In recent years, a number of states have moved to consolidate disparately administered early childhood programs into a single agency to improve coordination of services and reduce administrative ...

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Jennifer Nicholls is the owner, lead teacher “and cook, nurse and entertainment,” she joked, at Journey Preschool, a home-based early childhood education program that cares for a dozen children.

Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much these days. But there is one thing on which they do see eye to eye: the value of early childhood education. Once an afterthought of America’s education ...