California Parents on Waitlist for Subsidized Childcare Anxious Over Proposed Budget Cuts ^30.4%

KQED - By Daisy Nguyen - 6/4/2026, 9:00 PM

Negativity Bias 28% - Anecdotal 26.6% - Appeal to Emotion 20.6%

Ever since her 1 ½-year-old son was born, Carmen Perez has been waiting for a subsidy to help with childcare. The Novato mom said she didn’t have to wait this long a couple of years ago when she needed to enroll her daughters in preschool. In 2021, California increased funding for subsidized childcare with the goal of paying for more... more

Community Child Care Centers on Shaky Ground After Transitional Kindergarten Expansion ^84.8%

KQED - By Ericka Cruz Guevarra, Daisy Nguyen, Jessica Kariisa, Pauline Bartolone - 5/15/2026, 10:00 AM

Post Hoc (False Cause) 63.4% - Framing Effect 42.6% - Loss Aversion 32.7%

Community-based preschools across the state have struggled to compete with California’s free, universal transitional-kindergarten program, where enrollment grew from nearly 117,000 students in the 2022-23 school year to 213,000 students this year. Now, hundreds of preschools have shuttered — worsening the shortage of licensed child care... more

Bay Area Nature Camp Wins Key Approval for New Home After Fighting ‘Bureaucracy and NIMBYism’ ^0%

KQED - By Daisy Nguyen - 4/17/2026, 11:49 PM

Optimism Bias 17.2% - Biased Writer Voice 11.9% - Negativity Bias 11.1%

Alameda County Supervisors have approved an outdoor education program’s plan to build a permanent campsite for Bay Area school children in the rolling hills of Castro Valley. For 25 years, the Mosaic Project has been bringing tens of thousands of fourth and fifth graders from different backgrounds together for a week of learning in... more

Rising Child Care Costs Force Parents to Choose: Career or Kids? ^0%

KQED - By Alan Montecillo, Daisy Nguyen, Jessica Kariisa, Francesca Fenzi - 4/13/2026, 10:00 AM

Appeal to Authority 26.2% - Anecdotal 26.2% - Attempt to Sell a Product or Service 26.2%

Rising child care prices leave many Bay Area parents with little choice but to turn down career opportunities, cut back hours, or even quit. As part of KQED’s new series on affordability, early childhood education reporter Daisy Nguyen introduces us to one mother who left her job as a teacher after the birth of her third child. <iframe... more

San Francisco Parents Scramble for Child Care Amid Teachers’ Strike ^0%

KQED - By Daisy Nguyen - 2/10/2026, 12:59 AM

Students make a sign that says, "Help Teachers" at Mission Science Workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood of San Francisco on Feb. 9, 2026, during an SFUSD teachers’ strike that closed all district schools. (Beth LaBerge/KQED) With some 50,000 San Francisco Unified School District students out of class on the first day of a teacher’s... more

How Are Child Care Costs Affecting the Lives of Bay Area Families? You Told Us ^23%

KQED - By Daisy Nguyen - 10/29/2025, 2:00 PM

Anecdotal 66.7% - Appeal to Emotion 17% - Negativity Bias 16%

Parents pay more for child care in the Bay Area than almost anywhere else in the country, according to the National Database on Childcare Prices. KQED recently published a story about how some Bay Area counties are addressing the crisis, and how others are looking into solutions. We also asked you how much you pay for child care and how... more