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[ad_1] Get important education news and analysis delivered straight to your inbox Caring for children during their first few years is a complex and critical job:...
[ad_1] Imagine sending your 4-year-old to preschool knowing they will spend nearly all day happily traipsing through the woods, climbing trees and resting in hammocks. Imagine...
[ad_1] OSLO — It was a July afternoon in 2011 when a car bomb exploded just a few blocks from Robert Ullmann’s office. Because it was...
[ad_1] CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Bills aimed to reduce West Virginians’ income tax burden are headed to the desk of Gov. Jim Justice. One would reduce...
[ad_1] A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census, yet 60 percent of Hispanic families live in child care...
[ad_1] Decades of research have shown that children who are born into low-income households have less access to opportunities like high-quality child care and afterschool activities....
[ad_1] SALEM — The city’s schools recently announced several projects focused on improving energy efficiency, expanding access to pre-K education and ensuring students are arriving safely...
[ad_1] BOSTON — Backers of the state’s “millionaires tax” are accusing the Healey administration of defying the will of voters by tapping into proceeds from the...
[ad_1] BOSTON — Rising labor costs and a stagnant workforce are threatening Massachusetts’ status as a leader in innovation and economic growth, according to a new...
[ad_1] MISSOULA, Mont. — From the outside, the building that was once Cold Springs Elementary School in Missoula, Montana, looks abandoned. Beige paint peels from its...
[ad_1] By now, most of us who pay attention to politics have grown accustomed to tuning out the word-salad responses that former President Donald Trump frequently...
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (AP) — The high cost of caring for children and the elderly has forced women out of the workforce, devastated family finances and left...
[ad_1] Education vaulted to the forefront of conversations about the presidential race when Democratic nominee Kamala Harris announced Tim Walz as her running mate. Walz, the...
[ad_1] Hello! I’m excited to be back at Hechinger after spending the past academic year as a Spencer Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School. This past...
[ad_1] The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would reshape the American education system,...
[ad_1] Understanding the tax impact of more affordable care Here’s the problem: your child-care expense deduction will decrease if you pay less to your child-care provider....
[ad_1] Last week, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked me to moderate what he called “The Real Debate.” Kennedy was angry with CNN because it...
[ad_1] What happened: The D.C. Council maintained funding for the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, the nation’s first publicly funded program intended to raise the...
[ad_1] LEXINGTON, Neb. — Naidid Aguilera was feeling stuck. Stuck at her job at a Tyson meatpacking plant. Stuck in a central Nebraska town after emigrating...
[ad_1] During the pandemic shutdown, daycare owner Roxana Contreras sold her house when her income evaporated overnight. Maria Teresa Manrique nearly lost her business, and her...