Dylan Peers McCoy
Investigative Education ReporterDylan Peers McCoy is an investigative education reporter at WFYI. Prior to working at WFYI, Dylan covered K-12 education for five years at Chalkbeat Indiana.
Dylan also worked at APM Reports on education-related documentaries, and she studied documentary radio at Transom Story Workshop. When she's not reporting, she spends her time eating, crafting and reading.
Contact Dylan at dmccoy@wfyi.org
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Indiana businesses can get up to $100,000 in tax credits to help pay for workers' childcare under a new law that marks one of Republican leaders' first responses to a spiraling childcare crisis. -
Here's your voter guide for Indiana's 2nd Congressional District. The primary election is May 5. -
Indiana will pay for day care and preschool for about 14,000 out of the 35,000 children still on a state waitlist for vouchers, after the State Budget Committee approved Gov. Mike Braun's request for additional money. -
Gov. Mike Braun's $200 million plan would reopen Indiana's frozen child care voucher program to about 14,000 low-income children. -
Rental prices in Indianapolis have jumped over the past five years, leaving many Indianapolis families struggling to afford housing. -
Communities across Indiana are struggling to solve one of the state's largest challenges: How to help families get access to high-quality day care and preschool. -
The bill’s author, Rep. Ben Smaltz (R-Auburn), insisted race was not considered and the goal was to reduce the power of Democratic voters. -
Over the last year, Indiana stopped giving new child care vouchers, slashed the number of spots in the state preschool program and cut how much it pays for care. -
WFYI’s Dylan Peers McCoy sat down with Sam Snideman, vice president of government relations for the United Way of Central Indiana, to talk about how inadequate child care affects families, businesses and communities. -
The state stopped issuing new vouchers last December, and nearly 31,000 children were on the waitlist as of September.
