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Ready to Go: Pittsfield

Posted in Achievement gap, Federal, Funding, Guest Blog, MA governor, MA Legislature, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, Pre-K to 3, Science & math, Strategies for Children on December 7, 2017| Leave a Comment »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool.   In Pittsfield, we know how important early education is. Children who don’t get a strong start can’t read proficiently by third grade. In our city, 2017 MCAS data shows that only 44 percent of third graders are proficient in English and only 44 […]

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Ready to Go: Lawrence

Posted in Developmentally appropriate practice, Family engagement, Funding, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, Pre-kindergarten on June 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool. Lawrence is one of five Massachusetts communities implementing the federal Preschool Expansion Grant. This high-quality model funds 10 preschool classrooms for 130 of Lawrence’s children. The community also has a three-year strategic plan for further preschool expansion. Beyond serving more children, the plan includes […]

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Ready to Go: Holyoke

Posted in Curriculum, Family engagement, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, Pre-kindergarten, tagged on May 26, 2017| 1 Comment »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool. Holyoke is one of five Massachusetts communities implementing the federal Preschool Expansion Grant. This high-quality model funds four preschool classrooms for 76 of Holyoke’s children. The city also has an ambitious preschool expansion plan: Holyoke wants to have a universal Pre-K program that would serve […]

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Ready to Go: Worcester

Posted in Early educators, Funding, Health, Pre-kindergarten on April 7, 2017| 1 Comment »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool. Worcester holds the triple distinction of being the second largest city in New England, a leading Gateway City, and the leading refugee resettlement community, welcoming 300-500 new families each year. All these factors drive this unique, richly diverse city. Worcester also faces challenges. Each […]

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Ready to Go: Somerville

Posted in Curriculum, Early educators, Funding, MA state budget, Pre-kindergarten on March 3, 2017| 2 Comments »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool. Somerville serves only about 45 percent of the 4-year-olds who could potentially enroll in preschool. Our Preschool Expansion Strategic Planning Grant inspired us to develop a three-year plan that builds upon existing partnerships and adds 108 additional seats in a mixed-delivery system. To do this […]

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Ready to Go: New Bedford

Posted in Funding, Pre-kindergarten on February 10, 2017| 2 Comments »

A series featuring communities that have a plan to expand preschool. There are 7,805 children under age 6 living in New Bedford. A young child raised in our city is more than twice as likely to live below the poverty line as an average Massachusetts child (38 percent versus 17 percent). If it were funded, […]

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce is “Ready, Set, Go!” for High-Quality Early Education

Posted in Business and economy on October 14, 2010| 3 Comments »

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW) has launched a multi-year Early Childhood Initiative designed to spur national debate about early education, provide information to the business community so it can advocate for policies that support high-quality early education, and develop an early education business network. “Global competition for […]

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In quotes: an already broken child care system is collapsing during the pandemic

Posted in Child care, COVID-19, National, Pre-kindergarten, Quotes on December 4, 2020| Leave a Comment »

“It’s important to remember that before Covid, child care did not work in the United States…. I was part of a major study at New America, and it’s one many others have done, that really found that our child care — [that] we don’t really have a child care system. It’s a broken sort of […]

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Get ready for Advocacy Day: Thursday, March 5, 2020

Posted in Early educators, Facilities, Family engagement, MA Legislature, Strategies for Children on February 25, 2020| 3 Comments »

  It is time to get ready for Advocacy Day! This year, Advocacy Day for Early Education & Care and School Age Programs will be on Thursday, March 5, 2020, at 9:30 a.m. at the Massachusetts State House. Please note that there are two ways to participate! You can go to the State House. Or: […]

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Is local governance the missing piece in Massachusetts’ early education puzzle?

Posted in Cost and affordability, Dept. of Early Education and Care, MA Legislature, MA state budget, Massachusetts Cities and Towns, National, Pre-kindergarten, Strategies for Children on April 16, 2019| 1 Comment »

  Strategies for Children has just published a new policy brief, “Local Governance for Early Childhood: Lessons from Leading States.” It contains some of the new knowledge that we’ve learned from our work with communities. What is local governance? Well, think of the K-12 system, which is organized around local school districts, with budgets, programming, […]

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