Who Cares About Day Care?

Posted in: Quality, Pennsylvania

Sue Houck's child care business in Wilkinsburg is a rarity -- a small, home-based facility that consistently receives the highest marks from a voluntary statewide rating system.


More Parents Opting For Pre-K Programs

Posted in: Preschool, Pennsylvania

There's a lot for Mandy Leas' students to learn before they get to kindergarten.


Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts a Resounding Success For 11,000 Children

Posted in: Preschool, Pennsylvania

A Department of Education study shows that the inaugural year of Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts is working.


With ‘Lights Out,’ The Job Begins

Posted in: Quality, Pennsylvania

Overnight child care workers at CYC entrusted with looking after sleeping youngsters while their parents work late shift.


Sen. Casey Pushes for More Federal Child Care Funding

Posted in: Quality, Pennsylvania
US senator Bob Casey (D-Pa.) was in Philadelphia on Monday morning to talk about early child care education, and the need for increased funding and accessability for all children.


Op Ed: Good Child Care Facilities and Programs are an Urgent Need

Posted in: Quality, Pennsylvania

We hear much talk these days about "investments in the future," about how convention centers, shopping malls and the like will pay dividends in jobs and tax revenue in the years to come.


State Leaves Child Cares Without Needed Funds

Posted in: Preschool, Pennsylvania
When they came up with the funding for it over the summer, state leaders couldn't wait to talk about offering free preschool to thousands of families who could use a little help -- but now many day cares that offer the program still haven't been paid.

State's child care providers form union

Posted in: Child Care Workforce, Pennsylvania

Devore Hart of Homewood wants a say when the state decides how to regulate family child care centers like hers, and how much it reimburses them for educating preschool youngsters of low-income families.


Pa. parents pay more for child care

Posted in: Pennsylvania, Parents and the Price of Child Care
Pennsylvania parents with babies in day care centers pay more on average than parents in 43 other states, a national report has determined.


24 Hour child care

Posted in: Pennsylvania

Working parents know it all too well.