Tag: child care

Child care policy proposals return to Pierre

E-Edition Lifestyle January 23, 2025

by Jackie Hendry, SDPB For South Dakota News Watch BROOKINGS, S.D. – Nearly 40% of South Dakota's child care programs have fewer kids enrolled than they...

Are government subsidies the solution to the child care crisis?

Lifestyle January 25, 2024

By Jackie Hendry SDPB Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of stories on children that Jackie Hendry, producer and host of South Dakota...

Momentum grows for more state child care funding

Lifestyle October 19, 2023

Fix needed for underutilization of existing subsidies By Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight South Dakota doesn’t invest much state money in child care — unlike several...

Statewide high school course trains students to become child care workers

Civics July 13, 2023

Program helps address industry workforce shortage BY: MAKENZIE HUBER, South Dakota Searchlight There are 12,260 licensed child care slots in Sioux Falls, but 64% of...

Experts: Noem’s child care funding needed, but far from a solution to daycare crisis

Articles January 5, 2022

Bart Pfankuch South Dakota News Watch Gov. Kristi Noem wants to spend $100 million to boost child care offerings across the state, but experts say it...