Carla Wright (center), toddler program teacher, helps 2-year-old Auri Johnson (right) with a sticker worksheet at Journeys Child Development Center in Grand Prairie, Texas, on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025.

The 2025 Texas legislative session is ending with a historic investment in child care. Legislators agreed to add $100 million in new funding for child care scholarships that benefit working families ...

Caregivers Claudel Lepe (left) and Shyela Gonzaga (center) lead a song for a combined class of young infants and older infants at Little Mustangs Child Learning Academy, Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2024, in ...

DIBOLL, Texas — This story was first published on the Texas Tribune and can be viewed here. Shortly after her eldest son was born in 2021, Acacia Tarver applied for a state scholarship to help her pay ...

For the past three decades, working parents in Texas who make below the state’s median income have been eligible for financial help from the government to pay for daycare. But as the cost of raising ...

Working Texas families seeking access to quality child care could receive more support under new laws recently passed by state lawmakers. The most significant development for child care was Senate ...

Clarissa Alday spends her morning reading to children at Katherine Sage Temple Early Learning Center in Diboll on Feb. 25, 2025. (Michael Cavazos For The Texas Tribune, Michael Cavazos For The Texas ...