Rep. Hackney Discusses Early Childhood Issues

Represenative Joe Hackney Responds to Chatham County Partnership for Children Candidate Questionnaire

Thank you for the opportunity to respond. I have been a reliable friend and a believer in early childhood education and Smart Start throughout the time of our legislative initiatives in this area.

  1. Affordable Housing. Our best efforts are through the Housing Finance Agency, and the matching federal funding attracted by it. We should continue these programs. They are well complemented by non-profits such as Habitat for Humanity.
  2. Food. In this advanced time, no one should be without or hungry. Many different efforts, non-profits, state, county and federal, address this. We have CORA, homeless shelters, the renamed food stamps program, aging programs and many more.
  3. Access and awareness. Again, publicizing of the help available is done by a variety of governmental and non-governmental agencies and programs
  4. Early Childhood Care and Education. Keep Smart Start and More at Four strong. After the recession is over and state revenues rebound, funding may be able to return to previous levels.
  5. Standards. Our state has a good effort to grade and upgrade child care. I have supported this.
  6. Teachers. Teachers must be trained in the science of early childhood. We are making a lot of progress in this area. It should continue.
  7. Parents. New parents should have available to them the knowledge, and if requested the active assistance, of experienced folks with the knowledge of the science of early childhood.
  8. Increasing Knowledge. We should continue to invest in early childhood research (FPG), and to disseminate the research findings
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