Tag: early child care
Promising Signs Ahead for Early Learning Workforce
May 18th, 2021
Over the past year, the early childhood industry and workforce has plunged into crisis from the COVID-19 pandemic. As we wrote in March, the child care industry faced crisis conditions even before COVID-19 due to the poor compensation of early learning professionals and the negative impact it has on both educator wellbeing and the quality...VIEW ARTICLE
We Shouldn’t Depend on Market Rate Studies to Fund Early Learning
March 15th, 2021
The child care industry across the nation is in dire peril. In Delaware, the situation is just as grim. Advocates are rallying around the state’s budgetary process in hopes of increasing state investments to save struggling providers. Even before COVID-19—which caused havoc by raising costs while lowering enrollment—early child care...VIEW ARTICLE