The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
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The Child Care for Oregon coalition has implemented a new process that sets its policy agenda by first asking parents and practitioners to name the barriers they face and describe the future they envision for child care in Oregon.
The Alliance for Early Success (the Alliance) announced has that Shannon Jones has joined the early childhood organization’s Board of Directors. In addition to her staff experience in the U.S. House and Senate, Jones has spent more than 20 years shaping state policy to better serve communities and families.
Connecticut’s Early Childhood Education Endowment, seeded with an initial $300 million investment, marks the culmination of years of work by early education advocates fighting for sustainable, long-term funding.
Advocates in the state’s Growing Our Future coalition have won their fight for the Family Affordability Tax Credit, which will put more money into the hands of families and help cut the child poverty rate in Colorado in half.
After years of advocacy, Zero to Five Montana—along with other advocates, parents, and providers—has succeeded in passing a new early childhood endowment: the new Early Childhood Special Revenue Account.
A new law in Arkansas makes early educators eligible to participate in the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, a defined benefit retirement plan established for public school and other public education employees in the state. The new law means that any early educator who is licensed by the state and receives state or federal child care funding is eligible to save for retirement through the system.
BMMA, Inc. (Black Mamas Matter Alliance) shares how they apply the core frameworks of Birth Justice, Birth Equity, Reproductive Justice, and Human Rights to shape policy solutions that advance Black Maternal Health (BMH) and Early Childhood (EC) Health outcomes.
FIELD NOTES | By Helene Stebbins | As state policymakers work to address the huge budget shortfalls created by the federal government’s enactment of H.R. 1, state early childhood policy advocates are the next line of defense. And they need big investments in capacity to get the job done.
Inspired by the Alliance’s “Alabama Experience” for grantees in 2024, New Jersey advocates brought members of the New Jersey Legislative Black Caucus on a similar pilgrimage to Alabama, in order to deepen relationships and advance equity-centered policy.
