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OPINION: We can longer afford to neglect child care providers and our littlest learners
The Hechinger Report Op-ed by CCAoA CEO Lynette M. Fraga, Ph.D. and Dr. Renée Boynton-Jarrett, a pediatrician and social epidemiologist, an associate professor at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, and Vice President of CCAoA...
Help Your Community Proclaim May 6 as Provider Appreciation Day
Provider Appreciation Day® is an annual celebration of the important work that child care providers do every day in communities across the country, and in 2022 it falls on Friday, May 6. Last year’s celebrations of Provider Appreciation Day® included ...
How Hawaii Celebrated its First Statewide Provider Appreciation Day
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CCAoA Contributes to Civil Rights Principles for Early Care and Education
Child Care Aware of America joined the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, along with 45 civil rights and education organizations, to release Civil Rights Principles for Early Care and Education on March 9. The principles outline how dec...
Reflecting on the Impact of the American Rescue Plan Act, One Year Later
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Demanding Change
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Child care workers are going hungry: ‘We have a dollar store in town and sadly fill up on cheap junk to survive’
USA Today The growth in child-care prices exceeded the annual rate of inflation in 2020 and 2019, according to a report by Child Care Aware of America, a national nonprofit network of more than 400 agencies to help people access child care. Inflation...
A historic child care investment saved centers from collapse. What happens when the money runs out?
The 19th The funding also came with a big promise to stabilize an industry that was in total collapse. About 1 in 3 child care workers lost their jobs at the onset of the pandemic, and more than 16,000 centers in 37 states had closed permanently by March ...
State of the Union Recap: Biden’s Plan to Make Child Care Affordable for Families
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