With good data, policymakers can provide robust and high-quality services, staffed by a strong workforce, to the children and families who most need them.
When your state faces the possibility of losing funding for your entire early childhood education system, you must pull out all the stops to protect it. For Kansas Action for Children (KAC), that included accessing Rapid Response from the Alliance for Early Success. Our partners at the Committee for Economic Development, Council for a Strong America, Center for Michigan, and Arizona’s First Things First came to our aid in our moment of crisis. Read on to learn how.
An increasing number of states are investing in the well-being and success of young children by expanding mental health services in pediatric, home, and community settings, according to a recently updated report by the National Center for Children in Poverty.
Last week we took a closer look at what governors are saying, this week we turn to the legislators. The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) tracks the status of all bills each session.
The title of the talk was “Cultivating Racial Literacy.” The speaker was Dr. Howard Stevenson - the keynote at the 2016 Partner Summit of the Alliance for Early Success.
In June, Governor Brown signed the 2016-17 California state budget—and it’s a strong investment in young children and the adults who care for and educate them!
As the new Louisiana governor and Legislature sought to address severe budget deficits in a special legislative session in 2016, the long term sustainability of pre-k investments was anything but certain.
