For Cecilia Zalkind the 'permanency that every child needed, deserved' was a driving force
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More than $80 million to increase reimbursement rates
(NJ Spotlight News)Report shows 19% of mothers with young children in NJ left the workforce for lack of quality child care
Gov. Phil Murphy has delayed closing child care centers until this week, concerned that it would leave essential workers without child care. A new executive ...
About 150 of New Jersey’s youngest came out in strollers with their moms during a rather festive rally in Trenton.
Every weekday morning, nearly 268,000 New Jersey students start their day with a free breakfast.
The Advocates for Children of New Jersey annual Newark Kids Count report shows that as of 2015, only 6.5 percent of Newark's kids were without ...
Draconian cuts in pay and benefits for police and firefighters have city fathers comparing the state to venomous snakes. Cutting the funding out from under ...
This year’s federal grant will allow 17 New Jersey school districts to continue their work and start up new pre-K programs, sending 2,000 4-year-olds through ...
Going cold turkey in public housing. We'll tell you the cost to health, the environment and the housing stock of kicking the smoking habit. Healing ...
In Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland counties, center-based care for a child under 18 months is around $10,000 a year, according to a 2013 report ...
A light at the end of the tunnel. That proposed new rail tunnel under the Hudson's on the fast track and in the pipeline for ...
Kids who are chronically absent, or missing 10 percent or more school days a year, often have the lowest test scores in math and reading. ...
A grim default deadline for Atlantic City. They can't pay back a huge state loan tomorrow because they won't dissolve the water authority to use ...
The latest Kids Count report found more New Jersey children are covered by health insurance and fewer are living in poverty. But almost a third ...
Did Gov. Christie know before the George Washington Bridge scandal that his office was improperly mixing politics and governance? Would legalizing pot generate enough money ...
Nearly 50 percent of Newark high schoolers missed 18 days or more of school. The district has formed an attendance committee made up of educators ...
Democratic leaders strike a double-deal to gradually hike the minimum wage to $15 an hour. First, by law. If Christie vetoes it, then by constitutional ...
Chronic absenteeism is defined as missing 10 percent or more school days. New Jersey has a 180-day school year, that means missing 28 days or ...
High stakes in Next Tuesday's election. On the Ballot: Funding worker's pensions and transportation, but polls show most people don't know who represents them in ...