Several early childhood education centers in the region have taken part in a saliva-based test pilot run by the advocacy organization Neighborhood Villages. - Boston Globe

When state leaders announced that they would be making widespread pooled coronavirus testing available to public schools, many child care providers and after school program directors were frustrated that they were left out. | WBUR Edify

Early childhood education providers are furious after the state announced a new coronavirus testing program last week for public schools without including day-care centers and after-school programs, which are still struggling to serve more than 100,000 children almost a year into the pandemic. | Boston Globe

The Baker administration is planning to make more coronavirus testing available to K-12 schools across the state, as a way to identify more cases in students and staff, regardless of symptoms. | WBUR Edify

It didn’t seem possible that the U.S. child-care crisis could get much worse. Then came the pandemic, and parents were thrust into full-time caregiving roles for months on end. Beyond being stressful and exhausting, that reality has forced millions of parents, mostly mothers, to make tough decisions about how much to work, if at all. - Bloomberg Businessweek

Lauren Kennedy talks about broad inefficiencies with America's child care system, and what her nonprofit Neighborhood Villages is doing to support working mothers and families through the pandemic. -WGBH Boston Public Radio

We may be losing some of our best leaders to caregiving duties, and the pandemic is sending us backwards when it comes to gender equality. - Forbes

[T]he COVID economy is causing more women to opt out of the workforce due to a lack of childcare and ongoing school closures. - Forbes

We’ve long failed to fund the child care sector like the public good that it is. Now it’s on the brink of collapse. - The New York Times

Parents are expected to get back to work — and they want to — but how can they do it without the child care they rely on? Can an economy fully recover without robust child care? - WBUR

IN THE MIDST of the COVID-19 crisis, the United States stands at an inflection point; our policymakers hold in their hands the future of the American narrative. In this time of uncertainty, what will we prioritize when it comes to rebuilding our country’s infrastructure? - Commonwealth Magazine

Day care providers in Massachusetts, already ordered closed since March 23, could struggle to ever reopen unless they can get more aid, according to early childhood advocates. - WBUR Edify

Parents across the Commonwealth face a painful economic bind: their children are at home, but the child care check is still due. COVID-19 has (rightfully) forced the closure of child care centers across Massachusetts. In doing so, it has forced a profound reckoning about the state of the American child care system. - Boston Globe

Ellis, a Boston nonprofit that provides intervention and counseling services to children, disabled adults, elders, and families, today announced it has entered into a capacity-building partnership with another Boston nonprofit. The partnership with Neighborhood Villages, which promotes strong communities through delivery of quality, affordable child care and education, will fund two positions, an operations manager and a family support navigator, who will be hired by and work for Ellis.

Speaker Robert DeLeo stopped by the Social Centers to check out a new pilot program that is a collaboration between the Social Centers, Neighborhood Villages, Bunker Hill Community College and Urban College.