Education Week – Alyson Klein
“President Barack Obama made a big pitch for expanding federal child-care help in this State of the Union address—and then again in a speech at the University of Kansas Thursday. Now the White House has released some more details of its plan to expand access to child-care programs—including a proposal for a $100 million new, competitive grant program to help states create, put in place, and evaluate new ways of delivering child care. The program would fund pilot projects to test out promising ideas for helping rural families, parents who work outside the typical 9 to 5 schedule, and families of children with disabilities find good child care.”(more)