January'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 January 2021.

OHIO NEWS

Akron Beacon Journal

• Child care centers want a shot at COVID-19 vaccines for staff

The Associated Press

• Child advocates: Ohio state foster plan illegal, inadequate

The Athens Messenger

• Ohio coalition wants state budget to focus on education, stability of children

Columbus Dispatch

• Former OU dean becomes Appalachian Children Coalition's first director

• Editorial: Time to recognize role of racism in infant mortality

Columbus Parent

• Future Ready Columbus Focuses on School Readiness

Coshocton Tribune

• New law to provide stipends to kinship caregivers of foster kids

The Daily Record

• ABOUT CHILDREN Support for affordable child care is an economic positive

Dayton Daily News

• Hamilton lawmaker pushed for safeguards in childcare centers that are now law

Fox 19

• Learning Grove expands operations to provide more childcare options in the Tri-State

Groundwork Ohio

• Groundwork Ohio Launches Innovative Center for Family Voice

IdeaStream

• CareSource Invests $5m In Fund To Make Cleveland Homes Lead Safe

• Ohio's Early Child Care Providers 'Left Out' Of Vaccine Rollout

LimaOhio.com

• Children Services, Coleman partner to help families battle substance abuse

News 5 Cleveland

• In-Depth: Ohio daycare costs surging during the pandemic, according to new survey

• CareSource invests $5 million in Cleveland's Lead Safe Home Fund to help make homes lead-free

• Educators in Ohio unite to make COVID-19 vaccine available to all those providing child care

• Ohio releases Lead Advisory Committee's final report

• Advocates for kinship caregivers call for equity to remove disparities with foster parents

Roll Call

• Feeling the pandemic’s burdens, mothers are looking to Congress

Spectrum News 1

• Early Childhood Educators Advocate for Vaccination Inclusion

Times Gazette

• Organization helps pre-K kids

WCPO Cincinnati

• Ohio preschool, daycare teachers left wondering where they fit in DeWine's vaccine rollout

WHIO

• Preschool teachers not included in Phase 1B

WKYC

• Why some educators are not eligible for vaccine starting next week

WOSU

• Report: Ohio Must Invest In Child Care To Address Rural Poverty

WRCB tv

• Ohio unveils limited plan to pay relatives caring for kids

WTRF

• “Kinship households” now will receive some funding

Yahoo Finance

• The MolinaCares Accord Announces Support to Groundwork Ohio to Launch the Center for Family Voice

NATIONAL NEWS

The 74

• Will Preschools Survive the Pandemic? Ailing Cleveland Pre-K Programs Hope Federal Funds Can Salvage Seven Years of Progress Among High-Poverty Children

The 19th

• About 700,000 parents with young kids left the workforce in 2020. For many, loss of child care was to blame.

Bipartisan Policy Center

• Payment Practices to Stabilize Child Care

• Increased Payment Rates to Support Child Care

Bloomberg

• The Economic Recovery Has a Child-Care Problem

Center for American Progress

• Saving Child Care Means Preserving Jobs and Supporting Working Families and Small Businesses

The Center for Law and Public Policy

• Why Child Care Needs Direct Spending, Not Just Tax Credits, During COVID and Beyond

CNBC

• A year ago, women outnumbered men in the U.S. workforce, now they account for 100% of jobs lost in December

Desert News

• Juggling parenting, work and a pandemic is not getting easier

EdSurge

• With the Pandemic Shining New Light on Early Childhood Educators, Proponents Look to ‘Radical’ Changes

• Can You Provide a Quality Preschool Education Over Zoom?

• Hailed as ‘Heroes,’ Child Care Workers in Some States Are Denied Vaccine Priority

First Five Years Fund

• Bipartisan Bill Passed to Improve Safety in Child Care Facilities

• Biden Relief Proposal Underscores Child Care as Central to Economic Recovery

Health Affairs

• Expanding Postpartum Medicaid Benefits To Combat Maternal Mortality And Morbidity

The Hechinger Report

• OPINION: To solve the workforce crisis, America has to invest in child care

• OPINION: How the gig economy puts children’s development at risk and what we can do about it

• OPINION: The Biden administration has a real chance to boost early childhood education

• PROOF POINTS: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users

Jezebel

• This Is What Childcare Could Look Like

Motherly

• NEW STUDY: Working moms are struggling more than ever during Covid-19

• Child care workers need to be moved to the front of the COVID vaccine line—immediately

National Association of Counties

• Poverty causes long-term negative health effects for children, economic impact for counties

Newsweek

• Early Childhood Educators are Essential to Our Economy and Our Future | Opinion

The Rippon Advance

• Burr’s bipartisan Child Care Protection Improvement Act ready for president’s signature

USA Today

• Child care problems skyrocketed under COVID. Women paid the price.

U.S. News & World Report

• Biden Outlines Plan to Solve Child Care Crisis

Vox

• Biden’s Covid-19 stimulus plan includes $40 billion for child care

The Washington Post

• Advice from two experts on how Biden and Harris can tackle America’s child-care crisis

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