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Child care, preschool slots for CT children are dropping, report says
Proposed 5-year overhaul to CT child care system would cost $2B
Plan to overhaul child care in CT — Too ambitious, or not enough?
Connecticut Voices for Children released a new report, “The State of Early Childhood: Equity of Access for Immigrant and Refugee Families.”
Survey: Pandemic Magnifies Employee Childcare Needs
State Early Childhood Office Launches CTCARES For Family Child Care
Children's Learning Centers Receives Grant to Support Child-Care Services in Stamford
Cora's Kids Help Danbury Residents Head Back to Work
Child Care and Early Education Providers Are in Crisis. How Are Funders Responding?
NEW YORK, NY -- There is near-universal consensus that early-childhood education programs can break cycles of poverty and lead to lasting upward mobility. But funders say they have always been fragile, and have only become more so due to COVID-19. Early care and education do not receive much public investment compared to K-12 public education. The result is a patchworked system—if you can call it a system—kept afloat by various sources of revenue. Most early care and education providers teetered at the financial edge, with a month or two of reserves on hand even before the crisis. Weeks of closure have likely led to permanent closures for thousands of child care centers.