News From the Field Fall 2025

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

NATIONAL NEWS & REPORTS

• Bipartisan Policy Center
  • Modernizing Child Care for a Modern Workforce
• Chalkbeat Colorado
  • Banana phones and cozy corners: Colorado’s third year of universal preschool gets off the ground
• First Five Years Fund
  • STATE OF PLAY: Federal Shutdown and Child Care/Early Learning Programs
• Hechinger Report
  • Landmark free preschool program reaches too few kids
• The74
  • New Mexico Will Become the First State to Offer Universal Child Care
• Triple Pundit
  • Katrina destroyed New Orleans’ early childhood education. 20 years later, it’s a model for success.
• Urban Wire
  • Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Helps Kids and Caregivers

CALIFORNIA NEWS & REPORTS

• California Budget and Policy Center
  • Preschool-Age Enrollment Trends Across California’s Early Learning Programs
• EdSource
  • California expanding early childhood education apprenticeships
• KQED
  • New California Law Gives Early Educators a Seat on Teacher Standards Board
• LAist
  • Child-care providers struggle to start over in areas burned by LA fires  
• LAist
  • New Mexico will be the first state to offer universal child care. What could that mean for California?
• LA School Report
  • Orange County, California Pioneers Model to Help Cities Prioritize Kids Under 5
• LA Times
  • Public school is a right. Should child care be considered one too?