Child care is a particularly thorny challenge for small businesses and their employees; Congress can help, writes .

Sixty percent of rural Americans live in child care deserts — regions with too few licensed slots for children. In rural Illinois, that number rises to nearly 70%. Over the past decade, Illinois ...

A Grand Falls-Windsor mother is raising questions about classroom supervision after her 11-year-old daughter suffered a ...

A day care worker in Cumberland County is accused of assaulting two children. Lea Waddell, 28, is charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of children and one count of simple assault.

A student is at school and comes down with an earache. Does that warrant a call to the parents to check their child out and ...

Emily Badgett told 40/29 News that she did not know her son was physically restrained inside his special education classroom until she saw his picture posted online.

Although 2024 statistics aren't out yet, Child Care Aware found that in 2023, it cost $11,659 to place a toddler in family care and $12,158 to place an infant in family care.

Going to school will almost certainly help. It’s not only that he will get used to “leaving the fun.” It’s that he’ll see ...

What’s it like teaching first, fifth and sixth graders all in one day? School librarian Jami Rhue shares her experience.

The parents say the boy has been a little more clingy since the worker at the Learning Lab day care in Homewood put their 4-year-old son in a trash can as punishment for refusing to take a nap. A ...

The new building would contain 12,000 square feet of classroom space for its preschool programs, with room for expansion.

A south suburban daycare worker was caught on camera putting a child in a garbage can. The child's parents say they are shocked by what they are calling outright cruelty, in an ABC7 Chicago exclusive.