Another facility can't seem to fill up. A third was a little nervous if the funding would ever come and had plans if it didn't. Welcome to the world of child care and preschool in southeast Iowa.

There were $20.2 billion in child support payments made in cash in 2021 (the latest data available by the U.S. Census Bureau). The average cash amount for child support per month was $441.

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INWOOD, IA (KELO) — A northwest Iowa child care provider is accused of assaulting five different children in just an hour and 15 minutes. Court documents say the victims were all 2-year-olds ...

Michael Chen, Greater Iowa City’s community development program manager, is leading the effort to extend ways to support the local child care workforce. Part of Chen’s work is speaking with child care ...

Iowa Child Care Connect was created using $5.2 million in federal pandemic assistance funding, and will require $500,000 of annual maintenance, a state official said.

Read the proposed rules Child Labor Rule Change by connerhendricks3 on Scribd -- Conner Hendricks covers state government and politics for Gray Media-owned stations in Iowa.

Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is calling for a constitutional amendment to ensure that child victims of crime do not have to testify inside a courtroom alongside their alleged abusers.

A pilot program increased child care capacity without raising prices for families, according to a report by the Iowa Women’s Foundation and the Common Sense Institute.

Iowa State University's early childhood school has reached its centennial milestone, continuing its leadership in early childcare and education. The Child Development Laboratory School turned 100 in ...

The state’s new child care website, which Reynolds paid for using some of the state’s share of federal pandemic aid, includes information from 3.495 providers with 2,400 reporting that they ...

The state’s new website is called Iowa Child Care Connect and can be found at childcareconnect.iowa.gov. “This is an online tool that’s going to fundamentally change how Iowa's working ...