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Alliance for Early Success Early Childhood State Policy Advocacy

Taking Intentional Steps to Prioritize Infants and Toddlers

December 21, 2018

Over the past 10 months, seven Alliance state partners embarked on a mission to increase public support for infants and toddlers by creating coalitions, identifying infant/toddler specific policy priorities, and developing advocacy strategies and communication plans. Each state approached its efforts in a slightly different way, but with the same goal in mind: to advance the well-being and school readiness of infants and toddlers in their state.

The “Kid Wave” of 2018

November 14, 2018

In a year of bipartisan rancor, early childhood emerged as a rare issue of consensus. Providing confirmation to a decade of polling finding broad support for early childhood, candidates of both parties eagerly embraced agendas focused on young children. According to an analysis conduct by the First Five Years Fund, over 75 percent of governors elected in 2018 are on the record supporting early childhood education.

3 Practices and 3 Policies Indispensable for Quality Pre-K: A New Resource for Politicians and Policymakers

October 18, 2018

In 2016 and 2017, more than 30 individuals from top-level research organizations, early learning programs, and advocacy organizations came together at New America to distill years of research on what it takes to provide a quality pre-K experience for 3- and 5-year-old children. The results are in.

WILD PATIENCE AND BIG RESULTS

October 2, 2018

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Happy New Year! Happy New Grant Year, that is.

Building the Foundation for a Bright Future: DC passes Birth-to-Three for All

August 28, 2018

In June 2018, the Council of the District of Columbia committed to helping DC’s youngest children thrive by unanimously passing the Birth-to-Three for All DC bill (B-3 DC).

How to Spend $2.37 Billion

March 23, 2018

At the dawn of the single largest funding increase in the history of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), here are five ways states can spend the funds to further the dual purposes of child care as both a work support and a child development support.