The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care has taken another step toward aligning grant programs with the Quality Rating and Improvement System by voting unanimously to align Inclusive Preschool Learning Environment grants with QRIS in fiscal year 2013. All grantees would be required to have enrolled in QRIS and to be at Level 2 [...]
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At the May EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early Learning Challenge, QRIS on May 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
MA Early Educator Scholarship Applications Available
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early educators on April 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
As research demonstrates, the quality of teaching is a critical ingredient of the quality of early education and care programs. Research also indicates that children benefit from early educators with bachelor’s degrees and specialized training. Acting on this evidence, in 2005 Massachusetts established the Early Childhood Educators Scholarship, which has awarded more than 5,000 grants [...]
Brain Building in Progress Week is Here
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Family engagement on April 24, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Brain Building in Progress Week is underway! Across Massachusetts early education and care programs and others are celebrating the national Week of the Young Child by highlighting the critical role that high-quality early learning settings play in the healthy development of young children’s brains. See the video above for a message from Commissioner Sherri Killins [...]
At the April EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Assessments, Dept. of Early Education and Care, QRIS on April 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care voted at its April meeting to revise child care subsidy regulations, effective July 1. Roughly 56,000 children currently receive state financial assistance for early education and care. The vote came a year after the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) released proposed amendments for public comment. [...]
MA House Ways and Means Committee Releases FY13 Budget Proposal
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early educators, Full-day kindergarten, MA Legislature, MA state budget on April 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Wednesday, April 11, the Massachusetts House Ways and Means (HWM) Committee released its recommendations for $32.3 billion in state appropriations for the fiscal year 2013 (FY13) budget. The proposal, which addresses a projected $1.3 billion budget gap, does not call for any new taxes or fees, and makes use of one-time revenue sources such [...]
At the March EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care on March 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care held its March meeting at Westfield State University after touring Square One’s early education center on King Street in Springfield. Amy O’Leary, director of our Early Education for All Campaign, and Emily Levine, our research and policy analyst, were there. One highlight of the morning, EEC Chairman [...]
Massachusetts Defines High-Needs Children
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early Learning Challenge on March 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
When she describes Massachusetts’ successful application for a federal Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge grant, Commissioner Sherri Killins of the Department of Early Education and Care often talks of identifying – and serving – all of the commonwealth’s young children with high needs. Who, precisely, are high-needs children? The Massachusetts Early Learning Plan [...]
“Creating a Culture of Quality” for Early Education
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, Early educators, Early Learning Challenge, Head Start, NAEYC, Professional development & preparation, QRIS on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
My colleague Amy O’Leary, director of our Early Education for All Campaign, tells a story that illustrates how far the field of early education and care has come over the past several years. Amy has been going to meetings of the Boston Alliance for Early Education since she was a preschool director in Boston’s South [...]
At the February EEC Board Meeting
Posted in Assessments, Dept. of Early Education and Care, Family engagement on February 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Massachusetts Board of Early Education and Care last week unanimously approved a measure to align the Massachusetts Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) grant program with the Quality Rating and Improvement System (QRIS) that the commonwealth launched in January 2011. (See UPK-QRIS PowerPoint.) The board also approved the annual report to the Legislature from the Department of [...]
MA Governor Releases FY13 Budget Proposal
Posted in Dept. of Early Education and Care, MA governor, MA state budget on January 26, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick released a $32.3 billion budget recommendation for fiscal year 2013 that includes $260 million in new revenues generated, in part, by taxing the sale of candy and soda, raising the cigarette tax, and expanding the bottle bill. While the governor’s budget level funds many items related to early education and [...]
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