child care

After the pandemic decimated the child care industry, parents are now routinely waiting years for care and doing anything they can to get off a waitlist.

Citing low wages and COVID risk, King County and the City of Seattle will grant $7 million in one-time payments to child care workers. The money comes from a $5 million allocation from the county’s Best Start for Kids levy and $2.4 million from the city’s JumpStart tax to aid child care workers. The amount of individual payments will depend on the number of qualified applicants.

Parents in Western Washington – and in many parts of the country – are facing a school year like no other. Most districts here will begin with no…

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the child care industry into turmoil nationally and in Washington state. Many providers lost clients as parents…

The state Supreme Court has sided with a woman who was permanently barred from working in child care because of a criminal conviction.Christal Fields…

Gov. Jay Inslee said his budget proposal includes investments in the state's early learning system to help make sure kids are ready for school. But some…

It’s the agony of modern day parents: how to find and afford decent child care. This has become such a problem, the Washington Legislature has created a...

New regulations are in the works for child care centers and people who run day care out of their homes. Washington state aims to align rules for different…

In much of the U.S., demand for licensed infant care outstrips supply. Parents face lengthy waitlists, hefty waitlist fees, and few good options when returning to work after the birth of a baby.

About 20 states are in the process of creating a system for rating child care providers. But it's hard to decide which standards best measure quality and which are most useful to parents.