Date: November 11, 2023
Since the conflict between Israel and Hamas accelerated on October 7, social media and news have been saturated with images of seemingly unspeakable violence…
The 19th asked parents how they’re approaching such a complex conversation with their children. How are they protecting their children from graphic imagery while still being honest about what is happening? How are they talking to their children about safety in an increasingly hostile world?
Date: October 19, 2023
If you take all the vast human potential and the vast inequities endemic to the K-12 education system and magnify them, you have the stuff of the early childhood education beat.
Date: September 10, 2023
A Bay Area official says 600 child care businesses closed down in Santa Clara County. Whether you are a parent or not, a situation being described as a childcare crisis will impact everyone, officials say…
Date: September 7, 2023
(The Center Square) – Fewer parents sent children to preschool in 2021 in a decline that corresponded with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The percentage of 3-to-6-year-olds enrolled in preschool in the United States dropped by 9.3 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, from 51.1% to 41.8%, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report…
Date: September 5, 2023
Return to the office mandates are shining a spotlight on the childcare crisis in the U.S.
Working parents can no longer “fake it” and juggle childcare, work and everything else in their daily life. While the prospect of returning to the workplace holds promise for increased collaboration and engagement, it also brings to the forefront the longstanding challenges surrounding childcare accessibility, affordability and the urgent need for companies to address these issues head-on…
Date: September 5, 2023
An estimated 70,000 child-care centers are expected to close, leaving parents with even fewer — and less affordable — options
Date: August 24, 2023
Farming is one of the only occupations in the country in which children are expected to be at the worksite, experts say, and farmers, who are self-employed, struggle to access any paid leave at all.
Date: August 17, 2023
Providers are boosting tuition as their costs rise and federal aid ends, straining some families’ finances
Date: August 4, 2023
In a research note about Friday’s jobs report, the chief economist at consulting firm RSM US did something surprising: Instead of talking about rate hikes or soft landings, he made the case for universal child care…
Date: August 4, 2023
A new labor-backed campaign plans to spend at least $50 million ahead of the 2024 election to put child and senior care legislation back on the priority list, after it fell out of President Joe Biden’s legislative agenda during his administration…
Date: August 3, 2023
When school is not in session, work schedules remain unchanged. And with parents spending upwards of 40% of their earnings on child care year round, it’s no surprise that many are simply leaving the workforce completely, not only fueling the child care crisis, but creating an economic one…
Date: July 27, 2023
In a hostile housing landscape, this article is part of a series about the housing challenges home-based child care providers face…
Date: June 30, 2023
Impending cuts to child-care programs in The City would help businesses survive an increasingly volatile retail environment, but child-care workers and leaders say the risk outweighs the reward…
Date: June 27, 2023
The existing ECE system is complicated, riddled with agonizing waitlists for families and high costs that drive parents out of the workforce. This was the genesis of Prop. C—widely referred to as “Baby C”…
Date: June 26, 2023
Due to changes in commercial rent taxes, SF’s city budget for early childcare is 13 percent less than last year. Protesters gathered after proposals were made to change commercial rent taxes through Proposition C…
Date: June 16, 2023
第七區市參事梅義加與託兒從業人員、兒童照護支持者在市政廳集會，反對削減資金。。。
Date: June 15, 2023
Programas de cuidado infantil se podrían ver afectados por los ajustes al presupuesto que propone la alcaldesa London Breed en San Francisco…
Date: June 15, 2023
Hundreds of teachers, families, and child care community advocates gathered to send a clear message to city leaders: Keep Proposition C the way it is!
Date: June 6, 2023
Hundreds of early child care and food resource providers, employees, volunteers and clients showed up at Tuesday’s meeting of the Board of Supervisors to oppose $50 million in cuts made to the budget for the city’s Department of Early Childhood…
Date: June 5, 2023
The Budget and Appropriations Committee is about to start work on Mayor London Breed’s proposed budget, and already we are starting to see some serious problems. Child care, housing for youth, code enforcement, the Food Bank … all are facing the axe as cops get more and big landlords get tax breaks…
Date: June 5, 2023
A local tax on San Francisco businesses, known as Baby Prop. C, is supporting the city’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children. We don’t want these crucial funds to be cut…
Date: June 2, 2023
Breed is proposing a cut of $48.7 million to early child care and education spending, in order to fund food access programs. Supporting food access programs is outside the parameters of Baby Prop C, and would thus require Supervisors to approve legislation changing the fund’s scope…
Date: June 2, 2023
Mayor London Breed is facing pushback on some of the trims she proposed in her record-high SF budget plan, including cuts to a nascent early child care department and a tenants’ rights program…
Date: May 31, 2023
Among the departments seeing the biggest losses by dollar amount in the proposed SF City Budget is the Department of Early Childhood…
Date: May 18, 2023
Once you account for inflation, public spending on preschool hasn’t increased in two decades, according to the latest annual report on the state of preschool education by the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University…
Date: May 8, 2023
Since the rollout of Baby Prop. C, the waitlist for families eligible for subsidized care has gotten shorter — but there are lingering concerns about meeting the needs of families with babies and toddlers…
Date: May 8, 2023
Without child care, there’s no workforce. Without federal action, Johnson, like many providers across the country, is facing down the end of the pandemic-era funding that has helped keep her afloat…
Date: April 21, 2023
Affordable child care in America is in decline. So, could this executive order lead to government grants for child care? Cheaper child care? Increased access to Head Start? …
Date: April 20, 2023
Hundreds of childcare providers across the Bay Area shuttered their doors when the pandemic hit, and many never found a way to reopen. The shortage amid skyrocketing costs has made it tough on parents, creating a ripple effect across the economy…
Date: April 19, 2023
President Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to improve access to care for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities and to enhance conditions for caregivers…
Date: March 5, 2023
Working parents need all of the help they can get. Some countries are better at providing it than others according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)…
Date: February 28, 2023
The proposed reforms aim to fix long-standing structural issues in the child care system, among them problems The San Diego Union-Tribune detailed in an in-depth series on the real costs of child care…
Date: January 8, 2023
California has several subsidized child care programs that help families pay for child care and fund many of the state’s tens of thousands of child care providers. But that aid reaches only a small fraction of families who need it…
Date: January 4, 2023
The fresh slate of lawmakers who began congressional terms this week will have the power to influence federal education policy, but it remains to be seen what, if anything, they’ll do…
Date: December 29, 2022
Nearly two years after the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic caused nationwide lockdowns and shuttered access to child care across the country, parents are sharing how much they spent on daycare in 2022…
Date: December 13, 2022
For parents of infants and toddlers, finding affordable, high-quality child care in San Francisco can be a nightmare. Just 15% of babies ages 0 to 2 have access to child care in San Francisco…
Date: Fall 2022
As coaches and facilitators of teachers’ learning, we take stories seriously and use them as a starting point for reflection. We interviewed nine educators who represented a cross-section of people from all backgrounds and programs. This NAEYC article highlights the major themes of their stories…
Date: November, 15, 2022
The education system has begun to think of itself as a pipeline, from pre-K through to the workforce. But there are those who think that it begins earlier—when a child is born…
Date: November 11, 2022
Voters in New Mexico just made history! New Mexico just became the first state in the country to make child care a constitutional right… it won’t just be a right in theory, and the benefits of that guarantee could be far wider-reaching than New Mexico alone…
Date: November 8, 2022
It’s important to recognize and understand the massive scale and impact of the existing child care market. We’re talking about a $136 billion industry, serving 59% of children under the age of 5…
Date: October 25, 2022
Unless your income is among the highest in San Francisco, or even among the lowest, finding and affording child care may be just wishful thinking. Nearly 60% of San Francisco children live in families that struggle to afford child care…
Date: October 25, 2022
Most people will acknowledge that child care work is extremely undervalued and shamefully underpaid. What’s often left out is the fact that this work is devalued because the history of the profession is rooted in enslaved Black women caring for white children…
Date: October 14, 2022
Schools may be held accountable for how well kids do at reading and math, but experts say that recess plays an essential but often overlooked role in children’s physical, emotional and intellectual development…
Date: Oct 11, 2022
All students, regardless of race or ethnicity, benefit from having a racially and culturally diverse teacher workforce, and the positive impacts are especially significant for students of color…
Date: October 5, 2022
Media hypes the so-called teacher shortage. But actually, state & district leaders are misidentifying a problem & developing misaligned solutions. They need to look at multiple data sources & invest in targeted solutions that will benefit students…
Date: October 5, 2022
The effort aims to improve the quality of early childhood education and to bolster the workforce, long plagued by low pay and staff shortages…
Date: September 2022
Children will bear the brunt of the climate burden despite having the least responsibility for causing it, leading many to position climate change as a child’s rights crisis…
Date: September 22, 2022
With high demand, high fees and high government subsidies, child care’s become a growth industry. For one man, it’s a veritable license to print money…
Date: September 21, 2022
Without public support, workers are quitting, and parents and providers are desperate. The United States funds child care at a rate that’s just 3.5% of the average of what other rich countries spend…
Date: November 19, 2021
Amid a pandemic that continues to disrupt children’s lives, President Joe Biden has been spearheading big investments in the early childhood education…
Date: May 19, 2021
If you walk through McLaren Park, Glenn Canyon, Crissy Field, Ocean Beach, the Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, or any other treasured San Francisco natural space, you might see her…
Date: May 6, 2021
Our culturally and linguistically diverse early childhood educators offer our children and families many gifts…
Date: April 15, 2021
What comes to mind when you think of a woman who cares for a group of young children in her own home? What images do you think of? What assumptions do you make?
Date: March 15, 2021
When Latino families knock on our doors for the first time and ask for help, I am often the one sent to greet them. After hearing my fluent Spanish, there are moments of relief and of surprise…
Date: February 21, 2021
Together we can dream about a better future for all children and Early Childhood Education teachers… in private and publicly funded schools throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and the country…
Date: January 27, 2021
A June 2018 San Francisco ballot initiative raising taxes on commercial rents to pay for young children’s care and education was legally approved by 51% of the city’s voters…
Date: January 24, 2021
What does it mean for us to be teaching and learning with young children in this historic building that you built in 1932? Working in this community over the years, I have been thinking more and more about what is in our blood and our identity…
Date: January 8, 2021
Through Early Childhood Education classes, I was exposed to concepts that offered me a window to my past experiences and cracked open the doors to a better future…
Date: December 24, 2020
When you read my name, or see an old-faded picture of me way after I am gone, and you discover that I was an educator during a world-wide pandemic you might ask yourself…
Date: January 14, 2021
The City will provide $25 million in grants and zero-interest loans to child care providers help minimize the financial impacts…
Date: December 7, 2020
In March when we entered our first shelter-in-place and San Francisco was transformed overnight from a vibrant metropolis…
Date: November 4, 2020
A San Francisco ballot measure that approves sweeping business tax changes passed Tuesday night, with results including…
Date: December 1, 2020
Board President Yee is introducing legislation to establish an emergency economic recovery program to support early care…
Date: July 22, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating economic and human impact on California child care centers, forcing…
Date: July 21, 2020
San Francisco Mayor London Breed and the Board of Supervisors have reached an agreement to bring a unified business…
Date: June 5, 2020
Mayor London N. Breed, Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee, and Supervisor Ahsha Safaí today announced…
Date: May 12, 2020
Supervisor Safai and Supervisor Yee will jointly introduce resolutions urging State and local investments in early care…
Date: September 12, 2019
Last year, the theory was put to the test in San Francisco when members of the city’s governing body, its Board of Supervisors…
Date: July 5, 2019
A San Francisco judge has rejected a legal challenge against tax measures passed by voters last year that will raise millions…
Date: July 5, 2019
A San Francisco judge ruled Friday that city officials did not break the law when they allowed two ballot measures that…
Date: July 3, 2019
Did San Francisco break the law when voters passed a series of tax measures last year to fund early childhood education…
Date: July 3, 2019
A San Francisco judge is expected to rule this week on the legality of two tax measures passed in the last year that together stand to generate more than $500 million annually for housing, homelessness and early education services…
Date: November 7, 2018
While many states are still finalizing the vote counts, it is clear that Americans elected 20 new governors and re-elected…