Why are there limited benefits when parents retain their children in kindergarten?
It's called “redshirting” or “the gift of time,” but the practice of holding a kindergartener back for a year offers…
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Letters to the editor: Wealth transfer happens every day, but it is from the poor to the rich
November 15, 2025 7 a.m. Pacific Time to the editor: Although contributing writer Veronique de Rugy offers multiple observations to…
Letters to the editor: No, Zohran Mamdani's platform is not a fantasy of “far-left utopianism”
November 4, 2025 8 a.m. Pacific Time to the editor: Writer Josh Hammer warns of the “serious consequences” if Zohran…
Republicans should be more concerned about their fiscal policies
To the editor: Unfortunately, for the collaborating writer Josh Hammer and his conservative fellow fellow people who are convinced that…
Collaborator: Children in the camp? No. Do you have a summer schedule? No. Cue the mother's fault
“How is your summer?” A mother asked from the other side of the living room in a baby shower in…
Trump's attacks in Head Start antithetics to the 'pro-family' rhetoric
To the editor: It is amazing that an administration that claims to be so pro-family, pro-children and pro-fertility would even…
ACLU demand to stop Trump's attacks in Head Start Child-Care Program
The American Union of Civil Liberties, on behalf of six early childhood organizations, including one in California, sued the Trump…
Head Start programs cannot access subsidies after freezing Trump's financing
Dozens of Head Start programs throughout the country, including at least six in California, have experienced delays in government money…
Opinion: America needs to retake Econ 101
If we are going to vote based on cost-of-living concerns, we need to know what levers the government can pull…
Donald Trump's revealing word salad on child care
In the United States, most parents of young children work, most need help caring for their children, and most cannot…