Something bad is about to happen to childcare in the United States. At the end of this month, a $24B federal subsidy will vanish. With…
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A new assessment of Michigan’s childcare landscape shows that more than 54,000 children aged 0-5 are waiting for daycare. Washtenaw County is one of three…
The State of Michigan announced last month that it intends to spend $100M in the next two years to fund as many as 1,000 new…
A Massachusetts community college has partnered with its local YMCA to offer free drop-in childcare to its staff and students. Northern Essex Community College, which…
A new study by the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation found that childcare issues caused parents in Texas to leave the workforce, drop out of…
If you are looking for one word to describe the state of childcare in Michigan, I would nominate “dismal. While many sectors of the economy…
Mott Community College announced today that it received a four-year, federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Child Care Access Means Parents in School…
Yesterday, I wrote about the inconsistencies in decision-making at WCC. This strategy allows the WCC Administration to arbitrarily select WCC spending priorities. The WCC administration…
Earlier this year, the WCC Administration made the unfortunate decision to close The Children’s Center, the on-campus childcare center. WCC’s substitute plan is to pay…
Earlier this week, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced a $1.4B proposal to improve access to affordable childcare. The funding for the proposal will come from the…