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By: First Five Years Fund A new Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and Morning Consult survey of households with children under the age of five where all caregivers are employed, finds that the child care crisis, which was made worse by the COVID-19 pandemic, continues to impact the lives of parents and families even as we begin our […]
By: AJC We’ve talked a lot about the disruption to K-12 public schools from the pandemic, but not nearly enough about the upending of preschool and pre-K, which could have even longer lasting ramifications for student success. Researchers such as neuroscientist Philip A. Fisher have shown how early stress on neurobiological systems undermines healthy brain development. A professor […]
By: New America Universal, comprehensive paid family and medical leave in the United States is closer to becoming a reality than ever before — if Congress can find the political will to make it so. And if the pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that Americans desperately need it. At the beginning of 2020, just 20 […]
By: CNHI News Claudia Wood knows that people don’t go into child care for the money. Wood worked in child care for 28 years managing a Kids R Kids facility in Roswell. Now, after retirement, she helps other providers navigate the everyday challenges of the industry. “In early childhood education, we go to four years […]
By: GEEARS for Saporta Report Last week, families with infants and toddlers from every state met with their members of Congress to encourage them to prioritize the needs of young children for the national Strolling Thunder, led by ZERO TO THREE. Kristen Johnson, a working mother of two young children from Duluth, represented the state […]
By: Georgia Health News In a well-kept west Atlanta yard Saturday, two women held up small pieces of a rock-like material they had spotted on the ground. It wasn’t rock, the two agreed: It was slag. Rosario Hernandez and Eri Saikawa know plenty about west Atlanta’s deposits of slag. The stuff is a byproduct of smelting, and […]
By: AJC Gov. Brian Kemp signed a measure Wednesday that for the first time grants a quarter-million state workers, including teachers, three weeks of paid parental leave. The new law provides the benefits to mothers and fathers following the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child. Employees who have worked for the state for […]
By: Mindy Binderman for Saporta Report Georgia is still just getting started when it comes to making progress for our infants and toddlers. That’s according to a ZERO TO THREE, whose latest State of Babies Yearbook: 2021 report shows while Georgia has made progress in supporting young children in our state, we still have a good deal […]
By: Georgia Recorder With Georgia’s unemployment rate inching back toward historic norms, more parents are calling on day care owner Shenette Zachary, and the playground outside Kennesaw’s Star Light Learning Academy is echoing again with the sounds of children at play. “Parents are definitely starting to go back to work and we’re filling up pretty good,” Zachary […]
By: The Hechinger Report Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Then she was told that her second job, as a transit driver for people […]