News from the Field - April/May 2025

Check out the latest links to state and national news and reports for the early learning and care industry. 

NATIONAL NEWS & REPORTS

• Buffett Early Childhood Institute
  • Four Evidence-Based Reasons Why Increasing Child Care Ratios Would be Dangerous and Counterproductive
• First Five Years Fund
  • Child Care Funding Letters Draw Record Number of Inaugural Signers
• The Guardian
  • New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
• National Institute for Early Education Research
  • California Leads Nation in Pre-K Growth in 2024
• New America
  • Local Early Childhood Initiatives Need Head Start

CALIFORNIA NEWS & REPORTS

• California Budget and Policy Center
  • Two California Families, Two Futures: The Real Cost of Federal Budget Cuts
• CalMatters
  • Head Start gets a reprieve from Trump budget cuts, but the fight isn’t over
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
  
  • Building the Plane While Flying It: California Transitional Kindergarten Teachers’ Experiences of TK Expansion
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
  
  • Immigration Policies Harm the Early Childhood Workforce and the Communities They Serve
• Fox5 San Diego
  • Child care among costliest expenses for California families, report shows
• Paso Robles Daily News
  
  • City of Paso Robles explores childcare expansion with new study