Day Care

Some Charlotte child care providers plan to close next week as part of an annual initiative aimed at raising awareness about funding and staffing challenges at child care centers.

Charlotteans were among those who showed up at last week's rally at the state capitol. Organizers called it “a stark preview” of the potential future without affordable child care, underscoring the significant impact on North Carolina’s workforce and families.

Federal pandemic relief funds distributed more than $2 billion to 4,400 child care facilities across North Carolina. Schools used some of that money to pay teachers more, which helped to keep staff in schools. But that funding is going away at the end of this year, and if it's not backfilled in some way.

Two vigils were planned in Charlotte Sunday to remember victims of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris - one at mid-afternoon organized by leaders of the…

Almost 400 children in Cabarrus County may lose access to a day care program designed to help their parents keep working.The Cabarrus Child Care Subsidy…