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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. A garden cared for by children and their teachers sits in the playground at the Heritage Park Child Care Centre in British Columbia.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, the right-wing Heritage Foundation proposed turning the BIE into an education savings account, or ESA, which would grant families a portion of their childs per-pupil funding to spend on private school tuition, home-school supplies and other educational expenses. That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools.

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