CLASP

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.

An estimated 1 million+ children could benefit from the Murray-Kaine child care and early education proposal.

Alycia Hardy and Stephanie Schmit detail the child care & preschool provisions of the Build Back Better Act. Read the executive summary here.

Alycia Hardy and Stephanie Schmit detail the child care & preschool provisions of the Build Back Better Act. 

The most recent version of the Build Back Better Act, released by the House Committee on Rules on November

Stephanie Schmit and national partners detail the importance of mandatory child care investments in building a long-term system.

Alyssa Fortner, Alycia Hardy, and Stephanie Schmit detail the importance of significant and sustained direct spending for school-age child care. This fact sheet highlights a new CLASP analysis estimating that it would cost between $48.4 billion and $79.6 billion to reach all school-age children eligible…

CLASP helped lead the development of these child care and early learning recommendations to the Biden-Harris transition team. We were one of 187 organizations that endorsed these recommendations to ensure a strong, equitable child care and early learning system that not only benefits children, families, and…

This brief unpacks the impacts of systemic racism on children’s development and describes how the coronavirus pandemic has magnified pervasive inequities in health, education, employment, and other factors across race and ethnicity.