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• Day Care Enrollments Plummet as Families Struggle to Pay the Bills

  New Horizons daycare center just outside of Chicago has seen its enrollment cut by 50 percent in the last three months. And a San Gabriel, California daycare saw its enrollment go from 51 kids last year to 15 this year. As the economy goes from scary to terrifying, parents around the country are being forced to cut back on childcare or pull their kids out of daycare altogether, relying instead on extended family or drastic changes to their own work lives. Read More... Posted Nov 08 2008, 06:13 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, childcare, expensive, childcare costs, economy, enrollment, day care, extended family, middle class families, aid, low income families, making ends meet, decrease in daycare enrollment, dangerous situations, new horizons, cutting back on childcare, working nights, day care costs

• Would You Camp Out To Get Your Kid in a Good Preschool?

  In Houston, some parents have been sleeping in tents and in their trucks since Friday, saving a place in line to enroll their children and grandchildren in the Houston Junior Forum Community House Preschool. There are 39 slots available for entering children, and these parents--many of them alum of the school themselves--are determined to secure places for their kids in the first-come, first-served registration process. One former grad, who also sent her daughter to the school, recently took camping shifts in line to help her nephew get a spot. She said, "Making a sacrifice like this for your child, with this weather, there's nothing you won't do for your kids." What makes this school so special?... Read More... Posted Jan 21 2008, 01:08 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: preschool, education, camping, Houston, sacrifice, enrollment, opportunity, hispanic, english as a second language, best schools