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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

NCHE

NCHE is currently accepting Notices of Intent to apply for funding, and anticipates granting all funds by May 2025, for projects that will end no later than May 2026. Today, NCHEs work focuses on three areas: professional learning, community building, and advocacy.

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Intergenerational Care Benefits Children and Seniors. Why Is It Still So Rare?

ED Surge

Research shows that intergenerational facilities such as Fairview Manor can lead to physical and cognitive health benefits for both children and seniors. Bezos Academy has since opened a second co-located preschool in Texas and has announced plans to open two more one in Arizona in 2025 and another in Dallas in 2026.

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States say, forget FAFSA. We got you

The Hechinger Report

To try to reverse enrollment declines, Washington in 2026 will start automatically guaranteeing effectively free tuition at all its public colleges and universities to students from low-income families that receive food benefits from the federal supplemental nutrition assistance program, or SNAP. Related: Going to college?

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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report.

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With little federal support for families, states are stepping up  

The Hechinger Report

Researchers at the Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at Vanderbilt University say that, over the past year, a small but growing number of states have adopted some — or all—of the five policies the Impact Center says are proven to increase infant, toddler, and family well-being. Those laws will go into effect between 2023 and 2026.

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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. In 2021, the country’s leaders committed $30 billion (about $24 billion in U.S. Children read outside at Heritage Park Child Care Centre.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). million dollar Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) (2020-2023 and 2023-2026). Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.