News from the Field - January/February 2025

Check out the latest links to state and national news and reports for the early learning and care industry. 

NATIONAL NEWS & REPORTS

• The Hechinger Report
  • 3 global early ed trends to watch this year
• NAEYC
  • An Unsustainable Status Quo: We All Bear the Burdens of an Underfunded System
• Newsmax
  • Sen. Britt to Newsmax: 'Mama on a Mission' With Child Care Legislation
  • Watch Interview on YouTube
• NPR
  
  • How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich

CALIFORNIA NEWS & REPORTS

• California Budget and Policy Center
  • Issue Brief: Higher Wages for Early Care and Education Workers Builds a Stronger System
• CalMatters
  • Employers use onsite daycare to attract employees
• CalMatters
  • Inland Empire child care workers do vital job but rarely earn good wages
• Center for the Study of Child Care Employment
  
  • Report: 2024 Profiles of California Early Care and Education Programs: Enrollment and Staffing Trends
• KQED
  • From Sonoma to Los Angeles, Wildfires Hit Child Care Industry Hard
• KQED
  • 'Huge Lack of Communication': How a Building Code Update Disrupted Child Care Centers in California
• LAist
  • Some Head Start programs still can't access federal funds in wake of Trump order
• LAist
  
  • With thousands of slots still open, LAUSD opens up subsidized preschool to higher-income families
• LA Times
  • L.A. fires upend fragile child-care industry, sending providers, families scrambling