Sentences with phrase «early childhood funding»

As two news stories today make pretty clear, a «he said / he said» situation has put $ 127 million in early childhood funding in jeopardy.

Further, state agencies may interpret early childhood funding information differently, yielding conflicting numbers.

Jessie Rasmussen joined the Buffett Early Childhood Fund in 2007, and her entire professional career has focused on improving outcomes for children and families.

The Buffett Early Childhood Fund supports the Forum, Council, and general operations of the Center of the Developing Child.

The coalition that has backed Minnesota's early learning scholarships would prefer different uses of any expanded early childhood funding.

Stand fought for a $ 223 million increase in appropriations for schools and successfully defeated legislation that would have redirected early childhood funds, expanded programs that lack real accountability, and eliminated funding to needy school districts.

Across the Educare Learning Network, centers are participating in significant policy change efforts to increase the levels of private and public investment in the first five years, and encouraging government to look at early childhood funding in new and innovative ways at the local state and national level.

The New Mexico Early Childhood Funders Group, made up of private and public foundations, is actively engaging the New Mexico Legislature, the media, state agencies and others to expand high - quality home visiting services.

Gov. Susana Martinez has signed a state budget that includes smaller increases than in recent years for early childhood funding.

We expanded programming and developed Early Childhood Funding Boards in each county.

Jessie Rasmussen joined the Buffett Early Childhood Fund in 2007, and her entire professional career has focused on improving outcomes for children and families.

But Buffett also chairs two other foundations: the Sherwood Foundation, which gave out over $ 101 million dollars in 2014; and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, which gave out over $ 18 million in 2013.

Susan Buffett, Chair, the Sherwood Foundation, the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund

Panel Speakers include: Susie Buffett, Peter Buffett, Kirstin Williams - Sherwood Foundation, Aupreeta Das - Wall Street Journal, Jessie Rasmussen - Buffett Early Childhood Fund, Robert P. Miles, Steve Jordon and more...

Newhart is frustrated by the state's declining commitment to early childhood funding.

It summarizes key ESSA provisions related to early childhood funding, policy opportunities and mandates, and suggests key questions for state ESSA planners.

The Early Childhood Funders» Collaborative (ECFC) created the BUILD Initiative in 2002.

Soon after, the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and Ounce of Prevention Fund joined forces to support other local public - private partnerships in communities across the country to establish Educare Schools.

In 2003, the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and the Omaha Public Schools opened the second Educare School on Omaha's north side.

The Alliance was created through funding from the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, which continues to fund the Alliance's work along with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Children's Initiative: a Project of the JB and MK Pritzker Family Foundation, the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the Irving Harris Foundation, and an anonymous donor.

PowerPoint presentation (in PDF format)-- Joan Lombardi, Senior Advisor, Buffett Early Childhood Fund & former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Early Childhood Development, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

She currently serves as Senior Advisor to the Bernard van Leer Foundation on global child development strategies and to a range of foundations on domestic early childhood issues including The Buffett Early Childhood Fund.

Since 2003, the Ounce has partnered with the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, as well as other philanthropies, to replicate the Educare model across the country.

The biggest boosts in early childhood funding — percentage wise — were for home visiting, 31 percent increase (to $ 10.6 million total) and for NM PreK, 26 % increase (to $ 36.5 million).

The Ounce partners with the Buffett Early Childhood Fund and other early childhood champions to create Educare schools in communities across the country.

Soon after, we partnered with the Buffett Early Childhood Fund to create Educare schools in communities across the country.

The BUILD Initiative was launched in May 2002 by the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative (ECFC), a consortium of private foundations.

In the decade since the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative designed the BUILD Initiative, early childhood systems building has moved forward at a dizzying pace.

Invest in US partners supporting the Early Learning Communities initiative include the Alliance for Early Success; The BUILD Initiative; the Early Childhood Funders Collaborative; Early Childhood - LINC at the Center for the Study of Social Policy; The National Association of Counties; the National Governors Association; the National Institute for Early Education Research; The National League of Cities, The Ounce of Prevention Fund, and The U.S. Conference of Mayors.

The Early Childhood Funders Collaborative created the BUILD Initiative over a decade ago as a catalyst for change and a national resource on early childhood development and policy.

We appreciate the proposed increases to early childhood funding and programs that serve at - risk children and families, but that proposal only emphasizes the need for immediate bipartisan action on the FY2016 budget.

BUILD is an eight - state initiative supported by the Early Childhood Funders» Collaborative that assists participating states in building a coordinated system of programs, policies and services.