Vox On the Senate floor in early August, just two days before lawmakers voted to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, four senior Democrats came out to lament what they believed to be the bill’s biggest omission: child care. “We cannot simply vote o...
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Relationships That Matter: Utilizing National Organizations to Support Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies’ (CCR&Rs) Work on SFCCNs
In this final blog of CCAoA’s Staffed Family Child Care Network (SFCCN) series, several national organizations that focus their work on SFCCN are highlighted to support the work being done in CCR&R agencies. You can find the first and second blogs i...
Support Military-Connected Families During Blue Star Welcome Week
Every year, 600,000 military-connected families and children move around the country. The average military family moves three times as often as their civilian peers, and the majority of these “permanent change of station” (PCS) moves take plac...
Data-Driven Advocacy for Advancing Long-Term Funding for Child Care: A Texas Case Study
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Catalyzing Growth: Using Data to Change Child Care
ARLINGTON, VA, September 14, 2022 — Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) today released the first report of our research series: Catalyzing Growth: Using Data to Change Child Care. The report, Annual Child Care Landscape Analysis: 2021 Supply and Qua...
With Reconciliation Over, What’s Next for Federal Child Care Funding?
Reconciliation (the Inflation Reduction Act) (more…)...
Child Care Aware® of America CEO Lynette M. Fraga to Resign in Early 2023
ARLINGTON, VA, August 17, 2022 — Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) announced that Chief Executive Officer Dr. Lynette M. Fraga is leaving the organization early in 2023. (more…)...
Child Care Aware® of America CEO Resignation Announcement
Child Care Aware® of America (CCAoA) today announced that Chief Executive Officer Dr. Lynette M. Fraga is leaving the organization early in 2023. (more…)...
State Session Round Up, Summer 2022
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CCAoA Statement on the Inflation Reduction Act
CCAoA is frustrated and disappointed with the news that the Senate may soon consider a budget reconciliation package, the Inflation Reduction Act, that includes no funding for child care and early learning. There is still time left for Congress to right t...
