Smart Start Responds to NC Pre-K Recommendations
The House Select Committee on Early Education Improvement has released its Report of Recommendations to the General Assembly and is requesting public comment. The draft recommendations focus almost exclusively on North Carolina’s Prekindergarten Program (NC Pre-K).
The North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc. (NCPC) developed its responses to the recommendations based on its years of early childhood experience in the state. For the past 20 years Smart Start and its partners have built North Carolina’s early education system into the nationally recognized initiative it is today. In that role, NCPC, in concert with 77 Smart Start local partnerships, was instrumental in the development of More at Four (now NC Pre-K). In partnership with the public schools, we built an infrastructure that allowed the program to flourish and have provided the ongoing support and resources to make the program sustainable.
The House Select Committee will present the recommendations at its meeting on Thursday, March 1 at 9 AM in 643 LOB. Audio of the meeting will be available online at http://www.ncleg.net/Audio/Audio.html.
Download Smart Start’s Position Paper.
