Home-based child care is too often misunderstood and undervalued. It’s not babysitting — it’s early childhood education. Home-based providers are trained professionals, licensed small business owners ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Loretta Johnson beamed as she started talking about her Kindergarten teacher. Mrs. Ann Brooks made such an impression that Johnson said it shaped her love for learning. Loretta Johnson ...

Across the state of New York, home-based childcare programs outnumber center-based by more than two to one. They are a vital ...

Opening a home-based child care program is on the path to becoming easier for providers. The House Committee on Municipal and ...

Deetra Stewart provided home-based child care for more than two decades before her homeowners association decided they had a problem with it. She recalled being “shocked and horrified” by what felt ...

A video alleging fraud in Somali-run child care centers in Minneapolis has drawn attention throughout the United States. In ...

Under the agreement, childcare providers in the union will get $90 million in one-time stabilization payments and $37 million a year for cost-of-living adjustments. They’ll also continue getting ...

Luisa wakes up before the sun rises in the Bronx. She’s checking the day’s schedule: an infant arriving at 6 a.m., a toddler who will stay until 7:30 p.m., a preschooler whose mother picks him up ...