Child Care & COVID-19 News Archive

Below are recent articles, stories and footage relating to COVID-19 and the early childhood education sector.

In the News – 2021

• Nov. 3: Local governments steer money to Juneau child care centers struggling to find workers (KTOO)
• Nov. 3: Relief, excitement and some anxiety as newly eligible Alaska children receive COVID-19 vaccine (ADN)
• Oct. 29: Local leaders press Dunleavy on school funding (The Cordova Times)
• Oct. 28: President Biden Announces the Build Back Better Framework (The White House)
• Oct. 21: Alaska child care providers see long delays in monthly payments, background checks after state cyberattack (Alaska News Source)
• Oct. 21: Alaska scrambles to spend nearly $100M in federal child care relief as centers close (KTOO)
• Oct. 20: 1 in 3 working families is struggling to find the child care they desperately need (NPR)
• Oct. 6: Moms Are Back to Work, But Child Care Resources Are ‘Laughable’ (New York Times)
• Sept. 22: Alaska will greatly benefit from historic infrastructure bill (ADN)
• Sept. 19: Child-care workers are quitting rapidly, a red flag for the economy (ADN)
• Sept. 7: Anchorage business owners fear worker burnout as hiring struggles persist (Alaska Public Media)
• Aug. 15: Anchorage Programs to Help the Hispanic Population (Sol De Medianoche)
• Aug. 15: The business of early childhood care (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
• Aug. 14: Many Anchorage families are scrambling to find child care as the school year begins (ADN)
• Aug. 10: Talk of Alaska – The challenge of child care (Alaska Public Media)
• Aug. 2: Child care is key in Alaska’s transition to a vibrant economy (ADN)
• July 19: Childcare staffing shortage making it hard for parents to go back to work (Alaska’s News Source)
• July 15: Labor shortage forcing Anchorage youth organization to offer fewer childcare programs at local schools this year (Alaska’s News Source)
• July 13: Alaska’s child care sector, essential to economic recovery, is struggling to find workers (Alaska Public Media)
• July 12: Too many jobs, not enough people: Panel focuses on impacts of workforce shortage in Alaska (Alaska’s News Source)
• June 25: Congressional Child Care Champions Release Bold Legislative Proposals (Child Care Aware of America)
• June 11: Would You Like Fries with That? How Low Wages Exploit America’s Child Care Workforce and Undermine its Future (Early Learning Nation)
• June 6: As parents return to work, child care providers want a more sustainable model (KTOO)
• May 24: Growing the Economy Through Affordable Child Care (Center for American Progress)
• May 18: What’s the impact of CDC’s no-masks guidance on kids? (Alaska’s News Source)
• May 18: Healthy Living: Advice to improve children’s mental health (Alaska’s News Source)
• May 17: Child cash benefit payments will begin hitting millions of parents’ bank accounts July 15 (ADN)
• May 14: Op-Ed: The child care workforce is key to recovery (ADN)
• May 9: Policymakers Used to Ignore Child Care. Then Came the Pandemic. (New York Times)
  • May 11: Child Care is infrastructure (Eye on Early Education)
• April 30: Governor Dunleavy Ends Alaska COVID-19 Emergency Declaration, Signs House Bill 76 (State of Alaska)
• April 26: Democrats outline ‘care infrastructure’ plan, with paid leave and child care (Alaska Public Media)
• April 26: Doing right by kids: How to pay for quality early childhood education at a scale we need? (Hometown Alaska – APRN)
• April 22: New Virtual Call Center reduces processing time for Alaskans seeking public assistance (State of Alaska)
• April 20: Child care is essential to rebuilding Alaska’s economy (ADN)
• April 19: Learn about funding Items in the Governor’s American Rescue Plan package (State of Alaska)
• March 23: Federal dollars could be ‘game changer’ for Alaska families (Alaska Public Media)
• March 22: Alaska educators breathe sigh of relief as hundreds of millions of federal dollars roll in (Alaska Public Media)
• March 18: Billions of COVID relief dollars are going to child care. Here’s why advocates say more needs to be done to fix the crisis (CNBC)
• March 14: Alaska will get a massive injection of money from the COVID-19 aid bill. Here’s where it’ll go (ADN)
• March 9: Dunleavy Announces COVID-19 Vaccine Available to All Alaskans (State of Alaska)
• Feb. 25: Tell us about being a working mother in Alaska during the pandemic (ADN)
• Feb. 24: Many child-care workers don’t earn a living wage—and that was the case even before the pandemic (CNBC)
• Feb. 24: The Current State of America’s Child Care Industry (Bipartisan Policy)
• Feb. 4: America’s childcare crisis: how it unfairly puts the burden on women, how the U.S. stacks up against other countries, and the one time in history the government subsidized day care. (The Daily Show)
• Jan. 27: What President Biden’s American Rescue Plan Could Mean for Child Care (Child Care Aware of America)
• Jan. 26: Gov. Dunleavy introduces bill to extend COVID-19 disaster emergency declaration until the Fall (ADN)
• Jan. 20: Early Care and Education is in Crisis: Biden Can Intervene (Center for the Study of Child Care Employment – Berkeley)
• Jan. 13: Soldotna teachers hope a return to in-school classes will help bridge a distance-learning divide (ADN)
• Jan. 11: Four Anchorage mayoral candidates attend forum on child and family issues (Alaska’s News Source)
• Jan. 11: How to get a small business loan from the new $284 billion PPP program (ADN)