August's Early Childhood Education in the News

Each month, Groundwork Ohio reads the latest and greatest resources on early education and health from a wide variety of sources. Below is a compilation of the most important articles we have read throughout August, 2020.

OHIO NEWS

Chronical Telegram

• An Ohio law may prevent some families from receiving child care in the fall

Cincinnati Enquirer

• COVID-19: State offers a license to child care providers for school-age distance learners

• Opinion: Child care the underpinning for our economic recovery

• Opinion: Virus has exposed broken, underfunded child care system

• Opinion: Healthy birth just the first step in child's development

Cincinnati Business Courier

• OUR VIEW: Funding for safe, affordable child care must be priority for lawmakers

Cleveland.com

• COVID-19 has laid bare why we need to fully fund early childhood care and education: Katie Kelly and Will Petrik

• Ohio daycares can take school-age children learning remotely, as of Tuesday

Cleveland Scene

• New Child Data to Help Ohio Counties Navigate Path Forward

Columbus Dispatch

• Editorial: Kids’ care must come first in state’s recovery

• Ohio State professor helps create child care fund for Black women

Crain’s Cleveland Business

• Child care centers work to balance budgets, stay safe under new state regulations

Dayton 24/7 Now

• Children wearing masks: safety precautions explained by Dayton Children's Hospital

• Court teams in Montgomery County receive grant for children

Local 12

• Day cares in Ohio now allowed to return to full capacity, class sizes

Marion Star

• COVID-19: Pressing need for child care in Marion County

News 5 Cleveland

• Early education centers struggle to add staff to meet growing demand

• UH pediatrician weighs in on whether caregivers in face masks could have a negative impact on a child's development

Northeast Ohio Parent

• How to Foster Pre-K STEM Smarts

Northern Kentucky Tribune

• Patti Gleason: Quality early childhood education is at center stage — and funding has to be more than a band-aid

Portsmouth Daily Times

• Commissioners encourage residents to become foster parents

WCPO Cincinnati

• Groundwork Ohio: Childcare providers need $50B to survive next 6 months

WDTN

• Child care providers back to full capacity

• Daycare facilities deciding between state funding or increased class sizes

WHIOTV 7

• Fairborn daycare closes for 2 weeks after positive coronavirus case

WLWT 5

• DeWine encourages Ohio parents to sign up for book gifting program tied to Dolly Parton

WTOL 11

• West Toledo childcare center taking its time returning to full-capacity

NATIONAL NEWS

The 74

• Masks, Divided Tables, Assigned Spots on the Rug: Inside One Preschool’s Strategy for Coping With COVID-19

Business Insider

• American childcare is broken — and the people who need it most can't afford it. If children are the future, we have to consider it an investment.

Center for American Progress

• The Child Care Crisis Disproportionately Affects Children with Disabilities

• Policymakers Must Fund Home Visiting Programs During COVID-19

• Adversity in Early Childhood

CNN

• Millions of children threatened by hunger need Congress to come together

First Five Years Fund

• Child Care & Business Leaders Urge McConnell for Child Care Relief in Recovery Package

• New Survey Highlights Growing Child Care Concerns for Parents as Pandemic Continues

• ‘Voting for Kids’ Panels Create Conversation at Democratic and Republican Conventions

• Lawmakers Urge Increased Funding for IDEA Early Intervention Services

The Hill

• Centers report handling 40,000 fewer child abuse cases amid coronavirus pandemic

Medium

• Bearing Witness: Family Voices That We Can’t Ignore

• How Long Can the Levee Hold?

Motherly

• FaceTime with friends: How to make video chats meaningful + fun for babies and little kids

NBC News

• Pregnant in a pandemic: How COVID-19 stress may affect growing babies

NPR

• 1 In 5 Child Care Jobs Were Lost Since Pandemic Started. Women Are Affected Most

The New York Times

• Helping Children with Pandemic Grief

Psychology Today

• What Parents of Babies and Toddlers Need Right Now

Vox

• Elizabeth Warren made a crucial point at the Democratic convention: Child care is “infrastructure for families”

• America is failing Black moms during the pandemic

The Washington Post

• How to help children adjust to masks, according to experts and parents

Yahoo! News

• Child-care needs weigh on parents' back-to-school plans: Goldman Sachs

• During the pandemic, are the little kids all right? Survey shows COVID is taking a toll now and will in the future.

---

View Our Monthly Archive >

#ECE #WhatWeRead #August2020 #InTheNews