"Without sufficient nutrition and stimulation, a stable home environment and quality early-childhood education, children tend to start..."

If Step Up to Quality is weakened or gutted, children will be the losers.

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The next week is critical in saving Ohio's quality child care system. Here's how you can take action today to save quality child care...

"Tossing this baby out with the bathwater would amount to throwing our babies out of future opportunities to thrive."

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"We must use our voices to support Ohio’s children, women, and families by opposing the Senate’s efforts to dismantle Step Up To Quality."

"Do you want to invest in babysitting or do you want to invest in something that will yield in returns later?"

“The research is clear: Public investment in quality child care yields tremendous benefits and cost-savings for children, families, and..."

Business leaders, early childhood professionals, and parents joined Groundwork Ohio to speak out against efforts to end Step Up To Quality.

Eliminating Step Up to Quality will lead to drastic reductions in child care quality and a lack of focus on the future workforce...

“Eliminating Step Up to Quality would be a betrayal and a reckless use of federal and state funding for our children..."

A recent analysis by the University of Cincinnati Economics Center found that quality child care and early education...

Child care professionals deserve hero pay -- they are the workforce behind the workforce and the unsung heroes of Ohio's child care system.

"This proposal fails to give families the quality child care they need to work and the enriching early experiences that children need..."

Business leaders and child care advocates are calling on lawmakers to reverse course on a change proposed in the state budget bill.

Following the release of the Ohio Senate's proposal to eliminate Step Up to Quality, Groundwork Ohio snapped into action to mobilize Ohioans

We are calling on Ohioans to speak up for quality child care...

Groundwork Ohio testified before the Senate Finance Committee on the importance of Step Up to Quality.

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