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ELIC highlights the business need for childcare investments
Together with the Early Learning Investment Commission (ELIC), the Early Childhood Education Caucus met on Wednesday, May 7 to hear from speakers who have explored public-private strategies that advance quality early childhood education and child care. Labor Economist, Dr. Kathryn Edwards, headlined the event by detailing the economic impact of early childhood education on Pennsylvania’s prosperity. [Read More]
Polling Shows Pennsylvanians Care to See a Funding Increase for Child Care
Just as the Pennsylvania 2025-26 state budget negotiations begin; partners of the Early Learning PA Coalition are releasing new polling data showing strong voter support for early childhood care and education programs and increased state funding to strengthen and grow these services. [Read More]
Chambers of Commerce Across the Commonwealth Support Child Care
UPDATE (June 21, 2024): More than 50 organizations have now signed on to the letter. Local chambers of commerce from across Pennsylvania signed a letter urging lawmakers to address Pennsylvania’s continuous child care crisis. Child care is the workforce behind our workforce and without safe, reliable child care, our working families suffer. The staffing shortage […] [Read More]
Advocates Continue the Call to Address Teacher Shortage
This week, child care providers, advocates, and a bi-partisan slate of lawmakers rallied on the steps of the capitol to highlight the impact of a historic child care teacher shortage driven by low-wages and called on the general assembly to invest in a recruitment and retention grant program as part of the final budget deal to help keep teachers in the classroom. [Read More]
Working Mothers Carry the Burden of Inconsistent Child Care
“$2.4 Billion: The Annual Cost of PA’s Child Care Crisis for Working Mothers” is a new report from the nonprofit ReadyNation that looks specifically at the economic impact of PA’s working mothers’ struggles with gaps in our child care system. [Read More]
States Prove that Recruitment, Retention Investments Work
Start Strong PA’s report “Solving the Child Care Teacher Shortage Through State Recruitment and Retention Investments” details how others states are navigating the child care teacher shortage crisis that is closing programs and driving up waitlists for working families in need of care. [Read More]