The New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute published a new report Monday analyzing the state’s childcare tuition assistance program and its problems, and offered potential expansion strategies and improvements for providers and families.  The New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program helps families afford childcare by subsidizing tuition costs and paying childcare programs directly for services. The […]

For 37 years, Emmanuel Child Care Center operated out of Emmanuel Church in Rochester, providing infant, toddler, and preschool care to families on the Seacoast. On Aug. 28, the center closed its doors.  According to Pastor John Tate, the childcare program was no longer the best use of the space to meet the community’s needs. […]

With the price of childcare for New Hampshire families rivaling college tuition, more are looking to the state’s scholarship program for assistance. New data shows that in the past fiscal year, usage of the program increased, while the state is spending over $12 million more than the previous year.  The New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship […]

With New Hampshire’s legislative session finished and election season on the horizon, current and potential state legislators attended a candidate briefing in Concord on Thursday to learn about the issues impacting the childcare sector.  The event, called “The Workforce Behind the Workforce: A Candidate Briefing on Childcare,” was hosted by Save the Children Action Network, […]

With over 30 years of teaching experience, Amy Upton prides herself on setting the bar for high-quality early education and childcare. As the executive director of East Side Learning Center in Concord, which operates both early childhood and school-age childcare, quality care is important to her and her business.  So when the state unveiled its […]

Last month, New Hampshire Executive Councilors John Stephen and Joe Kenney published a column in NH Journal explaining their decision to vote down a childcare quality contract in favor of funding the childcare workforce grant. Since then, as new information has clarified the state’s inability to fund the workforce grant, they both said they stand […]

After more than a year of debate, New Hampshire childcare providers received a direct answer this week on childcare workforce grant funding.  In a series of letters exchanged between federal officials, state officials, and an advocacy group, it has been determined that federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, dollars cannot be used to […]