Singing kids protest to save child care (video)

Posted by rheine on Jun 7, 2012 at 12:09 PM

Watch children gather on the steps of City Hall in New York City to sing songs in support of child care:

The kids joined Citizen’s Committee for Children, one of our member organization in New York, to tell policymakers…

Bill that would have weakened child care defeated in Wyoming

Posted by Lendsey on Mar 2, 2012 at 2:04 PM

We blogged yesterday about a bill in Wyoming that would weaken protections families have in finding child care providers. The bill would have doubled the number of children a provider could watch over without needing to seek a license from…

Weaker child care regulations could mean weaker child care in Wyoming

Posted by Terrylynn Tyrell on Mar 1, 2012 at 3:10 PM

The Wyoming legislature could be on the way to loosening a regulation that protects children in child care. The legislation would double the number of children a child care provider could care for before having to get a license from…

Building better early learning systems

Posted by Lendsey on Apr 19, 2010 at 9:12 PM

We know that 85% of a child’s core brain structure is developed by age four. Yet less than 4% of public investments in education and development are made by that time. One key place to improve the education system, then,…