A hundred business leaders statewide join forces to boost school readiness programs to ensure quality workforce MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/-- A coalition of 100 business leaders from across the state is calling for greatly intensified state focus on early childhood education programs and strategy to ensure Michigan's children are prepared to compete in the 21st century global economy. The group, Children's Leadership Council of Michigan, made the announcement today at the Mackinac Policy Conference, where the members urged fellow business leaders and entrepreneurs to commit to support the Michigan Early Childhood Business Plan.
C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray's administration is preparing to be the county's role model for early-childhood education through programs for children as young as 6 months. Education officials are working on a partnership that builds on universal pre-kindergarten in the District and leverages the abilities of community-based organizations that formerly ran pre-K programs.
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SKOWHEGAN -- Kennebec Valley Community Action Program's Child and Family Services has partnered with the Somerset Career and Technical Center of SAD 54 to offer students the opportunity to work hands-on in a preschool setting. The Skowhegan Child Development Center has an enrollment of approximately 30 families serving children 6 weeks to 5 years old. The 2011-2012 school year was the first time students at the Somerset Career and Technical Center were offered programming in early childhood education.
Early childhood education would take one of the biggest hits in a round of layoffs the Pittsburgh school board is expected to finalize on Wednesday. Up to 15 early childhood teachers, 13 paraprofessionals and six other staffers could lose their jobs as a result of a $3 million decrease in state funding for early childhood education programs. The district reduced the number of children in prekindergarten for 2011-12 by more than 400, or about 20 percent.
I applaud the governor for emphasizing the need to expand early childhood education in Connecticut. Making sure that every child gets to go to preschool is an essential element in fighting the achievement gap that exists between children from low-income and middle-class families. The areas with the greatest need should receive the most help, but when the program is expanded, we have to do a better job of reaching pockets of poverty -- wherever they exist. Right now, Connecticut provides nearly $70 million in school readiness grants to 19 priority municipal districts that suffer from the greatest concentrations of poverty. There are also competitive school readiness grants available for another 45 municipalities -- like Hamden -- but those districts must share a total of just under $5 mi...
PORTLAND, Maine -- Companies such as Bath Iron Works and Hannaford are part of a newly launched Maine Early Learning Investment Group pledging to help raise millions in private money to beef up pre-kindergarten learning in the state. James Clair, CEO of Goold Health Systems and chairman of the new group, spoke Thursday morning at a news conference in Portland to celebrate the release of the third installment of the influential "Making Maine Work" report, which ties early childhood education to economic prosperity.
AUGUSTA, Maine -- The state is seeking $32.2 million in federal Race to the Top grant funding to improve public and private early childhood education programs in Maine, particularly those serving students with special needs. Though the grant would be aimed primarily at students who haven't yet reached kindergarten, the importance of early education programs stretches all the way through a child's schooling to the Maine work force, said state officials Wednesday.
With Long Beach and Los Angeles County mired in a stubborn recession, there is no question that these are tough times for many families who are struggling to make ends meet. Despite the heavy toll of the current recession, there's another major threat to our region's economic well-being that needs to be discussed more widely in the public arena. That danger, which is likely to threaten America's position as the world's preeminent economic power, is our slide in world rankings as it pertains to creating an educated future workforce capable of competing in an increasingly tougher world economy.
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