Consolidating sites. Cutting curriculum. Dropping pay. Hoosier child care providers are scrabbling for ways to stay open as Indiana’s freeze on low-income vouchers cramps enrollment and double-digit ...

Dani Svantner leads Westminster Preschools, the nonprofit that operates the Jay County Early Learning Center. She stands in the empty room for infants on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. PORTLAND, IND — The ...

A teacher at The Growing Garden Learning Center in Mooresville paints a student's hand on Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. When Jen Palmer opened a day care and preschool in Mooresville — a small, ...

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate has passed a bill that, if signed into law, would allow the State Budget Agency to dip into a $300 million fund to boost the Childcare Development Fund (CCDF) voucher ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Holly Maxwell owns Little Angels, an early childhood learning center in Lebanon, but two years from now, her business may not exist. "We are on a very tight budget, so anything that is ...

INDIANA – Indiana State Library and the Indiana Center for the Book are celebrating the 12th year of the Indiana Early Literacy Firefly Award ...

It was already strained. The child care system put in place since women first began joining the workforce was never going to be strong enough. The structure has become too overwhelmed as needs have ...

Hoosiers protest child care voucher cuts in front of the Indiana Statehouse, in Indianapolis, on Friday, Oct. 10, 2025. (Photo by Leslie Bonilla Muñiz/Indiana Capital Chronicle) Consolidating sites.