Earlier this morning, the Senate approved sweeping cuts to public media funding, threatening PBS Kids and with it, one of the few screen-time options built entirely around how children learn and grow.

For the past 30 years and with broad bipartisan support in Congress, the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has funded competitive Ready to Learn (RTL) grants, authorized under the Elementary and ...

Visitors to PBS Kids’ digital platforms find an explosion of options — games to learn about music, math, animals and space. They can play “Vacuum Hockey,” create a story or explore mazes. In total, ...

Near a cardboard cutout of Daniel Tiger, a small stuffed version of Curious George and plenty of promotional posters in the PBS Kids office, there sit thick stacks of graduation invitations. Most are ...

(The Hill) – Looming federal funding cuts for PBS put in jeopardy some of the most-used educational videos and games shown to help children improve in literacy and other social skills. The cuts, part ...

PBS has furloughed some of its staff weeks after the Trump administration began a push to defund the public broadcaster. A PBS spokesperson said in a statement to USA TODAY that 25% of PBS Kids ...

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On May 2, 2025, at the age of 30, the grant that funded much of PBS KIDS’ content—the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) (now defunct, too) and Public Broadcasting Service’s (PBS) Ready to ...