early childhood education

Head Start is a federal childcare program that serves the country’s lowest-income families — those earning less than $33,000 a year for a family of four.

Advocates and unions are objecting to Newsom's proposed cuts to state spending on education, preschool, health and welfare programs.

Transitional kindergarten came with an unanticipated downside; it’s making childcare less affordable for many CA families. That can be fixed.

The governor tripled early childhood funding and expanded TK to all 4-year-olds. But preschools are closing, making infant care harder to find.

In California, almost 40% of the workforce is foreign-born and more than a million parents — immigrant and otherwise — rely on child care providers so they can go to work.

As funding deadlines approach, one Head Start program has closed and three others are about to. More closures are expected in the coming weeks.

Four decades after education reformer Marian Joseph pushed phonics in schools to change the way young readers learn, California lawmakers are embracing it.

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can see them: Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade. […]

Head Start staff and advocates launched a nationwide campaign to save the program, which Trump eliminated in his budget draft.

Child care's expense is linked to a lack of supply, which is linked to a lack of workers, which is linked to low pay and poor benefits in the industry, panelists said.