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A note from the Wonderschool founder and CEO regarding questions on child to staff ratios.

In rural Michigan, Sarah Allen faced limited child care options. With Wonderschool's guidance, she transformed her career, creating a thriving home-based child care program that serves 15 families in her community.

In-home child care is an efficient way to meet demand in counties large and small, learn five key steps county leaders can take to bring more care to more children today.

Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies are essential in connecting families to quality child care and supporting providers. However, balancing these responsibilities can be challenging. Wonderschool provides CCR&Rs with a technology platform that simplifies administrative tasks, enhances communication, and enables data-driven insights. In Pennsylvania’s Region 1, Wonderschool’s partnership with NWIR ELRC has empowered 30 new and existing providers and created real-time engagement between parents and providers. Read on to see how Cheryl Moss, a program director, transformed her child care program with Wonderschool’s tools.

Child care is not just a service—it’s the backbone of working families and the bedrock of our children’s future. Yet, the relentless rise in costs has pushed this essential resource out of reach for many. Calls to lower tuition are growing louder, but beneath these demands lies a complex web of financial realities that can’t be ignored. The solution isn’t as simple as slashing prices. In this incisive piece, Chris Bennett, CEO of Wonderschool, confronts the urgent truth: to preserve both affordability and quality in child care, we must first grapple with the true cost of sustaining these vital programs.

Mississippi faced a critical need for more child care options, and through a strategic partnership with Wonderschool, the state successfully created 3,000 new child care slots. This case study delves into the transformative impact of this collaboration, highlighting how technology-driven solutions can help states meet growing demands for early education. Discover the steps taken, the results achieved, and the lessons learned that could benefit other states facing similar challenges.

There's a wave of new solutions coming to help replenish child care deserts nationwide. Learn about the 7 new ideas that can help more families find child care in your city, county, state, or workplace.

Explore how technology-based child care solutions can address the challenges of finding affordable, high-quality care. Learn the benefits for families, providers, and government agencies, and get steps to implement these solutions in your community.

Learn how the Mississippi Department of Human Services (MDHS) and Wonderschool partnered to tackle severe staffing shortages in child care centers. Through the innovative Wonderschool Substitute Teaching Platform, this collaboration has significantly improved operational stability and enhanced the quality of early childhood education in Mississippi. Discover the successful implementation, impressive results, and real-life testimonials that showcase the impact of this strategic initiative.

Read more how Wonderschool can help launch child care programs for employers and meet the needs of employees.

Applying for CHIPS Act funding? Curious about revolutionizing your semiconductor workforce support? Dive into Wonderschool's In-Home Program Creation Solution – the answer to cost-efficient, scalable, and community-centric child care. Ready to redefine your approach?

Explore how Wonderschool's innovative solutions effortlessly align with proposed CCDF regulation changes, providing practical avenues to address the child care crisis in the United States.

Join us as we explore how home-based program creation can play a critical role in the success of the Child Care Chips Act.

Read about the connection between lost revenue and childcare, how it effects individuals, and how that impact magnifies into the broader economy.

Texas is known for its booming economy, but lack of childcare still costs the state over $9 billion per year. Opening affordable family childcares could fix that.

Trickle Up Economics, and child care benefits go hand in hand. Learn about employer-led child care benefits' past, present, and future and how they can affect families, companies, and economies.

The Fuzzy Slipper is a child care program in New Mexico that utilizes Wonderschool's software and provider platform for operations and backend management.

Case study on how E.C.E. entrepreneurs can attend Wonderschool Academy to get all the tools and training they need to start a successful, quality in-home preschool.

Wonderschool partnered with North Carolina Smart Start to help child care directors of centers and family child cares stabilize and grow their businesses.

Learn about how your network can use our modular child care solutions to change the child care landscape in your community.

Chris Bennett, CEO of Wonderschool, joins Mayor Eric Adam's Economic Transition Team.

Read about new funding potential for early childhood care and education over the past 18 months at the federal, state, and local levels.

Find out how Maryland Family Network is investing in the infrastructure of high-quality care. Team up with Wonderschool to improve child care in your community.

Wonderschool's CEO joins U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar and Tami Forman to discuss increasing child care access. Partner with Wonderschool to support your network and state.

Read about how to stabilize and support child care providers long-term to strengthen our community and economy.

Home-based preschools offer low ratios and many learning opportunities. Once considered a lesser option, these programs are becoming a boutique form of child care and early childhood education. Find a home-based preschool at Wonderschool.

Discover how Wonderschool's groundbreaking marketplace is making another large step in the child care search experience with AI.