Child Care NEXT States Trade Strategies for Building Shared and Collective Power
February 28, 2022
Every two months, the Child Care NEXT state teams come together for a peer learning session on critical issues that
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.
Every two months, the Child Care NEXT state teams come together for a peer learning session on critical issues that
In 1929 ,Dorothy Howard founded the Garden of Children, the first nursery school in the District of Columbia, and one of the earliest in the country, for Black children.For black history month, early education takes the spotlight.
The Under 3 DC celebrates advocacy wins that led to $75 million that DC will use to begin to publicly fund increases in early childhood educators’ compensation. These efforts will begin movement towards a more equitable funding structure for ECE.
WEBINAR The Alliance is joined by Jonathan Metzl, author of the best-selling Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland. He has done extensive research on voters who oppose health policies that would benefit them, and his presentation to early childhood advocates encourages them to understand “zero-sum” solution perceptions.
Elevating parent voices is a powerful form of advocacy. As allies have knowledge of the policy process, parents have lived experiences and insight on what is wrong and can be improved. Allies gathered to learn from peers how states are working to include parents in their policy development and advocacy strategy.
The Alliance for Early Success has launched a new opportunity for state advocacy organizations: a learning and leadership program called Operationalizing Equity. The offering is a six-month collective experience for Alliance state grantees that will help them operationalize strategies to center racial justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in their work.
Policy and data leaders from the diversitydatakids.org project show us how to use the down-to-the-neighborhood data in their new Child Opportunity Index 2.0 — and dive into strategies for making this kind of data part of effective advocacy and mobilization for equity.
Early childhood advocates from across the country — representing a diversity of states — have come together to recommend nine consensus principles for investing in early care and education. These principles were developed to guide leaders at every level as they determine whether and how to invest new funding in the child care system.
As the Alliance for Early Success joins others in marking the day when justice was deferred no longer, the organization is reaffirming its commitment to continuing to name the racism that is entrenched in our country’s systems – both in our policies and in the comfortable habits that perpetuate inequity.
In the fall of 2020 the Illinois Legislative Black Caucus held a series of hearings to develop its agenda, and because of long-standing relationships built on trust and respect, advocates were invited to highlight early childhood issues and to make recommendations to be included in the package. Working together, they helped win a new package of education and health care reforms.
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