What is Ahead for the Early Childhood Field?

03/31/2021

What is Ahead for the Early Childhood Field?

I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

“With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act...American families and child-care providers can look forward to a roughly $40 billion infusion for an industry rocked with closures and dramatically increased operating costs amid the pandemic...The $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package ... provides $39 billion in direct funding for child-care providers through programs like the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program (CCDBG) and an additional $1 billion allocated to the Head Start program.” writes Megan Leonhardt on the CNBC website.

Sara Gilliam, Editor-in-Chief of Exchange magazine, in a conversation with HiMama, shared her thoughts about the challenges and opportunities ahead for the early childhood field. Listen here.

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