The Alliance for Early Success joins our neighbors across the country in the commemoration of Juneteenth, the century-old-at-least holiday celebrating the real end of American enslavement – the day, two years after emancipation, that the last enslaved Americans learned of their freedom.
The Alliance for Early Success is changing the way it invests in state advocacy organizations by moving to core operating support grants, maximizing the flexibility of the funds to further the grantee’s birth-through-eight policy-advocacy work. State applicants will no longer submit grant budgets or a list of project deliverables.
In April, the Alliance convened a peer learning group led by advocates who have been successful in building and leveraging local champions to shift priorities in states without strong track records in supporting young children and their families.
This May, which is nationally recognized as Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we lift up the story of two parents whose 19th-century advocacy for their own children opened the schoolhouse doors for countless more.
We stand with the child-care providers and parents who are leading today’s #DayWithoutChildCare campaign, because it’s clear that equity in early care and education is essential to equitable opportunity in every community across the country.
As the pandemic wears on, and the ECE workforce challenges continue, we’re seeing more attempts by state policymakers to relax standards and regulations around group size and adult-child ratios in child care programs. While past efforts have been motivated at least in part by anti-regulation and small-government rationales, these recent
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