December 2, 2021 SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker announced a whopping $300 million in relief grants for childcare providers. Pritzker says the grants are designed to assist the families of 95,000 children by making childcare more affordable....
Dear Friends, While we're cheered by the latest incremental progress on legislation to support families and education in Washington D.C., we know that we cannot wait for Federal action on these pressing issues. Work at the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation and among our broad network of...
Interviews and personal accounts from our grant recipients and 2021 Family Childcare Networks Innovation Winners....
Dear Friends, While we're cheered by the latest incremental progress on legislation to support families and education in Washington D.C., we know that we cannot wait for Federal action on these pressing issues. Work at the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation and among our broad network of...
October 28, 2021 This fall, two apprentices at the Coleman Center for Early Learning will serve as a pilot group. Secretary Barbara Cooper of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (ADECE) joined leaders from Troy University, Wallace Community College, and the Alabama Office of Apprenticeship to...
October 26, 2021 The Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation documentaries Tomorrow's Hope and Kaotic Drumline: Drumming with a Difference screened (in person!) in Los Angeles at Regal LA Live Cinemas, at the 12th Annual Awareness Film Festival. The Panel ("The Next Gen") featured the filmmaking team conversing...
October 12, 2021 Many Americans pay more for child care than they do for their mortgages, even though the wages for those who provide the care are among the lowest in the United States. Democrats see the issue as a fundamental market failure and are pushing...
October 12, 2021 Tonight at 10pm EST, PBS airs an hour-long documentary that takes an in-depth look at how the lack of affordable, quality child care is affecting American families, which has plagued families in the U.S. for more than a century....
October 5, 2021 Governor Hunt received the Dr. Robert E. Bridges Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 at WakeEd Partnership's Stars of Education event....
Sep. 30, 2021 By Betsy Biemann & Keith Bisson COVID-19 didn’t just reveal a broken child care system. A confluence of events dramatically worsened the frayed patchwork of child care programs in the US, after significant drops in center enrollment when parents lost jobs, shifts from in-school...
