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Madeleine Kunin: Finally, a big step forward on financing child care

By Madeleine May Kunin

Apr 18 2021April 19, 2021

Lincoln Irwin, 4, of Essex Junction

What were once “women’s issues” are now essential economic issues that have gained wide support. Access to child care can make the difference for a family, whether it slips into poverty, or holds on to the middle class.


Dr. Joseph Hagan: With H.171 on child care in Vermont, the Legislature got it right

By Commentary

Mar 21 2021March 21, 2021

For millennial families, two working-parent families predominate, often of financial necessity rather than by choice. They depend on child care for their families to flourish.


Child care bill clears House committee, sets ambitious 2025 goal

By Lola Duffort

Mar 9 2021March 9, 2021

A tri-partisan consensus around the importance of child care had been emerging before the pandemic, but the coronavirus crisis put the issue in the spotlight.


Catherine Hamilton: Child care has profound impacts on health and well-being

By Commentary

Mar 9 2021March 8, 2021

Seventy-one percent of Vermont’s kids have all parents in the workforce, yet three out of five of those young Vermonters don’t have access to a regulated child care program.


Virus in Vermont: Toddler parents worry after a year of social deprivation

By Mike Dougherty

Mar 8 2021March 9, 2021

Parents with toddler

A generation of young children are learning how to socialize and ‘social distance’ at the same time.


Advocates set an ambitious goal for child care access. Will Vermont find the money?

By Lola Duffort

Feb 11 2021February 11, 2021

“I don’t want to be the skunk at the garden party here,” DCF Commissioner Sean Brown said Wednesday, but based on a “high level” look at the bill, administration officials believe the eventual cost could be in the ballpark of $300 million to $500 million a year.


Murphy, Keiser: For children, let’s build on what we’ve achieved and learned

By Commentary

Feb 2 2021February 1, 2021

This commentary is by Reeva Sullivan Murphy of Stowe and Kim Keiser of Fayston. Each is a former deputy commissioner of child development for the Vermont Department for Children and Families, and Keiser is also former director of the child care services division in the Vermont Department of Social & Rehabilitation Services.  Governor Scott’s vision […]


Despite multiple challenges, Vermont didn’t lose many child care slots in 2020

By Ellie French

Jan 24 2021February 9, 2021

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the state has invested $40.5 million in child care business stabilization funds, restart stipends, hazard pay and relief grants.


Gov. Scott wants to streamline child care oversight. It won’t be simple.

By Lola Duffort

Jan 22 2021January 22, 2021

State officials say too much time is wasted on coordination between agencies instead of providing direct services to kids and families.


Chloe Learey: Working together to make child care work

By Commentary

Dec 27 2020December 23, 2020

Child care does not just benefit families; it benefits everyone in a community, and so we need to figure out how to increase public investment in this public good.


Kids with runny noses sent home during Covid, creating havoc with jobs, child care

By Lola Duffort

Oct 12 2020October 12, 2020

At Growing With Wonder, a clear runny nose that needs to be wiped only five times or fewer in half an hour can stay. The rest go.


Chloe Learey: Early childhood education and child care are not synonymous

By Commentary

Sep 17 2020September 17, 2020

What we have come to learn is that care is education in these early years, whether we are intentional about it or not.


Child care system adds hubs quickly, but many families still face big problem

By Lola Duffort

Sep 15 2020September 15, 2020

The state’s patchwork child care solution still leaves plenty of families in the lurch, many of whom are balking at paying for care they once received for free through their public schools.


Milne releases platform featuring tax incentives, education finance reform

By Xander Landen

Sep 15 2020September 15, 2020

Scott Milne

The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor called his platform, which includes roughly 60 proposals, a ‘blueprint’ for making the state ‘a better place to live.’


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