With over 30 years of teaching experience, Amy Upton prides herself on setting the bar for high-quality early education and childcare. As the executive director of East Side Learning Center in Concord, which operates both early childhood and school-age childcare, quality care is important to her and her business.  So when the state unveiled its […]

Last month, New Hampshire Executive Councilors John Stephen and Joe Kenney published a column in NH Journal explaining their decision to vote down a childcare quality contract in favor of funding the childcare workforce grant. Since then, as new information has clarified the state’s inability to fund the workforce grant, they both said they stand […]