Sentences with phrase «childhood leaders across the state»

She is also responsible for promotion of parent engagement through advocacy and collaboration with other early childhood leaders across the state.

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The county's Lead Primary Prevention program continues to be a leader across New York State in piloting new methods of eliminating childhood lead poisoning in our community.»

Tired of living in the only Southern state without a publicly financed program of early - childhood education, business leaders across Mississippi have launched a three - year pilot effort to improve the educational quality of child - care centers and better prepare children for school.

Kris Perry, executive director of the First Five Years Fund says that ESSA represents a historic gain for early childhood education, «a moment in troubled times when a Congress came together and acted on overwhelming research from experts, demand from voters, and actions taken by state and local leaders across the country to support the development of children from birth to age 5.»

The yearlong process involved more than 175 education, government and business leaders from across the state focused on three key topics related to expanding educational opportunity in North Carolina: addressing the impact of childhood trauma on learning; increasing racial equity; and supporting low - performing schools.

Michelle is also on the faculty of BUILD's Equity Leader's Action Network working with leaders from across the country acting on specific racial inequities in state early childhood systems — in early learning, health, mental health, nutrition, and family support — and especially at the intersection of these systems.

For example, Ohio's early childhood state leaders are creating a common intake and referral system across all home visiting programs and creating a plan that will allow Medicaid reimbursement for home visiting.

Our national policy team builds on the experiences and lessons of our Illinois policy and advocacy work, and partners closely with state leaders across the country to help them raise and strengthen their own early childhood systems.

The Ounce national policy team builds on the experiences and lessons of the Illinois policy and advocacy work, and partners closely with state leaders across the country to help them integrate health across early childhood systems and strengthen connections between the early childhood and health systems.