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Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist visited a Grand Rapids childcare center today to highlight Governor Whitmer’s budget proposals that would expand childcare and provide free pre-K education for families

The Ready by Five millage is scheduled to expire this year. Thursday, after requests for a millage increase, county commissioners voted to put it on the ballot at the current property tax rate.

A new study suggests a unifying wage scale for early childhood educators could be an answer to the childcare crisis facing working parents and employers.

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Governor Gretchen Whitmer will present her budget proposal Wednesday for the coming fiscal year. The governor says it will include a focus on services for families and children

Michigan State University Extension’s new Growing Healthy Eaters program — funded by an Allen Foundation grant — aims to help these providers serve healthy foods while teaching kids about community agriculture and gardening.

Nearly five years after its introduction in 2017, a Kent County is program designed to improve foster care outcomes will move from a pilot program to a contracted services with the state

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is proposing a $67 billion budget that she says would aid the state's pandemic recovery by solidifying new programs to…