She eventually encountered Pamm Shaw, who created one of the first early educator apprenticeship programs in the country for the YMCA of the East Bay, in California’s Alameda County. Shaw encouraged Hernández de Cruz to take classes and work toward becoming an early childhood teacher.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and the head of the state’s Department of Children and Youth say they’ve engaged with the Trump administration to prove Ohio’s child care system is heavily safeguarded and worthy of federal funding.

Shasta Westaby has expanded her five-star, in-home child care into a large-group facility, opening Just Playing Child Care on Bracklin Street in Rice Lake on Monday. Westaby, who has a master’s degree in child care education, has offered family child ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Maria Snider, vice president of the Minnesota Child Care Association - an advocacy group - about the impact of the freeze on federal child care funds.

Area day care centers and in-home child care providers are trying to provide quality child care, but it’s not easy. Kids Depot in Hutchinson and Stay-n-Play in Litchfield have been mainstay child care centers in their communities for decades. Operating ...

Nearly 60 percent of local child-care sites were damaged or destroyed, affecting many student parents. One year later, Pacific Oaks College has helped more than 40 rebuild.

An Oklahoma state agency is accepting proposals to open a five-story child care facility at a building near the Capitol that would “offer priority for admission, at all times, to children of State of Oklahoma employees.

Communities across Indiana are struggling to solve one of the state's largest challenges: How to help families get access to high-quality day care and preschool.

On a block in South L.A., four child-care providers lean on one another as they navigate the challenges of the industry, including competition with transitional kindergarten and the high cost of care.