EDITORIAL Alliance for Early Success Senior Policy Director Karen Howard reflects on the late Rep. John Lewis and how 1965’s “Bloody Sunday” should inspire us to pursue antiracist policies in early childhood advocacy.
Led by Alliance staff, speakers from the Center of Budget and Policy Priorities, the Education and Civil Rights Alliance, and the National Black Child Development Institute, this call demonstrated how advocates can center equity in early childhood advocacy.
After leading the Alliance for Early Success through more than a decade of strategic growth, Executive Director Lisa Klein is stepping down. The organization’s board has announced that Deputy Director Helene Stebbins will step into the role on September 1, 2020.
Open Strong was developed by state early childhood advocates and the Alliance for Early Success to assist state advocates in raising key issues and questions, to provoke conversations and solutions that are particular to operating child care programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
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.
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