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Quality child care and development facilities are good for the community and good for business. A preschool program follows the same basic license and permit laws as child care facilities. Start with ...

Early education programs are widely believed to be effective public investments for helping children succeed in school and for reducing income- and race-based achievement gaps. However, a new study ...

State-based preschool programs suffered big drops in enrollment and state funding in the teeth of the pandemic, according to an annual review by the National Institute for Early Education Research ...