St. Paul voters decided they want to hold local elections in even years but balked at taxpayer-funded child care subsidies for low-income families. Both questions were decided by...
Families and child care and early learning providers throughout the Duluth area are sounding the alarm about the ongoing child care shortage in Minnesota, sharing that it is at a...
For years, advocates have been working on an incremental basis to improve child care and early education in Minnesota. We've had some important successes. Early Learning Scholarships have been...
According to ChildCare Aware, in 2022, Minnesota parents spent over $17,000 to send their infant to a daycare center. Daycare for infants took up 21 percent of median...
Family child care providers say the future of their profession is on the line. The Department of Human Services in April released updated licensing standards for both family child care...
Child-care providers who run small businesses out of their homes are outraged over the "administrative overload" and potential costs they say would result from the state's proposed...
DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - A Northern Minnesota non-profit has handed out more than $500,000 in grants so far this year. A goal of the Northland Foundation is...
Brittany Kjenaas and her husband live with their 3-year-old daughter in northern Minnesota, where they pay more for child care than they do for their mortgage. Kjenaas, a...
(ABC 6 News) Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed the education and children and families package into law on Saturday night. The legislation funds a summer program to help families purchase...
State funding is on the way to help families expand the options they have for child care providers. According to Gov. Tim Walz's office, $6 million funding from the...
ST. PAUL, Minn. Austin is getting a $250,000 state grant to expand child care options in the community. This $6.2 million round of Child Care Economic Development grants...
MOUNTAIN IRON, Minn. -- Jay Jensen's daughter spent 9 months on a wait list to get into Iron Range Tykes, one of few children's learning centers in this...
Early education providers and teachers from the Iron Range piled on a bus headed south on Monday morning, shuttering their child care centers for the day so they could lobby...
BYRON, Minn. (KTTC) Several child care centers across Minnesota are closed Monday for 'National Day Without Child Care,' impacting hundreds of families. Providers, educators and parents around the state are...
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Minnesota this month started its most generous assistance program for low-income families seeking child care. That's a wonderful step forward, and yet it's not nearly enough to...
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