Heidi and Dawn are students in south suburban Oak Forest High School`s child-care class. Striving to be child-care workers, they are learning firsthand how to take care of future Amandas and Melissas.

Researchers from Yale University gathered data from over 57,000 child care providers in the U.S. amid the first several months in the pandemic to assess for an elevated risk of infection.

One child comes up to ask for help with tying a shoelace, another to show off a drawing and a third just to say hi. The soft-spoken Fanelli, 17, responds […] Skip to content ...

Would-be students flock to a course for early child-care providers at a Grove church. Childcare providers in the Williamsburg area were quick to sign up for a free education course this semester &#… ...

About 500 child-care centers and 800 home-based family providers operate in Montgomery; about 50 percent of centers and 70 percent of family child-care homes have reopened, though enrollment is lower.

As the city’s affordability crisis worsens for nearly everyone, even upper-middle-class New Yorkers are struggling to pay for child care. The workers who provide it are struggling too.

It's nearing 5 p.m. at La Petite Academy child-care center in Columbia, and Danielle Oliver is on her own with six 2-year-olds. A couple of boys are emptying bins of toys.