Update: The Children & Youth Partnership has announced it is teaming up with the College of Albermarle-Dare Campus to offer its own Child Care Academy teaching credential course.

It costs around $16,000 a year for child care in Connecticut per child, which is a big chunk of a budget for working families, not to mention if you have two or three or four in daycare. Senator ...

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HENRICO COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Henrico County Public Schools is partnering with three child-care programs to provide in-school care for the children of essential workers and working families. The YMCA ...

Access to affordable child care is a growing concern as Texas’ booming economy gains 1,500 new people daily, yet families continue to struggle with over $10,000 a year in costs. That’s about 13% of ...

New data show that child care expenses amount to 35 percent of low-income families’ earnings. 3- and 4-year-olds play a color game at an early education and care agency in Massachusetts, April 2017.

When state officials froze enrollment in the child care scholarships program in May, to deal with the overwhelming number of families applying for spaces, they said they hoped to have applications ...

With all the colds and “crud” that have been going around, I wanted to share an article written by Extension colleague Susan Sloop regarding guidelines for keeping children home from child care and ...

Editor's note: A defense official told Military.com on Aug.14, 2025, that the 2024-2025 rates were still in effect at that time. Military child-care fees vary according to family income and the local ...

Education and quality time are prime issues during the Week of the Young Child. Getting people to think about the issues affecting the education of young children is part of the Week of the Young ...