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Inside Canada’s 50-year fight for national child care

The Hechinger Report

The new system aims to provide child care for an average of $10 a day in licensed settings, with plans to create an additional 250,000 spots for children by 2026. This movement came after decades of structured, organized advocacy , much of which started after the commission’s report.

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With little federal support for families, states are stepping up  

The Hechinger Report

For example, Connecticut rolled out a 12-week paid family leave program, and Delaware, Nevada and Virginia increased their state minimum wage to at least $10 an hour. Those laws will go into effect between 2023 and 2026. In the same time period, an additional eight states fully launched at least one of the policies.

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What America can learn from Canada’s new ‘$10 a Day’ child care system

The Hechinger Report

The new Canada-wide system was “very much situated in the context of economic recovery,” said Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, an advocacy association in Canada. For example, in Canada, non-licensed, home-based providers have been left out of the system, as have other, more informal kinds of care.

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10 Things To Know about the Future of Blockchain in Education

Doug Levin

However, Bitcoin is not synonymous with blockchain, nor is it even necessarily the best example or tool for every blockchain application. To that end (and based on my DC Blockchain Summit experience), here is my current list of the top 10 things to know about the future of blockchain in education.

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For Families Needing the Most Help, Child Care Costs Are About to Drop

Edsurge

All will need to be in compliance by 2026. Only about 14 percent of families eligible for the child care subsidies are actually enrolled in the program, according to a report from the First Five Years Fund, a child care and early learning advocacy group. The new rule is effective April 30.

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College Uncovered, Season 2, Episode 4

The Hechinger Report

Kirk: You’re talking about 2026, when we’ll see the number of 18-year-olds drop precipitously because no one was having babies in 2008, during the Great Recession. Jon: So if a school is losing accreditation, for example, those credits essentially have no value anymore. It’s not going to be less.

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Short on financial knowledge, some school districts get bad deals on bonds

The Hechinger Report

There are some circumstances in which a noncompetitive sale is the better option: when a district has a low credit rating and is unlikely to attract any bidders, for example, or when the bond deal is complex. This year, for example, the Fox C-6 School District asked voters to approve a $70 million bond to upgrade aging school buildings.

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