Early Childhood Education Terms and What They Mean
Terms related to Early Care and Education that may be helpful to understand.
Let’s Grow Kids Action Network
Your one-stop-shop for tools and resources to become a champion for Vermont’s children. We regularly update this page so be sure to bookmark it to stay up to date on our most important actions!
MomsRising Early Care and Education Campaign
All families should have access to affordable, high-quality early care and education opportunities that are welcoming and inclusive of all self-defined families, provide for a well-trained and compensated workforce, and create environments where all children can thrive so that all children are ready and successful for school and life regardless of race, ZIP code, ability, identity, or any other factor.
Farm to Early Childhood in New England: New Report Outlines Current Landscape and Opportunities
This illustrated and interactive overview of the farm to early childhood space across the six New England states was designed to help regional interest holders better understand the early childhood sector and to identify the key opportunities for expanding farm to early childhood activity across the six New England states.
$122 Billion: The Growing, Annual Cost of the Infant-Toddler Child Care Crisis
ReadyNation’s updated study finds that the nation’s infant-toddler child care crisis now costs $122 billion in lost earnings, productivity, and revenue every year. This staggering economic toll impacts working parents, their employers, and the nation’s taxpayers. Our 2018 study found that the crisis was already severely damaging the pre-pandemic economy, exacting a cost of $57 billion annually. A combination of COVID-19 and insufficient policy action have now significantly worsened the crisis.
The Childcare Crisis in New Hampshire and Attendance vs Enrollment Based Scholarships
In this YouTube video, MomsRising explains a small segment of the issue and explain how a simple policy solution – the change from attendance based scholarships to enrollment based scholarships – can help ensure that New Hampshire families do not continue to fall through the cracks. Families can’t work without childcare and childcare providers need adequate support to keep their doors open.
Why Interstate Child Care Scholarship Policy Choices Matter in the Upper Valley
This brief explores how state-level decisions manifest in the child care sector, contextualizing findings within the specific context of the Upper Valley as an interstate region.
Child Care Investments and Policies in the Upper Valley, in the Pandemic and Beyond
This brief explores the pandemic era decisions and investments each state made to support the early education and care sector and describes some of the challenges ahead for the field.
Changing Child Care Supply in New Hampshire and Vermont’s Upper Valley
In this brief, we describe the early childhood education and care landscape of Grafton and Sullivan Counties in New Hampshire and Orange and Windsor Counties in Vermont, contextualizing those findings with comparisons to data from the pre-pandemic period of 2017.
