How to restore California’s ailing child care system: Pay the teachers
Covid-19 brought California’s already-ailing child care system to its knees. If you work in child care or are a parent, you are intimately familiar with this reality.
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California’s Subsidized Child Care Providers Are Overdue for Pay Raise
How Are Subsidized Child Care Providers Paid in California? Subsidized child care providers are paid in one of two ways in California: 1) by accepting vouchers from families or 2) by contracting directly with the state.
A public pre-K expansion doesn’t have to box out private care
xpanded exclusively in public school districts, pre-kindergarten has the potential to decimate the nation’s child care market, inadvertently depriving working families of access to infant and toddler care.
Some California school districts launch transitional kindergarten without state help
The state mandates transitional kindergarten, but isn’t paying the tab for a small portion of wealthy school districts. Some are balking. In a major shift for early education, California is expanding its transitional kindergarten program to eventually include all 4-year-olds.
Biden says nearly 1.2 million women haven't returned to work because there's no affordable childcare
For nearly a year, businesses have been complaining that they can't find workers as labor shortages abound, and the labor market gets tighter and tighter.
In defense of pre-K
What one study can — and can’t — tell us about education policy. In January, a team of researchers at Vanderbilt University released a study that seemed to be a serious setback to the push for nationwide, universal pre-K programs.
Moderna’s Covid-19 Vaccine Works Safely in Young Children, Company Says
Moderna Inc.’s Covid-19 vaccine safely induced robust immune responses in children ages 6 months to 5 years in a new study, the company said, though the shot had modest efficacy against the Omicron variant. Moderna said Wednesday the vaccine’s efficacy against symptomatic infections was 43.
Inflation threatens California’s economic recovery
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Will the pandemic leave a lasting mark on baby brains?
Donise Keller, a child care provider in Antioch, takes care of a little boy coping with some developmental delays. The 3½-year-old doesn’t talk very much, and he doesn’t enjoy interacting with other children.
In-depth: Childcare crisis in Coachella Valley
For many families in the Coachella Valley, having access to safe and affordable childcare has become rare within the last few years. Riverside County currently has a team called First Five.