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March 21, 2024
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‘What American Families Experienced Is Not Something That You Get Over’
New York Times: "Philip Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood, told me that emotionally, parents haven’t returned to their prepandemic levels of well-being."
March 13, 2024
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Pushing Child Policy from the Crib to the Capital
Patricia A. Cole: "We use data from the RAPID Early Childhood Survey that comes out of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood."
February 06, 2024
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The End of Federal COVID Money Means Shortfalls for States and Schools
Governing: "According to a national survey by the RAPID Survey Project and NAEYC, more than a quarter of providers who ran out of stabilization funds had cut salaries..."
February 05, 2024
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Some States Are Taking Childcare Funding Into Their Own Hands—But Congress Must Act
Ms. Magazine uses data from the "Going Over the Child Care Cliff" survey brief from NAEYC and the RAPID Survey Project.
January 17, 2024
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Child care experts offer optimism amid growing challenges
K-12 Dive: "Without that funding, nearly 1 in 4 child care programs would likely close, according to a survey released last year by the RAPID [Survey] Project."
January 11, 2024
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State policymakers attend academy hosted by the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
This is the second time the Stanford Center on Early Childhood co-hosted the three-day event in collaboration with The Hunt Institute and the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation.
December 20, 2023
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Gift advances the work of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
Philanthropic support from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation will help the new Stanford Center on Early Childhood chart new paths toward a better future for young children.
December 07, 2023
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Child Care Programs See Closures, Resignations and Tuition Hikes After Federal Funding Expires
EdSurge: "In the weeks after the funding expired, 29 percent of families nationally reported that their child care tuition had increased," according to RAPID and NAEYC.
November 30, 2023
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New Federal Legislation Proposes Essential “Fix’ns” for Meals in Child Care Settings Bipartisanship May Make It Happen
Early Learning Nation: "...44% of child care providers are struggling to afford at least one basic need like food, housing or utilities, and one in three is going hungry.
November 28, 2023
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Child care teacher pay at top of challenges ahead of next session, legislators say
EdNC: The RAPID Survey Project and NAEYC asked providers and families about what’s happening in places where pandemic child care funding ended in September.
November 16, 2023
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Billions in federal child care relief just expired. Costs are already skyrocketing.
USA Today: "Families with children have experienced material hardship at levels last seen in 2020, according to surveys regularly conducted by researchers based at Stanford."
October 25, 2023
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New advisory board helps Ohio parents increase advocacy
Public News Service: "...around 39% of women with small children said they've quit or reduced their hours on the job since the pandemic."
October 23, 2023
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Judy Koch: Bringing Books to Children with Love and Joy
While Bring Me a Book will no longer operate as a nonprofit, its legacy and impact will live on through the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.
October 20, 2023
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By The Numbers: 900,000 fewer babies born in US than 5 years ago
K-12 Dive: The 2023 yearbook includes national data gathered from the Stanford University Center on Early Childhood’s Rapid Assessment of Pandemic Impact on Development Survey.
October 11, 2023
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Childcare providers are struggling to plan for the future as federal funding runs dry
Insider Business: "When there continues to be strain on the system, the people who are often hardest-hit are those who are already the most vulnerable," said Cristi Carman of RAPID
October 06, 2023
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Home-based childcare is a dying business. Here’s why.
Youth Today: A quarter of all daycare providers said they had a hard time affording housing, according to Stanford University’s Center on Early Childhood.
October 04, 2023
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Boosting the early childhood workforce to boost the economy
In K-12 Dive: 44% of early childhood providers reported experiencing at least one area of financial hardship," according to the RAPID Survey Project.
October 02, 2023
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How parents can help their children cultivate healthy friendships
From the Washington Post: SCEC Leadership Council member Jelena Obradović explains how to help kids build friendships.
September 29, 2023
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By The Numbers: Child care industry braces for potential funding cliff
From K-12 Dive: According the the RAPID Survey Project, "...nearly 1 in 4 child care programs would have folded without the federal emergency funding."
September 25, 2023