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What’s the Latest with COVID-19 and Child Care?
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Case Study: Using Social Media to Make a Difference in Your Community
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Mario Cardona Selected for Pahara Fellowship for Education Leaders
Mario Cardona, Child Care Aware® of America’s Chief of Policy and Practice, has been selected for a Pahara Fellowship, a one-year program that identifies exceptional leaders in the educational excellence and equity movement, facilitates their dynamic g...
Federal Relief Funds: State Progress, Winter 2022
This blog provides an update on how states are using the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act funds as of January 2022. The ARP Act allocated $39 billion in dedicated child care relief funding to states, with funds reaching states in spring 2021. This funding...
CCAoA Expands Disaster Preparedness Project in Midwest States
Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) today announced the expansion of a disaster preparedness project for Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies in Midwest states. This project is one of the many ways that CCAoA builds capacity within the ...
Resolve to Be Ready in 2022
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Blog #3: Leadership: Building a Sustainable Virtual Coaching System
You can find the first two blogs here, and here. In this third blog of our Virtual Coaching series, the focus is on how leaders can build a virtual coaching system that is both responsive to early childhood educator’s and stakeholder needs, as well as ...
COVID Underscored the Need for Early Childhood Education. Are Fundraisers Seeing More Support?
Inside Philanthropy At the Arlington, Virginia-based Child Care Aware of America (CCAA), an umbrella organization of child care resource and referral agencies, Deputy Executive Officer Michelle McCready...reports a big uptick in interest and an expanded p...
Federal Aid Is Propping Up Child Care. It Isn’t a Long-Term Fix.
Stateline (Pew Charitable Trusts) Many of the recent proposals will likely be funded by American Rescue Plan Act funds—even if governors aren’t making that explicit, said Anne Hedgepeth, deputy chief of policy for Child Care Aware of America, a nonpro...
What’s Next for the Build Back Better Act?
While the path to passing the Build Back Better (BBB) Act has come with its fair share of challenges and setbacks, there is still momentum in Congress to pass the investments in affordable, high-quality child care and mixed-delivery preschool. ...
