EXCERPT FROM: BirthtoThrive Online
By Paul Nyhan
With time running out in the Washington State legislative session, a cut in child care subsidies for poor families remains a $30-million part of a House plan to balance the budget, though the Senate appears to support more funding.

EXCERPT FROM: The News Tribune
By Kristi Pihl
PASCO — A little girl bends over a coloring book, her crayon spreading red across the page.

EXCERPT FROM: Birth to Thrive Online
By Paul Nyhan
In one of the toughest budget seasons in recent years, Washington State Gov. Christine Gregoire offered some good early learning news, restoring funding for 1,500 public preschool slots and child care subsidies for working poor families in her new budget.

EXCERPT FROM: The Seattle Times
By Donna Gordon Blankinship
SEATTLE — Despite the economic downturn, Washington state's education leaders say the time is right for improving the way children are prepared for kindergarten and beyond.

BREMERTON — Sixty-five tots will escape the waiting list when a new child-care facility opens at Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton.

It's never been easy being a Navy wife.

BELLINGHAM - Gun sales would be banned near the city's 50 state-licensed day care centers, 19 public schools and four colleges, under a draft law. It would also ban sales near at least 13 private and religious schools.

Positions for five employees who would have been charged with improving enforcement of child care regulations have been axed due to state budget woes.

When Doug Schmidt heads off to his restaurant job, the single dad doesn’t turn to a daycare center to watch his three year old daughter, he turns to his father.

Susan Dreyfus, an executive vice president for the Rogers Behavioral Health System in Oconomowoc, has been named secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services for the state of Washington.