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Today, the House Select Committee on Early Childhood Education Improvement released its Recommendations to the General Assembly. After releasing an initial draft earlier this week for public comment, the Committee revised its recommendations. Statement by Stephanie Fanjul, President of The...

Where children live and grow has a significant impact on their current state of well-being and their future opportunities for success. In its first data snapshot of the year, the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT explores the increased...

Yesterday, Governor Bev Perdue called on the General Assembly to restore the three-quarters of the one-cent sales tax that was eliminated during the last legislative session and dedicate those funds to education. In response, Dr. Olson Huff, Chair of the Board...

Increase investments in early education, says a group of more than 80 leading business people, educators and elected officials who participated in a year-long study group organized by the Public School Forum of North Carolina. Study group members were...

Following last week’s release of President Obama's fiscal year 2012 budget, First Focus issued a new series of fact sheets that detail the impact of the spending proposal on children and families. Child Health Child Nutrition Early Childhood K-12 Education Income Support Child Housing Child Welfare

In its latest issue brief, the Promising Practices Network includes high quality early education as a promising practice for promoting high school graduation. "Another major class of practices that have been shown to promote high school graduation is interventions that provide...

On February 14, 2011, President Obama released his fiscal year 2012 budget request. First Focus, a national bipartisan child advocacy organization, has a fact sheet that provides a first look at how children fare in his budget proposal. The group says,...

  Watch this video on VideoSurf or see more Dylan Ratigan Videos or Childhood (Robin Hoo Videos MSNBC's Dan Ratigan focuses on early childhood education. He emphasized, "Educating our kids early, from birth, is the key to restoring economic vitality and...

America’s middle-class children have been steadily falling further behind their more privileged peers for the past quarter century – but the worst of the fallout has been held in check by essential policies and programs that could be unraveled,...

Some in Congress have proposed cutting this fiscal year’s non-defense discretionary spending back to 2008 levels. According First Focus, that could mean children's spending takes a big hit. Returning spending back to Fiscal Year 2008 levels, along with the fact that ARRA...