Below are recent articles, stories and footage relating to COVID-19 and the early childhood education sector.
In the News
- Aug. 27: Alaska’s business advocates call for making child care a priority (ADN)
- Aug. 16: Opinion: This is a critical time for Alaska to invest in child care and housing (ADN)
- Aug. 8: Alaska’s child care sector is in crisis, but market conditions are great for small entrepreneurs (ADN)
- July 28: State moves to ease parts of child care licensing burden (ADN)
- July 25: More grants coming to stabilize Alaska’s fragile child care system (ADN)
- June 13: The US needs a major federal investment in child care (The Hill)
- June 9: Biden administration lays out its plan for Covid-19 vaccinations for children under (CNNPolitics)
- June 7: Alaska health commissioner announces COVID emergency order will end in July (NPR)
- April 26: The US Army expands benefits to soldiers who are parents (NPR)
- April 24: Caught in the middle: Alaska needs more child care to aid economic recovery, but facilities are pinched (Anchorage Daily News)
- April 19: Opinion: We work in child care in Alaska. Our workforce problem is your workforce problem. (Published by Anchorage Daily News)
- April: Alaska Economic Trends April 2022 (Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development)
- March 22: Senator Murkowski Testifies at US Senate HELP Hearing on Child Care
- March 18: Opinion: Alaska must address its child care crisis (Anchorage Daily News)
- March 10: Anchorage Assembly is exploring how to best use next round of COVID relief funds (Alaska News Source)
- March 7: thread Op-ed: Child Care is Key to Recovery and Economic Growth (Published by Anchorage Daily News and the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
- March 2: State Board Provisionally Approves UAA Early Childhood Education Program (State of Alaska Department of Education and Early Development)
- March 2: Millions of relief dollars are finally on the way for Alaska’s child care centers (KTOO)
- Feb. 22: For low-income parents, no day care often means no pay (The Washington Post)
- Feb. 2: Child care challenges keep workers sidelined (Juneau Empire)
- Feb. 1: Lack of child care keeping Alaska families out of the workforce (Alaska News Source)
- Feb. 1: Alaska Legislature considers comprehensive reading, pre-K bills (Alaska News Source)
- Jan. 29: Report – 61% of Alaskans live in child care deserts (Juneau Empire)
- Jan. 26: Anchorage superintendent tells Senate Finance that ‘universal pre-K’ spending will improve Alaska’s low reading scores (Must Read Alaska)
- Jan. 20: Parents and caregivers of young children say they’ve hit pandemic rock bottom (NPR)