EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Times
By Tom Howell Jr.
D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s administration is preparing to be the county’s role model for early-childhood education through programs for children as young as 6 months.

EXCERPT FROM: Business Wire
By Business Wire
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A newly-released study calls for the District of Columbia to increase requirements for physical activity in child care centers as a tool for combating childhood obesity, but also finds that many child care centers face significant barriers to providing more physical activity for students. The study was conducted by Altarum Institute, a nonprofit health care research and consulting organization, as part of its multimillion dollar Childhood Obesity Prevention Mission Project.

EXCERPT FROM: WCTV
By STAFF
ACF Press Release - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (ACF) announced a reorganization that establishes an Office of Child Care (OCC) that will administer the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). The CCDF provides child care subsidies for 1.6 million children in low-income families each month and works to improve the quality of child care in states, territories, and tribes across the country.

EXCERPT FROM: Washington Post
By Lisa Rein
Small Savers, the day-care center steps from the White House that was threatened with closure under a provision of the new financial reform law, has won a reprieve.

EXCERPT FROM: Politico
By Erika Lovley
Congressional staffers compare getting child care on Capitol Hill to landing season tickets to the Redskins: nice idea, never going to happen.

EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Informer
By Norma Porter Anthony
As District Mayor Adrian M. Fenty prepares to release his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2011, on April 1, a group of frustrated District residents wanted to make sure that he heard them loud-and-clear.

EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Post
By Donna St. George
There was the stress of the recession, then the record-setting snow. Finally, as February gave way to March, here's how the fallout looked at a Bladensburg child-care center:

EXCERPT FROM: Washington Post
By Petula Dvorak
I really thought it wouldn't get much worse than the unpaid college internship.

EXCERPT FROM: The Washington Informer
By Norma Porter
Fahim Shabazz, a father of two small children, works as an events service supervisor at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Northwest at night. After his eight-hour shift, he hurries home to take care of his four-year-old daughter Aaliyah. Before the bell rings at 3 p.m., he’s at Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School in Southeast to pick up his five-year-old daughter Saniyah. It’s become a part of his daily routine.

EXCERPT FROM: NewsChannel 8
WASHINGTON - The Wilson Building knows protests; its steps are stamped with a cause nearly every day.