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9 childcare tips parents often learn the hard way, and how to make them easier

You’ll understand childcare tips the first time a labeled water bottle vanishes or a nap schedule derails after a long weekend, you realize child care is its own ecosystem. There are policies, ratios ...

Good‑quality child care? What parents should consider, and how it can be assessed

But what exactly is high-quality early learning and child care? As I have examined in my research with a number of colleagues ...
Education Week

Child Care From Age 2: New York City’s Plan to Improve Student Outcomes

The availability of child care staff is a potential barrier to expanding the program. The median income of child care workers in New York City is around $25,000, according to data from 2023. That’s 45 ...
Center for American Progress

A Path Forward on Child Care Regulation: Differentiating Between Harmful Deregulation and Helpful Reform

“The teachers are already bogged down as it is … My son is incredibly smart, but he needs one-on-one attention. And if there are forty kids in the class, is he ever going to get that? If he’s having ...

Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever?

By far the largest expense for child care providers is wages. The work is labor-intensive, with strict limits set by state governments on the number of children each worker can care for. Pay is the ...

A Biden-era rule sought to stabilize child care. Why Trump wants it gone

The Trump administration has proposed repealing a Biden-era rule that required states to change how they pay out child care subsidies, citing the potential for fraud.