News from the Field July/August 2024

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

NATIONAL NEWS & REPORTS

• First Five Years Fund

  • The First Five Things to Know About: The Kaine-Britt Bipartisan Child Care Plan

• Fox 10 Phoenix

  • Survey reveals how many parents have quit their jobs to raise children

• Early Learning Nation

  • Green Spaces: A Vital Key to Young Children’s Mental Well-Being

• Ed Surge

  • What’s Behind the Explosion of Apprenticeships in Early Childhood Education?

• Learning Policy Institute

  • How Can State Policymakers Foster Integrated Early Learning Environments?

• NPR: The Indicator from Planet Money

  • How insurance is affecting the cost of childcare

• US Department of Health and Human Services

  • Understanding Families’ Access to Nontraditional-hour Child Care and Early Education

• Vox

  • Fixing the child care crisis starts with understanding it

CALIFORNIA NEWS & REPORTS

• KQED

  • How This Classroom on Wheels Is Meeting Oakland's Unhoused Kids Where They Are

• LAist

  • What is child neglect? LA County is training educators to see beyond poverty

• Learning Policy Institute

  • Universal Prekindergarten Expansion in California: Progress and Opportunities

• Los Angeles Times

  • L.A. child-care industry in tailspin, hit with disruption as transition kindergarten grows

• Your Central Valley

  • Fresno State will be one of the first CSU schools to offer early childhood credential programs