New Hampshire community colleges work to grow early care and education workforce

New Hampshire community colleges work to grow early care and education workforce

Students walk on campus at New Hampshire Technical Institute in Concord. NHTI is one of two New Hampshire community colleges that have a national accredited early childhood education program. (Photo by Maya Mitchell/New Hampshire Bulletin)New Hampshire has a child care workforce shortage, and it is looking to its community colleges to address one part of that issue: the development pipeline. For Diana Menard, the department chair of education an…