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OPINION: A hopeful note for early childhood education in 2024 — Some states are stepping up investment

January 15, 2024

“Millions of families may now face a lack of child care following the recent expiration of pandemic-era federal funding. The child care “stabilization” funds included in the American Rescue Plan Act were just that — emergency funding to stabilize the sector amid a pandemic…” Continued

Op-Ed: America’s approach to early childhood education is completely unsustainable

February 12, 2022

“Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, alarming attrition and turnover in the early education workforce has gotten even worse. Prior to the pandemic, turnover in the field was already as high as…” Continued

Our future depends upon caring for the early educators

June 25, 2020

“Our nation’s economic recovery depends on strengthening an essential workforce tragically overlooked and under-appreciated for decades: the early learning and childcare educators who enable parents to work and raise healthy, successful children…” Continued

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