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It’s Texas’s turn to establish child care support policies that will help grow the state’s economy and support Texas families now and in the future,” the UT Austin policy brief states.
From February 2022 to February 2023, Texas was one of only four states that increased the number of children and families on their wait lists for child care assistance, or began placing families ...
The groups implored all lawmakers to address issues such as the state’s waiting list of about 80,000 children who are awaiting financial assistance to help pay for child care, in addition to the ...
The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 2013 would reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 through FY2019. [ 3 ] The bill would revise the Act to allow a joint interagency office, designated by the governor, to serve as the lead agency for a state desiring to receive a community services programs child care ...
The Office of Child Care (OCC) is a division of the US Executive Branch under the Administration for Children and Families and the Department of Health and Human Services. [ 1 ] : 597 It was officially formed in 2010 and replaced the former Child Care Bureau, which was itself established under the Administration on Children, Youth and Families ...
The number of foster children in the state's care increased 24 percent to 32,474 in Fiscal 2005, while the number of deaths increased 60 percent. Compared to the general population, a child is four times more likely to die in the Texas foster care system.
Texans Care for Children released an updated dashboard of data and policy recommendations on Wednesday. New Texas school readiness data shows child care, pre-K gaps. What are proposed solutions?
For many families, child care was more expensive than the price of housing and health insurance, the report found. In 2020, the average cost of child care in the United States surpassed $10,000 ...