"Without sufficient nutrition and stimulation, a stable home environment and quality early-childhood education, children tend to start..."

If Step Up to Quality is weakened or gutted, children will be the losers.

"Tossing this baby out with the bathwater would amount to throwing our babies out of future opportunities to thrive."

"We must use our voices to support Ohio’s children, women, and families by opposing the Senate’s efforts to dismantle Step Up To Quality."

"Do you want to invest in babysitting or do you want to invest in something that will yield in returns later?"

“The research is clear: Public investment in quality child care yields tremendous benefits and cost-savings for children, families, and..."

Eliminating Step Up to Quality will lead to drastic reductions in child care quality and a lack of focus on the future workforce...

“Eliminating Step Up to Quality would be a betrayal and a reckless use of federal and state funding for our children..."

A recent analysis by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center found that quality child care and early education...

Child care professionals deserve hero pay -- they are the workforce behind the workforce and the unsung heroes of Ohio's child care system.

"This proposal fails to give families the quality child care they need to work and the enriching early experiences that children need..."

Business leaders and child care advocates are calling on lawmakers to reverse course on a change proposed in the state budget bill.

Groundwork Ohio testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the importance of Step Up to Quality.

Early childhood advocates say eliminating the Ohio's Step Up to Quality system will hurt children.

Northeast Ohio mothers voice support for efforts to expand access to publicly funded child care.

Advocates are looking to the Ohio Senate to prioritize issues affecting young children, including infant and maternal health and child care.

Access to affordable, high-quality child care helps Ohioans return to and stay in the workforce.

Groundwork Ohio joined the Ohio Children's Budget Coalition to urge lawmakers to invest more in Ohio's young children and their families.

With senators closing in on the deadline for initial budget amendments, a coalition of children advocates is urging investment in youth.

One of the most critical issues that must be addressed in the state budget is access to quality child care.