually
The lack of quality child care for infants and toddlers costs Colorado nearly $3 billion each year in lost earnings, productivity and revenue but an …
Kentucky’s federal preschool funding faces uncertain future
The number of Kentucky children enrolled in preschool increased in 2024, along with state spending per child, according to new data from the National …