Increased costs in food and payroll at child care centers effectively wiped out the one-time investment state lawmakers ...

Access to affordable child care is a growing concern as Texas’ booming economy gains 1,500 new people daily, yet families ...

Parents of qualifying children in Texas will be able to receive the state’s standard school voucher of about $10,000 to ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — The number of measles cases continues to climb in Texas. The epicenter is still in Gaines County in the Texas panhandle, but child care centers in Dallas-Fort Worth are increasing ...

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 ...

The rules come as the program is set to open up applications next month for private vendors that want to participate.

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 ...

Pita Espinosa leads a group of young children in a song that teaches Spanish words at the Learning Tree child care center in Yoakum in 2022. (Annie Mulligan For The Texas Tribune, Annie Mulligan For ...

Ruben makes a stop in Stratford and learns why a local child care facility is thankful for the High Plains Food Bank.

A group of child care providers discussed how they serve working parents and the economy during Global Entrepreneurship Week ...

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 ...

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