The owner of an east Vancouver child care center joined Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Monday morning to draw attention to Washington’s rising health care costs.…
Posts published in “Early Childhood Education”
Ridgefield School District eager to ease overcrowding with third elementary school
By The Citizen on July 14, 2025
The Ridgefield School District broke ground in June on its third elementary school to help combat overcrowding. Read more… Source: The Columbian
Imagination Library gets one year reprieve as Washington’s public schools agency to fund literacy program
By The Citizen on July 2, 2025
The state schools superintendent announced last week his agency will fund a program that provides free books to young children locally and statewide for one…
Program offering free books for families at risk due to Washington’s budget deficit
By The Citizen on April 8, 2025
Free books about family togetherness, achieving goals, starting kindergarten and more are sent to young children locally and statewide every month — but the program…
Washougal schools plan to bring back Community Education Preschool but have to wait on Legislature
By The Citizen on March 25, 2025
The Washougal School District is tentatively planning to bring back its tuition-based Community Education Preschool program for the 2025-26 school year. Read more… Source: The…
Innovative Services NW receives more than $30,000 to help fund large projects on the horizon
By The Citizen on February 7, 2025
For the past 62 years, Innovative Services NW’s mission has stayed the same: ensuring vulnerable Clark County families have access to equal employment, education and…
Clark County could lose preschool slots because of state budget cuts
By The Citizen on December 2, 2024
More than 10 percent of Washington’s children are at risk of losing out on preschool services with state-proposed budget cuts — and Clark County early-education…
House funding bill to cut Washington child care services
By The Citizen on November 16, 2023
The U.S. House of Representatives is weighing a funding bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education that may cut key…