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Virginia Needs an Overhaul of State Child Care Laws
A front page Washington Post story on Sunday, March 10, “After a baby’s death, a Virginia mother fights for stronger child care standards,” shared the tragic story of 3-month-old Camden Lafkin’s death...
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Virginia County Looks to Weaken Child Care!
Last week a front page story in the Washington Post shared the tragic death of 3-month-old Camden Lafkin in a Virginia child care program. The child care provider and Camden’s cause of death are under...
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A Child Care License Should Mean Children are Safe
This week, the New Republic ran an article, “The Hell of American Day Care: An Investigation into the barely regulated, unsafe business of looking after our children.” The article reviewed the...
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New HHS Rules Promoting Children’s Health & Safety in Child Care
This past week, the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, held a press conference at an early learning center in Washington, D.C. to announce new rules to...
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Learning from the Military Child Care System
It’s Memorial Day Weekend and a time to celebrate and remember those who died in service to our country – over a million men and women who have died since the Civil War protecting our people and...
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It’s Time to Fix Child Care – Reauthorization Bill Introduced in Senate
Last week, Senator Mikulski (D-MD), Senator Burr (R-NC), Senator Harkin (D-IA), and Senator Alexander (R-TN) introduced a bill to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary...
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The Child Care and Development Block Grant Moves Onward
Today the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, passed the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2013 out of Committee. A lot has changed in the past two decades and...
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Senate Takes Up CCDBG Reauthorization: Day 1 Recap
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) kicked off the floor action on the bill earlier this morning and stated, “In the two decades since this important program was last authorized, we’ve learned a...
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Senate Overwhelmingly Passes CCDBG Reauthorization Bill: Day 2 Recap
In an effort to significantly improve the quality of child care across the nation and to prove that it is possible for the Senate to work in regular order, in a bipartisan manner. By a vote of 96-2,...
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CCDBG Moving Forward – Helpful Resources on the New Law
With the signing of S.1086, the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2014 into law, now the focus will shift to ensuring that those across the country which these changes will directly impact,...
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