Sentences with phrase «access to early education»

The Strong Start Act addresses, but does not completely solve, the issue of insufficient access to early education programs.

The report also explores state access to early education, state funding per child, and the quality of providers.

A growing body of scientific evidence about early brain development supports increasing the quality and access to early education experiences.

The Strong Start Act would significantly improve access to early education for low - income children.

Yazzie - Mintz, currently a senior program officer for early childhood education initiatives and co-director of the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs with the American Indian College Fund, has devoted her professional career to improving access to early education for Native children.

A great deal of focus, both at the federal and state level, has been placed on expanding access to early education programs — including preschool and kindergarten — as a way to close achievement gaps between student subgroups.

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

Establishing a high - quality UPK program is a critical first step toward creating equity in access to early education and ensuring that all children begin kindergarten with an equal opportunity to succeed.

First, although pre-K attendance has increased in the past two decades, rates of access to early education vary widely as a function of children's socioeconomic backgrounds: African American, Hispanic, and low - income children are less likely to access center - based early childhood education than their white and more affluent peers.

* Universal family access to early education services should be created.

The White Paper proposes early support for families of children with special needs; such parents should have access to an early education expert, initially as an advisor to parents, then as a teacher.

Sen. Carla Nelson, a former teacher who referred to education as «the great equalizer,» took the stage to give an overview of SF - 1663, a bill which will increase access to early education scholarships for zero - to five - year - olds, and funds targeted home visiting for at - risk families from prenatal to age two.

Nonie Lesaux and Stephanie M. Jones — co-leads of Harvard's Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative — write that under ESSA, states and districts have the opportunity to «expand access to early education, coordinate those efforts and hold themselves accountable for boosting children's early learning and development through high - quality early education.»

Access to early education may allow some children to transition early from special education placements.

States ought to take the lead in designing preschool systems — with the freedom to choose their own approaches — as long as all children have access to early education, consistent with recognized standards and obtainable from a variety of providers.

We expect this work to inform a broader conversation about how we can improve quality of and access to early education and care for all of our early learners.»

Schools and state policymakers, they say, can control and address many of these variances head on: teacher distribution, funding, and access to early education, for example.

The grant program — called the Early Learning Alignment and Improvement Grants — would provide funding for states to improve coordination, quality, and access to early education.

She is the author or co-author of numerous publications, including several publications on immigrant families» access to early education, reports on the use of Title I funds for early childhood programs, and analyses of federal and state child care subsidy policies.