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Involving Children in Child Care Emergency Preparedness
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Breaking Down the Build Back Better Act
On Thursday, October 28, President Biden announced a new framework for the Build Back Better Act, which includes $400 billion for child care and early learning investments over the next 6 years. If the Build Back Better Act i...
Promoting STEAM in Early Childhood
On many hot summer days, my Uncle Preston would drive down from Alexandria, VA to White Oak, VA in my Aunt Margret’s silver T-Top to pick me up for one of our many adventures. Summertime was always a great time of the year only if I didn’t have to go ...
Examining CCR&Rs Role in Planning and Developing EHS-CC Partnerships
One of Child Care Resource and Referral agencies (CCR&Rs) most important roles is to collect and help make sense of important data on child care needs and trends in their communities. Families, child care providers and stakeholders want to know the pr...
CCAoA Statement on the Announcement of the Build Back Better Framework
Lynette M. Fraga, Ph.D., CEO of Child Care Aware® of America, released the following statement in response to the Build Back Better Framework: Today, President Joe Biden announced the framework for the Build Back Better Act, which includes $4...
Biden’s finishing what Obama started with early learning
The Hill Op-ed by Mario Cardona, CCAoA Chief of Policy and Practice President Biden’s child care and universal preschool proposals have received a lot of attention, much of it focused on whether the proposals will survive negotiations in the Senate aro...
Exacerbated by pandemic, child care crisis hampers economy
Associated Press “Early learning is no longer seen as just a women’s issue or a children’s issue. It’s really seen as an economic issue. It’s about workforce participation,” said Mario Cardona, policy chief for Child Care Aware of America. “...
‘Crisis level’: Child care providers grapple with a worker shortage as federal relief is slow to help
USA Today State administrators are trying to balance the need to act quickly while also making wise investments in using the COVID relief dollars, said Mario Cardona, chief of policy and practice of advocacy group Child Care Aware of America."A lot o...
Reflections on the 2022-2024 CCDF Public Input Process
The Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) program is a state and federal partnership used to provide assistance to low-income families to access child care, as well as build supply and improve program quality. Since 2016, states, territories and tribes...
Biden’s child, elder care proposals come with a hefty price tag. But can they transform the industry?
USA Today Mario Cardona, chief of policy and practice at Child Care Aware of America, also points to economic reverberations later in life. Mothers who are forced to work part-time or leave their jobs entirely to care for their children aren't able to put...
