In an effort to meet requirements of the 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act, which was reauthorized in 2014, states are undertaking massive policy changes in their CCDBG programs. This gives them the opportunity to raise questions about the interaction between the new CCDBG…
This brief highlights state-level data by race and ethnicity about differential access to Head Start preschool, Early Head Start (EHS), and Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)-funded child care, analyzed here for the first time.
Senator Casey (D-PA), Representative Crowley (D-NY), and Representative Frankel (D-FL) introduced the Child Care Access to Resources for Early Learning (C.A.R.E.) Act, bicameral legislation to provide high-quality child care to all low-income families (below 200 percent of poverty) with children under age four by 2025.
President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget proposal continued his call over many years for significant investments in child care and early education.
CLASP released a statement about the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights finding that Mississippi's state administration has blocked low-income families of color from accessing affordable child care.
On December 18, 2015, the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a new set of regulations to implement the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) reauthorization.
The U.S. House and Senate have released an omnibus funding bill for FY 2016 (the fiscal year that began on October 1). Thanks to the budget agreement made earlier in the fall, an increase in the overall discretionary budget authority allowed Congress to allocate funds for much-needed…