More than 5,000 child care providers received a check in the mail from DSS at the end of May -- money that had to be spent or the state would owe the federal government $13.7 million.

The CT Early Childhood Alliance honored 57 legislators as Children's Champions on May 26.

Gloria Hayes has been the director of Good Shepherd Child Development Center and East Shore Child Development Center for more than three decades. 

Democrat Dan Malloy, Republican Oz Griebel and Independent Tom Marsh met on May 10 at Manchester Community College for the Prospering Communities, Thriving Families Forum.

Two bills, both with provisions concerning the child care subsidy Care4Kids, passed in the waning hours of the 2010 legislative session. They now await the governor's signature.

Children's Defense Fund president and founder Marian Wright Edelman spoke recently in Hartford. She says that this nation needs to begin changing its priorities, and it needs to invest in its children in both the good and bad times.

Damp weather couldn't keep people from turning out at the Children First Norwich/School Readiness Council's annual touch-a-truck event.

Week-long events puncuated the Week of the Young Child in New Haven.

Taking the CT theme to heart for the Week of the Young Child, children at the Lab School at Housatonic Community College grabbed kites and headed outdoors to SOAR with quality early education.

An annual tradition, Torrington Child Care Center hosted an art show, showcasing the work of the children from the past year, and invited family, friends, town and state officials to visit (the children served as tour guides!)