A new study on child-care rating systems appears to bolster concerns among some in the early-learning field that the ratings generated by those systems are only tenuously connected to learning ...

The Early Learning Advisory Committee voted Wednesday to advance a new set of standards for evaluating child care centers around the state, with an anticipated three-year rollout starting in 2024.

Hope Child Development Center in New Haven in 2017, where most of the children receive Care4Kids subsidies Credit: Jacqueline Rabe Thomas / CTMirror.org CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism ...

Statewide, licensed child care centers only have the capacity to serve 17% of children under the age of 13, according to research from a task force looking at child care issues. An ongoing effort by ...

Nearly all states—with a substantial financial boost in recent years from the U.S. Department of Education—have created or are working to build rating systems for their child-care programs. The theory ...

MADISON — After years of planning, Wisconsin began rating child care centers and posting the results online, drawing mixed reactions from child care providers. Supporters say the rating system, called ...

Affordable housing, homelessness-related issues and child care access are among the concerns cited by Lancaster city residents in a health assessment that will lead to recommendations for improvement ...

Yale researchers conducted the first-ever large-scale assessment of the risk of working in child care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their findings show child care programs that remained open ...

PARMA, Ohio -- The heroes of the pandemic are definitely the first responders and hospital workers who have spent the last year dealing with COVID-19. However, if you talk to those folks, they’ll tell ...

Marianne Fenech receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Gabrielle Meagher is a member of the Work + Family Policy Roundtable. Federal parliament is debating the Albanese government’s ...