Arkansas is home to an estimated 180,000 children under the age of 5. About two-thirds of them, or 120,000, are considered “economically disadvantaged” and qualify for publicly funded child care or ...

Jen Legere, owner and director of A Place to Grow, hangs staff credentials on the walls of her child care centers. Being ...

In recent years, a number of states have moved to consolidate disparately administered early childhood programs into a single agency to improve coordination of services and reduce administrative ...

"A child’s developmental health is our community’s economic health," writes Alignment Rockford's Jillisa Bondurant.

These programs are doing their part every day for the state's children and families. The rest of us must do ours to support ...