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Early Childhood
Raising young kids is an emotional roller coaster. Birth is hard. The identity transformation is real. And society is not set up to help families balance work and helping tiny humans grow.
There’s a lot of info out there about early childhood. This newsletter is your place to get caught up on the big topics that are most important to you and your family. We do the heavy lifting for you to sort through the news and curate key reads and resources about issues affecting families with children ages 0–5. We share information about everything from how to navigate your first pregnancy and how state policies like transitional kindergarten affect early education, to what awesome children’s books to read next.
More from Early Childhood Education
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There are more homeless infants and toddlers in CA. What does this mean for early learning programs?More than 5% of California’s infants and toddlers are estimated to have experienced homelessness in 2023-24, a rise of about 12,000, or 16%, from the previous year.
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Southern California Counties, including Los Angeles, account for the highest numbers of homeless students in the state.
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Head Start changes may include eliminating rules that ensure low student-to-teacher ratios and minimum teacher qualifications.
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The first phase of LAUSD’s screentime limits starts in August.
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Officials say the number of unhoused people in families with children countywide was down compared to the year before. But they say there's more to the story.
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More fathers than mothers are applying for paid family leave benefits to bond with a new child in California from when the program first started more than 20 years ago.
