Child Care Nightmare

It's ridiculous, Susan Baker says, that her friend's 17-year-old son earns as much managing a pizza shop as she does managing a child care center. "Most people who come to do this...

Greg Knudtson received a frantic call from his wife, Tomoko: “Emergency, emergency. Jenna quit breathing.”

When it came to a string of violations at the Southwest Washington Child Care Consortium's Evergreen Center in Vancouver, it was the consortium - not the state - that ultimately took decisive...

Michele Frank did more research than many parents before choosing child care for her daughter, Jaclyn.

Jone Bosworth had her work cut out when Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire hired her as the first director of the Department of Early Learning in 2006.

Washington's effort to reform child care begins with a quality rating system.

The state's history of inconsistent enforcement of child care regulations - which was exposed by a Columbian investigation of licensed facilities in Clark County - is disappointing but not...

Gov. Chris Gregoire is asking the Legislature for $435,000 to add five employees to the Department of Early Learning who will be charged with improving enforcement of child care regulations.

The Columbian's series exposing lapses in the regulation of licensed child care operations won a national award for investigative reporting from the Society of Professional...