Massachusetts is inviting families to join the first formal statewide Family Advisory Council. The council is designed to ...

Two state representatives are urging Gov. Healey to audit the child care subsidy program in Massachusetts due to concerns ...

Fraud allegations in Minnesota’s childcare system are prompting two Massachusetts Republican lawmakers to ask the Healey ...

BOSTON (WWLP) – A new report from the state auditor is looking into issues on what she says are serious within the state Department of Early Education and Care (EEC). State Auditor Diana DiZoglio says ...

MassHire Berkshire Workforce Board in Pittsfield received $198,375 to register a new early childhood education registered ...

Massachusetts' share of federal child care payments remains unaffected by the nationwide freeze announced by the Trump ...

The ECCIF will be administered by the Commonwealth Corporation Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Early Education and Care and the Executive Offices of Economic Development and Labor ...

BOSTON — At $1.8 billion, Gov. Maura Healey recommended a 20% boost in state support for early education and child care in her fiscal year 2026 spending plan, an increase that would nearly triple ...

A family childcare run by Martha Conlon of Dedham. The vast majority of infants and a plurality of toddlers in Massachusetts live in child care deserts, new state data show. Despite the recent ...

Jenise Lucey was excited when she discovered she could use her center’s funds to take children off the child care financial assistance waitlist. But when Lucey, the executive director of Berkshire ...

Children learn key life skills in their first five years. But the educators who impart them are often underpaid, particularly in Western Massachusetts. That’s according to Clare Higgins, executive ...