This national report and series of state fact sheets analyze variations in eligibility and access to Child Care and Development Block Grant subsidies in 2020.
In this report, we analyze the landscape for family-based alternative sentencing programs to assess the effectiveness of these programs in meeting their program goals.
This report addresses and assesses many policies—particularly presumptive eligibility—that may be useful to other states' efforts to improve their child care subsidy programs.
Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Representative Bobby Scott (D-VA) recently reintroduced a stronger, revised version of the Child Care for Working Families Act.
In response to the fragile nature of the child care sector after decades of insufficient federal funding, CLASP and other child care advocates across the field have called for a $4.38 billion increase in annual discretionary funding for CCDBG.
CLASP provides considerations for the recent notice of “Proposed Information Collection Activity; The Role of Licensing in Early Care and Education (New Collection).”
This brief outlines the history of inequitable disciplinary practices in child care and early education—and in the context of American society more generally.
On Thursday, December 29, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 (also known as the “omnibus bill[i]”). The appropriation for fiscal year (FY) 2023 included more than $8 billion in total annual discretionary funds for the Child Care and Development…
CLASP submits this comment urging the U.S. Department of Education to revise and strengthen the regulations of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program to ensure that all early childhood educators working in licensed, regulated, and registered settings—including for-profit and non-profit settings and family child…