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Why the Dire State of the Early Learning Workforce Is ‘Alarming and Not Surprising’

ED Surge

With the pandemic in the rearview and the accompanying funding it brought the field now a fading memory many early education providers find that they cannot keep up with rising costs, staff shortages and low morale.

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Federal Government Launches First-of-Its-Kind Center for Early Childhood Workforce

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has been following the situation — with eyes, especially, on the early care and education workforce, says Katie Hamm, deputy assistant secretary for early childhood development at the department’s Administration for Children and Families (ACF). government.

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Why Don’t Early Childhood Programs Have Access to Substitute Teachers?

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Nicole Lazarte, now the policy and advocacy communications specialist at NAEYC, was recently working as an infant teacher at an early childhood center in northern Virginia. It is a scramble, he says, and its a painful one. You come down to a point where you just need a warm body to make sure children are safe.

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What We Can Learn From Red States' Approaches to Child Care Challenges

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State match to local investments A partnership between local and state governments with revenue from sin taxes like those on gambling is expanding access to child care for those who need the most help. Multiple advocacy organizations are pushing to increase the eligibility threshold for the program (now 150% of the federal poverty line).

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How can we close the digital divide?

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The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Department of Education aims to highlight that disparity and many other inequities in the use and design of ed tech, as well as access to it. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Microchip Companies Create Child Care Programs to Win Federal Funds

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They’re not in the business of sustaining this beyond their grant from the federal government,” she said. Creating this rule is one way to give the government more oversight, she said. It’s a way to say: “Let the child care experts take this, and you be the experts on building semiconductors,” she said. “The

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How ‘Climate Anxiety’ Affects Students — and What We Can Do About It

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The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.