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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 through CCDBG.
Stephanie Schmit was quoted in this article about the reintroduced Child Care for Working Families Act.
On April 6, 2021, CLASP and ZERO TO THREE co-hosted a webinar on supporting young children and their families with the American Rescue Plan Act.
On March 3rd, 2021, Tiffany Ferrette and the NWLC presented on investing in child care as a public good.
Harsh institutional disciplince practices harm young children, and the roots of this issue for Black children are traced to systemic racism.
An overview of the historical and systemic roots of harsh discipline practices and policy recommendations for rooting out the problem and instituting positive change.
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 early educators but also keeps women in the workforce, increases racial equity, and strengthens our economy for everyone.
New York Times article referenced a CLASP report on CCDBG.
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.
New brief describes how the pandemic is only worsening long-standing racial inequities for infants, toddlers, and families of color.