Vermont’s Child Care Campaign sets next priorities

BURLINGTON -- Vermont’s Child Care Campaign kicked off its next phase last week at Growing Vermont: A Conversation on the Future of Child Care, a town hall event at Hula Lakeside featuring national and local policy experts. The event marked two years since the passage of Act 76, Vermont’s child care law, as well as the wind-down of Let’s Grow Kids (LGK), the advocacy organization launched in 2015 as a 10-year campaign to transform Vermont’s child care system.

Let’s Grow Kids will officially cease operations as an organization at the end of this year. Moving forward, Vermont’s Child Care Campaign will be led by child care partners: The Vermont Association for the Education of Young Children (VTAEYC), Building Bright Futures (BBF), First Children’s Finance–Vermont (FCF-VT), and the Let’s Gr