childcare

Annie's Place experienced "insurmountable" challenges, including financial hardship, according to the nonprofit's CEO. Parkland Health says it will look for a new group to offer services.

Dallas County commissioners and the Dallas city council agreed to allow the state’s new child care facility tax exemption.

More than a third of Head Start locations in Texas aren't near any public transit, leaving many low-income Texas families struggling to get to needed child care services.

Child care center owners and business leaders are urging budget writers at the state Capitol to consider spending more than $2 billion for early education and childcare services. If not, they’ll continue to lose employees to industries that are able to pay higher wages.

Texas allows religious groups that are part of the state’s child welfare network to refuse to assist LGBTQ couples seeking to foster or adopt. That could put critical federal funding at risk.

With a state legislative session looming, the Texas Women’s Foundation has identified nearly two dozen policy changes that can help make the lives of women and girls better.

The executive order calls on the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services to increase access to gender-affirming health care and develop ways to counter state efforts aimed at limiting such treatments for transgender minors.

The federal emergency declaration is expected to last through at least mid-October and has kept states from dropping people from Medicaid rolls.

The state’s poorest mothers are paying hundreds of dollars out of pocket when they find baby formula because they say they can’t risk waiting for the exact brand and size container covered by Texas’ Women, Infant and Children program.

The average out-of-stock rate for baby formula at retailers across the country was 43% during the first week of May, according to the firm Datasembly.

The court-appointed watchdogs expressed concern after learning that a caretaker accused of exploiting children at a state-licensed facility in Bastrop had been previously fired from a state juvenile justice facility for misconduct.

Other investigators don’t want to follow an order they believe harms families but worry about the impact of a mass employee exodus on the state’s most vulnerable children.