In the News
Groups push for child-care subsidies, welfare reform
January 19, 2003
Glenda Sandoval, a preschool teacher in Santa Fe, has watched many children from poor families be denied child care because parents didn’t quite meet state guidelines to receive assistance. New Mexico Voices For Children advocates a return to the department’s original policy of providing assistance to families who earn up to 200 percent of poverty…
Packing more into preschool
January 19, 2003
More preschools are bringing music, dance and foreign language instruction into the preschool day
County might pull Head Start funds
January 18, 2003
Shelby County Head Start Inc., the largest local provider for the federal Head Start program, is in danger of county government cutting some or all its $12 million in funding if it does not swiftly comply with guidelines.
U.S. to Review Head Start Program; Bush Plan to Assess 4-Year-Olds’ Progress
January 17, 2003 Assessment • Governance and Accountability • State & Local
The Washington Post reports the Bush administration announced yesterday its plan to implement an annual assessment of the 908,000 4-year-olds in Head Start programs across the nation, an effort that will help determine how much the children are learning in the government-funded preschool program. Federal officials said the new reporting system would provide standardized data…
Op-Ed: A Sound Investment in Early Education
January 15, 2003 Economics and Finance
Economic analysis tells us that early childhood education is a sound investment of limited resources. Until every child shows up on that first day of school properly prepared to learn, Massachusetts will fall short of its education and economic goals.
Head restart: Research suggests Head Start programs help children
January 10, 2003
Research suggests that well-run Head Start programs help children from low-income families to prepare for kindergarten. For years, however, those benefits have eluded thousands of children in the city who qualify for the free services but are not enrolled.
Familiar names on preschool panel
January 10, 2003
Child advocate Nancy Daly Riordan and former Assembly Speaker Robert M. Hertzberg were named Thursday to co-chair an advisory committee that will help decide how to spend $100 million in Los Angeles County to ensure quality preschool for children. First 5 LA, formerly known as the Los Angeles County Children and Families First-Proposition 10 Commission,…