February's Early Childhood Education in the News

Each month, Groundwork Ohio reads the latest and greatest resources on early education and health from a wide variety of sources. Below is a compilation of the most important articles we have read throughout February 2021.

OHIO NEWS

Cleveland 19

• Ohio child care workers fight for COVID-19 vaccine as K-12 educators get shots

Cleveland.com

• How the coronavirus pandemic is pushing moms out of the workforce: Tell us your stories

• All Clevelanders need to step up to help wipe out childhood lead poisoning: Ketan Jolly and Wynne Zheng

Cleveland Jewish News

• Early childhood educators feel abandoned, demoralized by state's vaccine rollout

Columbus Dispatch

• Column: Child care crisis during pandemic sets back learning and earning

Local 12

• Day cares are essential, but employees are being left off priority list in vaccine rollout

Ohio Capital Journal

• Lead testing of Ohio children plummets during pandemic

The Post

• Here’s the Tea: Early child care educators deserve to be in Ohio’s first phase of COVID-19 vaccines

Star Beacon

• Day care challenges amidst COVID-19

WKSU

• Ohio Stands Firm in Excluding Daycare and Pre-K Workers from Vaccine Priorities

WKYC

• The Mother Load: How the COVID-19 pandemic exposed issues of affordable child care for parents & what lawmakers are doing about it

NATIONAL NEWS

The 74

• Will Preschools Survive the Pandemic? Ailing Cleveland Pre-K Programs Hope Federal Funds Can Salvage Seven Years of Progress Among High-Poverty Children

Axios

• More parents leave jobs to care for children

• A million American mothers are out of work

Bloomberg

• U.S. Child-Poverty Crisis Spurs Stepped-Up Efforts in Congress

CBS News

• Child care workers, crucial to economic recovery, earn poverty wages in 40 states

Center for American Progress

• 6 Ways To Ensure Preschool Contributes to an Equitable Early Childhood System

The Center for Law and Public Policy

• The Roots of Discipline-Induced Trauma for Black Children in Early Childhood Settings

CNBC

• CLOSING THE GAP: The gender equity policies experts say Biden should focus on right now

EdSurge

• The Pandemic Has Compounded the Turnover Problem in Early Childhood Education

Fatherly

• Study Shows Raising Minimum Wage Will Lower Infant Mortality Rate

First Five Years Fund

• Child Care Leaders Urge Lawmakers to Prioritize Child Care Relief

• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Urges President, Congress to Provide Child Care Relief Funding

The Hechinger Report

• The ‘invisible’ front line workers of education

• After mass closures, too little support, post-pandemic child care options will be scarce

• Outdoor preschools grow in popularity but most serve middle-class white kids

The Hill

• How Biden can leave a legacy as the 'Early Education' president

• Black maternal health omnibus package introduced by Democratic lawmakers

• The care economy as an infrastructure investment

Motherly

• Why child care is so expensive when child care workers make so little—and what we can do about it

Ms. Magazine

• The U.S. Has an Abysmal Track Record for Maternal Health

The Nation

• In Some States, Child Care Workers Won’t Get the Covid Vaccine for Months

The New Republic

• How to Stop Poisoning Children

The New York Times

• America’s Mothers Are in Crisis

• Powell Says Better Child Care Policies Might Lift Women in Work Force

Third Way

• Child Care in Crisis

Vox

• Child care workers are getting left behind in the vaccine rollout

The Washington Post

• Opinion: The pandemic is devastating a generation of working women

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