"I would not have been able to work if the YMCA had not been available to provide afterschool care for my children," recalls Missouri state Rep. Brenda Shields. Before joining...
After 55 years, Children's Country Day School plans to close at the end of this summer. Last week, Children's Center Montessori ended a 53-year run. And 42-year-old...
A population boom is expected for Minnesota's third-largest city, but providers say there's too little money to keep expanding the local day care industry. Click here for...
The Minnesota House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee recently heard a bill that aims to reduce the cost of child care for Minnesotans. The bill, HF1383 , would establish...
Enrollment is rising again at Minnesota child care operations but the counts remain below pre-pandemic levels, according to a new statewide survey that also found providers facing challenges with...
In a survey conducted by the Minneapolis Fed and First Children's Finance in February and March, 86 percent of child care business owners and managers agreed there is a...
What costs more, a year at the University of Minnesota or one at a daycare? Unsurprising to many Twin Cities families, it's daycare--specifically center-based infant child care....
Child care for the youngest children is usually the most expensive. Expanding the dependent care credit would assist with those child care expenses. "We have decided to target...
In the lobbies and lounges of our state's second-tier country clubs, you'll find people who built generational wealth running assisted living facilities. But you won't find...
A Republican authored House bill would change certain regulations for the childcare industry, a move they argue would lower childcare costs in Minnesota. Hanska Rep. Paul Torkelson says the...
Laws of Minnesota 2023, chapter 70, article 13, section 25 directed the Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) to develop a child care and early education professional wage scale and...
A New Horizon childcare facility has opened in Crystal and has already welcomed dozens of students for napping, snacking and learning. A Feb. 3 ribbon cutting ceremony was held to...
Minnesota child care is in crisis -- and that's even before the threat of a federal freeze in funding. As a director of a child care center, I...
As someone who complained a few times in this space about the giant jump in state government spending by the 2023 Legislature, today I'd like to point out an...
Minnesota's child care centers have long struggled with staffing and funding shortages that worsened in the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years later, though, operators see reasons to be optimistic...
The Minnesota Senate Human Services Committee asked the commissioner of the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) some tough questions about a 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS story concerning oversight of...
On Tuesday night, 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS first reported there are 62 investigations into the Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) and those inquiries are being done by the Minnesota...
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) confirmed to 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS its Office of Inspector General has 62 active investigations into family child care and child care centers in...