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A Conversation About Child Care and Your State’s Child Welfare System

June 5, 2020

In an informative presentation from national and state child care and child welfare experts, Alliance allies heard about the current trends in child care and state child welfare policy, including the importance of child care for birth and foster parents, the provisions of the Child Care and Development Block Grant that can be used to provide child care services for dependent children involved in child welfare systems, and innovative child care/child welfare partnerships in Florida.

Early Childhood Educators in America: Through the Lens of a Pandemic

April 15, 2020

EDITORIAL Alliance for Early Success Senior Policy Director Albert Wat weighs in on the high expectations we have of the Early Care and Learning workforce during this crisis — and how it is misaligned with the low regard we have shown the field in the past.

Alliance Meeting Elevates the Voice of Early Childhood Educators and Works Toward Policy Advances in 2020

January 19, 2020

In September, the Alliance for Early Success organized a national conference on the early childhood education profession. The meeting was an opportunity for 200+ state leaders, advocates, national experts, and early childhood educators to share promising strategies and lessons learned thus far, and to engage each other on the future.

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Governors Show Support for Young Children in their State-of-the-State Addresses and Budgets

May 29, 2019

The Alliance for Early Success believes that protecting or making progress in early childhood investments depends largely on state leadership. Governors have a lot of discretion over how to allocate, maximize or misuse resources. And their policies will either support or harm young children; and either help or prevent their families from becoming independent, successful and secure.

Preschool Development Grants Birth-Five: What’s in a Name?

March 19, 2019

Like its predecessor, the new Preschool Development Grants seek to support early childhood education, but the similarities don’t extend much beyond this general commonality. The first Preschool Development Grants were issued by the U.S. Department of Education in 2015 and 2016 to help states expand high-quality pre-kindergarten for four-year-olds from low-income famliies.

Reflections on the 2018 Partner Summit

February 28, 2019

Last month, dozens of Alliance for Early Success partners convened in Denver, Colorado, for the 2018 Partner Summit, where policy experts, thought leaders and child advocates spent three days sharing best practices and connecting with counterparts from other states over their experiences, challenges, and solutions to improve state policies for children, birth through age eight. Shannon Jones, Groundwork Ohio executive director, shares her reflections from the event.

We are fostering connections. We are providing insight and support. We are funding vital work. By bringing people together, investing in capacity, and catalyzing collective power, the Alliance for Early Success is making big, sustained impact possible.