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.
The Utah Full-Day Kindergarten Now! Coalition of more than 50 organizations is joining with Utah families to celebrate the passage of a full-day kindergarten option across the state. A bill passed by the legislature and signed by the governor provides greater access to optional full-day kindergarten in Utah by funding the program the same way grades 1 through 12 are funded.
Alliance allies at the Louisiana Policy Institute for Children (LPIC) mounted a successful campaign to protect social-emotional learning (SEL) standards in early education and K-12 schools after the Louisiana’s state school board proposed to remove them from the state’s early learning development standards.
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.
In 2020, early childhood advocates from The Prichard Committee in Kentucky formed a task force on education preparation and professional learning. The task force released policy recommendations, which have already resulted in new proposed legislation to advance educator preparation and support early literacy instruction.
Missouri’s governor has announced the formation of the Office of Childhood, and advocates around the state celebrated the move as a monumental step towards creating a comprehensive vision and program alignment of Missouri’s early childhood system.
Years of work by early childhood advocates in Delaware continue to pay off in important structural changes in the way state agencies serve young children — including the recent creation of a new associate secretary position to oversee the Office of Early Learning.
Alliance Senior Policy Director Albert Wat has been selected as one of 13 experts named to a committee convened by the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine, to study “the causes and consequences of the opportunity gap for young children from birth to age eight.”
Allies in Utah won $5 million in additional funding for full-day kindergarten in the state, only to have it threatened by budget cuts in a special session. Advocates won the fight to preserve the funding, helping districts meet the growing demand for full day kindergarten in Utah.
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