WASHINGTON (AP) – Parents with children in day care often assume workers have cleared background checks and the facility has passed unannounced inspections, but a review to be released Tuesday finds a ...

Doubts swirled from the start. After Cynthia King’s baby Wiley Muir died suddenly at a home-based day care in Honolulu, she fixated on the things that seemed off. The medical examiner said he died of ...

Both chambers of the Statehouse passed measures Tuesday designed to increase access to child care by reducing existing regulations. But while the Senate passed its bill – a priority for the Republican ...

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Rules passed a decade ago required states to begin reporting how many children die, are injured or abused in child care. As some states fall short, parents who’ve lost children say it’s proof the ...