Recent News

April 15, 2025

Nearly 32,000 children are on the waitlist, and it's unclear when there will be enough state funding to start issuing new vouchers again.  

January 30, 2025

Healey-Driscoll Administration is focused on affordable child care, teaching kids to read, strengthening public education, reimagining high school, mental health supports, improving access and success in higher education

January 16, 2025

“Gateway to Pre-K" agenda will also increase child care financial assistance to thousands of families and sustain historic C3 funding for providers

January 10, 2025

Board of Early Education Approves Healey-Driscoll Administration’s Transformative Proposal, 6th State in the Nation Federally Approved to Use Cost of Care Data

February 15, 2025

Massachusetts is the only state that has continued to fully fund a popular pandemic-era child care grant program after the federal...

January 14, 2025

Massachusetts still struggles to recruit and retain early educators as wages remain too low...

January 9, 2025

BOSTON — As a task force gears up to release recommendations to boost early education and child care affordability and access, family child care providers are seeking to build awareness of their operating model and funding challenges.

November 21, 2024

​​MASSACHUSETTS’ CHILD CARE system serving the state’s most vulnerable children has seen improvement in recent years, but a new report warns that issues with recruiting and keeping workers could undermine efforts to expand access to affordable child care. With federal support from a second Trump administration uncertain, funding these programs increasingly depends on Bay State budget math.

September 23, 2024

A quartet of organizations across Massachusetts will share $1.4 million in grant money to grow the state's early childhood education...