ICYMI: August/September News from the Field

Check out the latest links to state and national news and reports for the early learning and care industry. Get the info you need to stay ahead of the game!

Staff’s Top Picks

• EveryChild CA
  • We Need Your Input: Cost of Care Survey 2023
    
• KQED

  • Newsom Signs Legislation Investing $2 Billion in Publicly Funded Child Care

• Forbes
  • Why Girls Who Code Founder Reshma Saujani Says Affordable Childcare Is More Important For American Innovation Than The Growth Of AI

NATIONAL NEWS & REPORTS

• Annie E. Casey Foundation
  • 2023 Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being
• Child Care Aware
  • State Session Round-up: Summer 2023
• CNBC
  • Some 70,000 child care providers may close as federal aid ends, report finds. What that means for parents
• Diversity Data Kids
  • Child Opportunity Index (interactive tool)
• Learning Policy Institute
  • The State of the Teacher Workforce (interactive map)
• National Research Center on Hispanic Children and Families
  • Child Care Subsidy Staff Share Perspectives on Policy Implementation Practices and Effective Outreach with Latino Families in California
• TIME
  • What to Know About the Expiration of Federal Emergency Childcare Funding

CALIFORNIA NEWS & REPORTS

• KQED
  • How San Francisco Is Graduating More Black Early Educators — and Why It Matters
• Long Beach Business Journal
  • California will soon face a major shortage of early childhood educators. This CSULB program just got $11M to help fill the gap.
• National P-3 Center
  • Great Start California: Advancing the California Department of Education's P-3 Vision
• NBC San Diego
  • Private child care in San Diego feeling the brunt of California's new free TK programs