Liz Bell

2 weeks ago | the74million.org | Liz Bell

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter State legislators from both parties want to expand family child care — the home-based sector of licensed child care, which has shrunk by more than a third since 2018. Both the House and Senate budget proposals include pilots to open new programs to meet the needs of families and employers.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Liz Bell

This article was originally published in CalMatters. This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California’s schools and colleges receive billions in federal funding each year — money that President Donald Trump is threatening to terminate over the actions of one student. AB Hernandez, a junior from Jurupa Valley High School, is transgender, and on May 31 she won first- and second-place medals at the state track and field championship.

2 weeks ago | ednc.org | Liz Bell

State legislators from both parties want to expand family child care — the home-based sector of licensed child care, which has shrunk by more than a third since 2018. Both the House and Senate budget proposals include pilots to open new programs to meet the needs of families and employers. For the past two years, a team from the nonprofit Southwestern Child Development Commission (SWCDC) has done just that, creating North Carolina’s first statewide system of support for family child care.

3 weeks ago | us9.campaign-archive.com | Mebane Rash |Liz Bell |Ben S. Humphries |Anna Pogarcic

Want to help with Helene recovery, support public schools? Rural tourism matters by Mebane Rash During the 2023-24 school year, local revenue for school districts supported 23% of expenditures — a total of $4,171,471,919 statewide. Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina at the end of September 2024, tourists were not able to visit to see… Continue reading → Cracking open child care budgets at Gov. Stein’s early childhood task force by Liz Bell Members of Gov.

3 weeks ago | ednc.org | Liz Bell

Members of Gov. Josh Stein’s Task Force on Child Care and Early Education got a peek inside child care programs’ budgets at the group’s third meeting Monday. The task force’s first report, with recommendations on how the state should expand access to high-quality, affordable child care, is due to the governor’s office at the end of June.