Settlement agreement ensures child care assistance is more accessible to NM families

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Today, the New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department (ECECD) and several New Mexican parents and OLÉ—a non-profit, grassroots member organization of working families—announced that they have come to a settlement agreement that will expand access to the state’s child care assistance program and require it to be more responsive to parents’ needs. The parents and OLÉ are represented by the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP).