Plus, catching up with in-home child care providers who lost everything to Covid
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Liz Willen Hi all!
So much of what is written about U.S. education feels grim: declining public school enrollments, plunging test scores, teacher turnover – and, always, a lack of high-quality child care and preschool opportunities that set the groundwork for everything that comes next. That’s why I’m a sucker for stories with solutions and those with happy endings, like this one ([link removed]) out of Lexington, Nebraska.
Naidid Aguilera once spent her days hauling cow organs for inspection in a meat-packing plant but dreamed of working with children. Like many places in the United States, Lexington is a town in desperate need of Spanish-speaking child care providers. Spoiler alert: Aguilera opened her first, licensed child care business this spring, through a series of fortunate events and a lot of hard work and creative thinking.
We care deeply about early childhood education and those who are committed to the littlest learners at The Hechinger Report ([link removed]) , which is why I was also moved to see Hechinger's Sarah Carr go back ([link removed]) to the in-home child care providers she first wrote about ([link removed]) during the pandemic, when their centers were forced to shut down and many lost their livelihood completely. We’d love to hear your thoughts, and welcome story ideas and anything else that is on your mind. Also, one favor: Remind others to sign up for our newsletters ([link removed]) and become a member ([link removed]) !
Liz Willen, Editor
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** A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took ([link removed])
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In Lexington, Nebraska, where two-thirds of residents are Hispanic, hundreds of children lack access to high-quality child care from providers who can communicate with their parents. Something had to change.
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