In recent weeks, 20% of federal staff at the Office of Head Start and 25% at the Office of Child Care were laid off. Here’s ...

Community colleges focusing on re-enrolling adult learners should consider highlighting and/or improving their child care services as a key ...

Directors of day care facilities in Maine have struggled for years with a combination of high demand and challenges with ...

Bill sponsors originally proposed capping child care waitlists fees at $25, but that provision was eliminated.

Betsey Grant, who owns Tiny Tikes Daycare in Trenton, has been fighting the state of Maine to pay her for the services she ...

Infant and toddler care is the most expensive kind of child care and often the most difficult to find. The reality is that ...

OSU-Cascades received a total of about $3.4 million for the project, which Coffin said is all going toward construction costs ...

Advocates have rallied behind the fund, which aims to make child care services more affordable by attracting and retaining a broader workforce to the field. The task force is also asking for $247. ...

New rules from the state require certain child care programs to receive national accreditation this year or face funding cuts ...

The plan was enacted after a federal class-action lawsuit in 2012 revealed foster child abuse and overcrowded, understaffed ...

During the COVID pandemic, schools were closed and fewer cases of child abuse were reported. Now the numbers are climbing, ...