Universal pre-K: He supports providing universal pre-K, free community college and career and technical training.
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Her interviews with educators and administrators give insight into the landscape of the pre-K debate and support her call for universal pre-K.
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I've also introduced a bill, inspired by the Pre-K 4 SA initiative in my hometown San Antonio, called the Pre-K for USA Act.
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We know for example that in pre-K, African-American students are 3.6 times as likely to be suspended from school as white students. Pre-K!
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We need to establish nationwide universal pre-K and offer two years of free community college or technical training, replacing K-12 with pre-K-14.
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The legislation creates new pre-K development grants and provides school districts and local entities with a direct line to federal funding, eliminating their reliance on states to access federal pre-K dollars.
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This was recently reaffirmed by the largest study of pre-K to date, which found that a quality pre-K program substantially boosts the likelihood of attendees ending up with a college degree.
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" -Graeme, 8 "My favorite teacher was actually my pre-K teacher.
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Bill de Blasio: Public pre-K programs changed my children's lives.
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Arthur: When it comes to pre-K, I want to believe.
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That's also how she'd pay for her universal pre-K proposal.
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"He's investing in pre-K (education), which is good," Melendez said.
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It is one reason, he says, he supports universal pre-K.
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Washington, D.C., and New York City already offer free pre-K.
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Not just pre-K, but I mean going back really early.
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State spending on public pre-K has significantly increased each year since the 2015-16 school year, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research, and many cities have also begun offering public pre-K.
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More to the point, focusing so intently on universal pre-K obscures the fact that most pre-K (and K-85033) programs still require a lot of improvements when it comes to curriculum, assessment, and effective instruction.
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Opinion: We need better pre-K, not just more Early childhood expert Suzanne Bouffard writes that while communities nationwide support increasing public funding for pre-K education, it's not enough simply to provide it to more kids.
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That's why I'm over here practicing my pre-K social skills, too.
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And pre-K is just one of at least five crucial years.
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He has also been a supporter of universal kindergarten and pre-K.
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Next year, the city plans to add another 1,000 pre-K seats.
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Nearly all of its pre-K classrooms are based in public schools.
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His mayoral record includes universal pre-K and expanded paid sick leave.
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In education, it could mean creating a "public option" for pre-K.
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Several candidates voiced support for universal pre-K, for raising teachers' wages.
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Now he also works for the city's "Pre-K for All" initiative.
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I remember being sick a lot, too, when she started pre-K.
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She also backs the implementation of universal pre-K in different states.
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Hopefully, other publicly funded pre-K programs will do the same, because just creating more pre-K spots will get us partway to excellence and equity, but partway isn't good enough for our children or our country's future.
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Her plan for universal pre-K for 4-year-olds is almost the definition of a half-measure, as it leaves out 3-year-olds — but it's one year closer to a full pre-K program all the same.
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"Children who come from families of means have always gone to and still go to terrific quality pre-K programs," said Nancy Carlsson-Paige, a co-founder of Defending the Early Years, a nonprofit campaign promoting universal pre-K.
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His mayoral record includes establishing universal pre-K and expanded paid sick leave.
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According to ABC 11, Aubrey graduated from Christian Prep Academy's pre-k class.
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Prices for private pre-K education can run more than the college tuition.
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He's calling back to previous State of the Union proposals on pre-K.
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Some state-funded pre-K teachers are paid less than $15 per hour.
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"I had to work late, and Hank was in pre-K," she recalled.
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Some places around the globe offer free, or universal, pre-K for children.
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Chicago, Illinois, has begun rolling out a universal, full-day pre-K program.
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P.S. 106, on Olmstead Avenue, has 1,20173 students in grades pre-K-5.
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On education, states and cities have created free pre-K or community college.
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So DC pre-K teachers make similar salaries to their elementary school colleagues.
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That's all that matters for all those 70,000 kids going to pre-K.
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However, she stops short of endorsing a national free universal pre-K program.
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We are now embarking on an education protocol for Pre-K to12 students.
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Alternatively, when you take your niece to her Halloween parade at pre-k!
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Terrified students from pre-K to eighth grade were ushered to the basement.
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Teach it in pre-K-12th grade schools, universities, technical, and trade programs.
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"I've been at this awhile on child care and Pre-K," he said.
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The pre-K centers designed their curriculum based on early-learning best practices.
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Mr. Castro's universal prekindergarten proposal, which would apply to 3- and 4-year-olds, echoes one he introduced as mayor of San Antonio, known as "Pre-K for S.A.," which greatly expanded high-quality pre-K programs in the city.
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Meanwhile, in the various states, pre-K is being championed by both political parties.
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One solution could be beefing up child care subsidies or expanding universal pre-K.
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There's no doubt that universal pre-K, implemented well, helps the children who attend.
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In Florida, families can opt to enroll their kids in free voluntary pre-K.
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"We know pre-K worked," Mr. de Blasio said at the recent news conference.
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But Washington's pre-K classrooms seem to be getting results with all their students.
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But Washington's pre-K classrooms seem to be getting results with all their students.
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The private Fairfield Country Day School admits boys in grades pre-K through 19303.
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In 24, Bill de Blasio campaigned for mayor on a promise of universal pre-K.
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Yes. Pre-K through 12th grade, every year, you got to have computer science. Why?
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To get into the school system Hines took a job as a pre-K paraprofessional.
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Access to good pre-K care is low in the US, we're ranked 26th globally.
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Universal pre-K for her son Jonathan means that she can continue working and studying.
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That vision starts with universal pre-K education and an unprecedented investment in America's youth.
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So let's stop thinking that pre-k, universal or targeted, is the silver bullet answer.
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Up until this year, I taught all the way from Pre-K through 12th grade.
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The district serves up to 39,000 students per year, from pre-K to high school.
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There are pages for student supplies for College Supplies or Pre-K to Grades 12.
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There are pages for student supplies for College Supplies or Pre-K to Grades 22019.
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"As I'm thinking about pre-K, sometimes you wonder who the baby is," Kaine added.
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In New York City, families can take advantage of free, full-day pre-K programs.
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Former vice president Joe Biden also called for tripling Title I and free pre-K.
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"I think Bill has accomplishments to point to like universal pre-K," Mr. Johnson said.
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The quality of pre-K implementation partly depends on how it's sold to the public.
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Education: Proposed doubling the number of charter schools in Massachusetts and imposing universal pre-K.
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A few support universal pre-K but don't have a plan for kids under 3.
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During his tenure, Denver expanded pre-K to every 4-year-old in the city.
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I will exclude vague promises such as universal pre-K and expanded special education funding.
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He didn't start out wanting to teach pre-K Hines didn't mean to become a pre-K teacher, but after spending two years in a classroom he fell in love with the impact a teacher can make during a child's first year of school.
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Although universal pre-K is off to an impressive start, it's still a work in progress.
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She's gone to that school since pre-K, so it's the only school she's ever known.
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His biggest accomplishment as mayor has been implementing a universal pre-K system in the city.
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On-demand app-based learning is a great supplement for families who cannot afford pre-K.
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In 2018 Alabama's legislature bolstered pre-K funding by around $19m, the state's largest-ever increase.
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The inequality begins in pre-K, where rich kids go to school and poor kids don't.
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The academy has about 825 students in grades pre-K through 12, housed on two campuses.
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She also voiced her support for "Medicare for all," universal pre-K and debt-free college.
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Oneducation:Delaney supports guaranteed education starting in pre-K through at least two years of higher education.
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The school district in Washington, DC, offers free, full-day pre-K on a lottery basis.
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"The only good thing he ever did was — I like that pre-K stuff," Dietl said.
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The office received at least 100 more pre-K complaints in 2016 than the year before.
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The data suggested that the private pre-K programs were performing better than the public ones.
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Her twin sons, now about to start pre-K, would run under the towering trees outside.
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The Building Blocks of a Good Pre-K The Anti-Helicopter Parent's Plea: Let Kids Play!
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Or perhaps an entire school career, from pre-K through high school graduation, of clean air.
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The U.S. government would also fund free full-day pre-K, which would be run locally.
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Brand new building pre-k to 215 opens Fall '22012 in Bloomfield, CT- her daddy's hometown.
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There is little doubt that pre-k programs can benefit young children, but in the rush to ensure that benefit justifies the argument for providing pre-k for every child in the U.S., we're losing sight of an important truth: the benefits of school are cumulative.
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New York decided early to make pre-K available to every child, rather than just poor kids.
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A lot of pre-K centers in New York are not diverse, according to a recent study.
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It's usually late at night or while the kids are in pre-K three days a week.
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Khan Academy now offers courses from pre-K through test prep for medical and law school applicants.
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It's since expanded to reach 10,000 teachers and over 500 pre-K-12 public and private schools.
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Same with universal pre-K: Big study, in Kentucky, I mean Tennessee, showed it didn't do anything.
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But wanting pre-K to do all these things and the programs actually working are different things.
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The party has spent the past five years proposing policies — the Buffett rule, universal pre-K, etc.
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Somehow we cannot do what other countries around the world, is provide quality childcare and pre-K.
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Ashley Barker, a pre-K teacher, said her students embraced her and didn't want to let go.
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There has also been a push to enroll more homeless students in the city's pre-K program.
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There is good evidence that high-quality pre-K programs like Head Start can improve school readiness.
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He's in favor of universal pre-K, free public college across the board, and Medicare for all.
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Michelle Goldberg argues that universal pre-K can be transformative, both educationally and as subsidized child care.
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It is expected to open in 2022 and offer 450 seats from pre-K through fifth grade.
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The pre-K classes will have a student-to-staff ratio of 10:1, as experts recommend.
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As I wrote, I want taxes raised to fund more pre-K education for more American kids.
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"We've got to protect the pre-K school inside this building," one of the officers told Hyperallergic.
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Only about half of underserved children who would benefit from pre-K are enrolled in these programs.
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The city has also made a push to register more homeless students for pre-K, an effort the report found to be working — the institute found a 17 percent increase in pre-K enrollment among homeless children from the 2014-15 school year to the 2015-16 school year.
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Custom-made glasses with palm tree prints in honor of Sunshine Pre-K, where the newlyweds first met.
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She and a friend, a pre-K teacher, acknowledged that the stakes this month don't feel as visceral.
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Just visit any pre-k school in a city then visit the high school in the same city.
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In that role he has overseen tax cuts and signed state funding for pre-K education into law.
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" 'A pre-K to college model' The Chicago Board of Education approved the plan, known as "Learn. Plan.
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One example was universal pre-K education, which is necessary to ensure every child is prepared for school.
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We know an impressive amount about what makes a pre-K program successful, thanks to decades of research.
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"Tonight, I pledge to be the governor who brings universal public Pre-K to Rhode Island," she said.
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Delaney proposed paying for universal pre-K by placing a 27% surtax on Americans earning higher than $211,222.
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He worked on traditional education, expanding high-quality pre-K and helping low-income teenagers go to college.
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Against this backdrop, local leaders believed pre-K could provide a foundation for the city's K–12 reforms.
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Additionally, a Center for American Progress study found that DC's universal pre-K expansion raised mothers' employment rates.
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Politically speaking, it's easy to promise pre-K as a cost-effective alternative to tough K–12 reforms.
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That led to programs to expand pre-K and to improve libraries, parks and recreation centers, he said.
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He told me that before his term was over, he wanted to make pre-K universal in Virginia.
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We are starting our pre-K enrollment [which is funded with the help of the soda tax revenue].
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In my column, I mentioned research by the economist Elizabeth Cascio on the benefits of universal pre-K.
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It was not about Democratic values, or her latest 18-point plan to make pre-K a reality.
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Her Upward Hound proposal for puppy pre-K is an incremental, modestly funded shadow of Bernie Sanders's version.
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Her Upward Hound proposal for puppy pre-K is an incremental, modestly funded shadow of Bernie Sanders's version.
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Rather than run on the "mom and apple pie" promise of universal pre-K, candidates this fall should run on the promise of doing the hard work to build a high-quality early education system, reflecting not only the importance of pre-K, but the five years that follow it.
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The universal pre-K program is mirrored would be funded by a grant program to state and local governments.
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The Joel School has an enrollment of 500 students from Pre-K to third grade, according to its website.
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But the gains are not as significant as we might hope, given the tremendous investment universal pre-K represents.
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Gail: Here's something specific — how about Hillary Clinton's plan for high-quality pre-K for all 4-year-olds?
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Our young children are in a precarious position, because we are in danger of not getting pre-K right.
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Pouring tens of millions of dollars into universal pre-K leaves a pittance for more effective family-support programs.
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Nearby parochial schools include St. Helena's School, with grades pre-K-8 and St. Raymond's High School for Boys.
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Last year, they received over 3,000 applications for only 100 open spots in its pre-k through fifth grade.
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" He added: "He started out very well, made good appointments, did pre-K, a major achievement, and family leave.
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Roosevelt's dream of "cradle to grave" coverage animates proposals for baby bonds, universal pre-K and Medicare for All.
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Barack Obama proposed universal pre-K, and he was backing that with different kinds of taxes on the wealthy.
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Under pre-K and now 3-K, she said, New York "can follow kids from birth onto high school."
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Other cities and states — Baltimore, Memphis and New York; Florida, Vermont and West Virginia — have also expanded pre-K.
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Bloomberg stops short of guaranteeing free, universal pre-K and child care for children under the age of three.
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That said, President Trump has not indicated any support for free universal pre-K or full-day child care.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden and billionaire activist Tom Steyer have previously indicated support for free universal pre-K.
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Families would have guaranteed free child care and pre-K spots in their communities, supervised by fairly paid professionals.
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Universal pre-K, the chief initiative of Mr. de Blasio's first term in office, is a categorically great thing.
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Because they work within the public school system, pre-K teachers earn the same as high school chemistry teachers.
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According to court documents, Cleveland School District currently enrolls about 21969,212 students from pre-K through to grade 2000.
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According to court documents, Cleveland School District currently enrolls about 22014,799 students from pre-K through to grade 12.
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There could have been a real chance at implementing a nationwide paid family leave program or universal pre-K.
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They are celebrating their 25th anniversary of the Georgia Pre-K program, which is free for 4-year-olds statewide.
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"What I don't get is why we're even arguing about this anymore," he said about implementing universal pre-K programs.
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Clinton's plan also includes universal pre-K starting for all four-year-olds and massive childcare subsidies for student-parents.
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He's established a universal pre-K initiative in New York City, for which studies show leads to higher incomes. Sen.
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As mayor, he led successful urban renewal efforts and a ballot initiative for universal Pre-K for the city's children.
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Access to quality pre-K made a huge difference for our kids, and ultimately changed the lives of our family.
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Make pre-K a right for every family — it's a clean policy that addresses both of Ryan's anti-poverty goals.
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Clearly, our computer science courses, from pre-K to AP, are skipping over many of our nation's best and brightest.
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The upper school's tuition falls around $67,500, while children entering the school's pre-K program pay around $17,100 per year.
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How refreshing it will be to hear Castro discuss his plans for a "Green New Deal," and universal pre-K.
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EDT: The Congressional Pre-K Caucus holds a launch event in the Rayburn House Office Building featuring "Sesame Street" characters.
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Universal pre-K would significantly reduce the achievement gaps in math and reading for African American and low income children.
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I was emailing neighborhood pre-K programs, inquiring about the future enrollment of my son who wasn't quite born yet.
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And Mara sees the racially integrated nature of New York City's pre-K program as a kind of public service.
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Babies and toddlers in low-income families are at great risk of falling behind their peers well before pre-K.
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Elmo and the Cookie Monster from "Sesame Street" joined lawmakers on Thursday to help launch the Congressional Pre-K Caucus.
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Classroom observers reported that left to their own devices, each teacher was inventing pre-K on his or her own.
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As mayor of San Antonio, Texas, Castro in 943 spearheaded Pre-K 294 SA, billed as a universal preschool program.
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The spring of Leo's pre-K year of school, Leo came home and said nobody wanted to be his friend.
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Once Brady heads to pre-K, we may not keep the nanny, and panic will set in regarding after-school care.
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When Charlee recently graduated from her Connecticut Pre-K, Derek ran up to her, gave her a hug and started crying.
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In 2002 West Virginia passed legislation that required the state to offer pre-K to all four-year-olds by 2012.
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We didn't just implement universal pre-K to improve educational outcomes and put money back in the pockets of working families.
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Education can no longer be about building occupation-specific skills, nor can it be limited to pre-K through high school.
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Starfall Available on both iPhone and Android, this is the companion app for the popular pre-K and kindergarten curriculum providers.
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Just like young children, pre-K programs need to be supported, guided and monitored if they are going to do well.
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It is far better than doing nothing at all, and there's a place for pre-K in the early childhood landscape.
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At AltSchool, in Silicon Valley, where pre-K tuition is $27,000 a year, modeling failure is a part of the curriculum.
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Maybe, like with universal pre-K, he'll end up funding the capital fixes in full, and claim it as his own.
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They're not agitating for tuition-free college, universal pre-K or anything that would change how they get their health care.
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And it's about investing money, yes, but also time and ideas in pre-K to higher ed and in workforce development.
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To them, Montessori or HighScope, Reggio Emilia or Waldorf, or some other school of pre-K pedagogy embodies the Holy Grail.
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We will always wonder what would have happened if he'd said "Pre-K, all the way!" and gotten a similar reaction.
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And in that capacity, he has delivered a $15 minimum wage, universal pre-K, and the end of stop-and-frisk.
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We work with experts that help us understand what are the things that kids need to know before they go into pre-K for the first time or any kind of formal pre-K because sometimes ... Look, I go to communities where kids are like 203 before they actually enter a real school, or as young as 3.
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"We simply don't have the money to provide a quality pre-K experience to every child in North Carolina, even though I absolutely agree that a face-to-face, high-quality pre-K is the best option," said State Representative Craig Horn, a Republican leading an effort to get North Carolina to fund an Upstart program.
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And what's more, the collection actually outpaces our pre-K fantasy by offering not 64, but an astounding 95 shades that — bonus!
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That very morning, she wrote, ''65,000 of our city's 4-year-olds started their day in free, universal, high-quality pre-K.
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The party was exhausted by the Affordable Care Act fight, and wanted to move on to other issues like universal pre-k.
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She was an early proponent of offering reparations to black Americans, and she supports programs like universal pre-K and free college.
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But it was even harder than usual for 4-year-old Jackson Scherlen, who started pre-K this week without his father.
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They're not names for Silicon Valley start-ups, nor is this list drawn from a pre-K register in Brooklyn's Park Slope.
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So at 5:40 PM while getting everything together to pick up my daughter from Pre-K, I dialed the help line.
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Children in Pre-K practice protocols for shooting events, learning to dodge bullets before many of them learn to read or count.
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But private pre-K education programs can run more than college tuition, a financial burden many low-income families simply can't afford.
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"[Universal pre-K] bolsters two generations, sometimes three, at the same time," New York Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Donna Lieberman said.
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Still, parents and experts alike have said that the benefits of having universal pre-K outweigh the problems that come with it.
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The alleged incident happened at the Tift County Pre-K Center in Tifton, Georgia, on March 17, according to local media reports.
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"my 13 year old brother has liked the same girl since pre-k and he gets rejected year after year," she wrote.
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And while New Jersey's quality is good, the vast majority of the state's children do not have access to public pre-K.
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Gallup finds that Americans by more than two to one favor universal pre-K, and Clinton and Sanders are both strong advocates.
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The U.S. government also provides funding for Head Start programs, which served 22019,000 pre-K students in 2017, according to government data.
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Many of these photos show mothers who didn't attended a prom earlier in life escorting their children to the pre-K proms.
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Tennessee's Republican governor, Bill Haslam, has made his state's community colleges tuition-free, while Georgia and Oklahoma have been pre-K leaders.
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"To be honest, it's made people more determined to celebrate," said Rachel Gillard-Tew, 32, a pre-K teacher from New Zealand.
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Now, DC enrolls three-quarters of its 20153-year-olds in free, public pre-K classrooms in its district and charter schools.
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So I asked my daughter's pre-K teacher to recommend a teacher, and I ended up observing this wonderful kindergarten teacher's class.
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The work is far from over, both in New York and in cities experimenting with large pre-K programs around the country.
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The first piece of good news came from the city of Chicago, which announced it would start universal full-time pre-K.
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I'd be in favor of government cuts to many other programs before cutting — or failing to create — pre-K for budgetary reasons.
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We're going to do things that actually reach your family, like higher wages, better benefits, better health care, pre-K for children.
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We may think we can't afford universal pre-K, but we don't blink at lavishing billions of dollars on these military deployments.
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As soon as she opened the door, and they hugged, there was no mistaking that she was his old pre-K sweetheart.
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But Mr. de Blasio has met and overcome dubiousness before, with pre-K for 4-year-olds, one of his signature accomplishments.
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When it comes to pre-K, Sanders would guarantee access to "full-day, full-week" programs for children starting at age 3.
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Last year, for example, Mr. Cuomo took credit for bringing universal pre-K to the city, one of the mayor's signature programs.
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One of de Blasio's biggest moves as mayor of New York City was establishing the city's universal pre-K program in 2014.
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It's hard to pass a law providing the money to create a new guarantee of universal access to high-quality pre-K.
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By June, as he was finishing he pre-K year, I had a discussion with him about his feelings regarding his gender.
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Family leave, child allowances, and universal pre-K acknowledge that we need to look beyond male breadwinners as the core economic unit.
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We also saved pre-K, because that was going to be slashed to half-day and to only part of the week.
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However, several times in the last three years, I've been asked about their race, most recently on a pre-K school application form.
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The city is spending $10,200 for each child, about as much as Boston budgets for its public pre-K, a demonstrably effective program.
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The opportunity to attend a high-performing school is largely determined by the neighborhood a child lives in, not access to pre-K.
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They discussed her plan to expand pre-K, increase access to good-paying jobs, and make fixes to the state's criminal justice system.
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Our boys would walk right into their first day of pre-K and kiss me goodbye with a huge smile on their faces.
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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) believes universal pre-K and college should be a "fundamental right" and should be debt-free, The Atlantic reports.
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And we invested in our people – expanding pre-K and higher education, because education was the key to all we wanted to be.
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When Luis Tamarez stood in front of his pre-K classmates for the first time, there wasn't a dry eye in the room.
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The military long has recognized the need to strengthen children's potential through robust services for families, from home visiting to quality pre-K.
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This app offers kids from pre-K through sixth grade a digital library of age-appropriate fiction, non-fiction, videos and interactive games.
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It's hard to imagine why a pre-k playground surface would be controversial enough to make it to the highest court in America.
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In one out of every six pre-K classrooms, more than 90 percent of the students were of the same race or ethnicity.
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The mayor and his allies point to a slate of accomplishments to make their case: universal pre-K, paid sick leave, police reform.
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What we will also do is not only have universal pre-K, we will make public colleges and universities and HBCUs debt-free.
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DC students generally attend pre-K for a similar amount of time as they will in kindergarten — at least 6.5 hours each day.
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A 2015 study found that students who attended Tennessee's public pre-K program showed weaker academic trajectories than non-attendees after several years.
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And we invested in our people expanding pre-K and higher education, because education was the key to all we wanted to be.
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She has proposed a universal child-care and pre-K program that echoes the universal high school movement of the early 20th century.
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She wants a universal program of pre-K and child care, administered locally, with higher pay for teachers and affordable tuition for families.
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Research by Dartmouth's Elizabeth Cascio has found that universal pre-K — while more expensive than targeted, income-based programs — particularly helps poor children.
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"As president, Biden will work with states to offer pre-K for all three- and four-year-olds," according to his campaign website.
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In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan to offer free pre-K to all 3-year-olds by 2021.
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Currently only a handful of states, New York included, require children to be vaccinated against the flu to enter daycare or pre-K.
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He supported universal pre-K and more affordable college options, but not universal loan forgiveness like leading candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.
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"That's why my brother pushed the pre-K initiative in San Antonio, which has been a model for the nation," he said. Rep.
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Trump was greeted by a group of 10 students from UNIS, the pre-K-to-12th grade school associated with the United Nations.
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The children are our future, and they deserve the best possible head start in life with a high quality, universal pre-K program.
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And her commitment persists in this campaign: Her boldest proposals are probably her plans for guaranteed paid parental leave and universal pre-K.
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She just knew she loved P.S. 21307, waking up each morning excited to head to her pre-K class, where her two best friends were a little black girl named Imani from Farragut and a little white boy named Sam, one of a handful of white pre-K students at the school, with whom we car-pooled from our neighborhood.
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Still, New York's experience in trying to institute the program so quickly provides some valuable lessons for other pre-K efforts across the country.
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She also outlined a plan to raise taxes to pay for pre-K, free public college, Medicare-for-all and a Green New Deal.
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Dressed in a purple cap and gown, the North Carolina pre-k grad danced her way across the ceremony stage with the sweetest confidence.
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And they're trying to make sure conversations about child care are integrated with conversations about things like universal pre-K and paid family leave.
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Pre-K for All is also passing the test among some of its most important judges: the parents of the kids who are enrolled.
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During his first term, he positioned himself as a centrist, impeding a New York City plan for free pre-K and pushing charter schools.
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Kaine has also consistently championed universal pre-K, sensible gun regulation, and comprehensive immigration reform, and is an unwavering opponent of the death penalty.
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In New York City, immigrant-rights groups have partnered with the Mayor's Office to shepherd immigrant students into Pre-K and 3-K programs.
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He cited several studies on policies that he said would help low-income students more than desegregation would: pre-K, meditation, tutoring, school choice.
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Many developed nations now have more than 90% enrollment in pre-K programs, surpassing the US with just 66% enrollment for 4-year-olds.
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Strong state pre-K programs will help reverse inequality and restore excellence in the education of our children and the adults who teach them.
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He expressed support for Medicare for All, universal pre-K, and the Paris agreement, while pledging to "not take a dime" in PAC money.
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It's an expression of the mainstream of Democratic Party policy thinking on a wide range of topics, from pre-K to housing to unemployment.
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Miller, 30, is a fifth-grade math teacher at the Calhoun School, a pre-K to 12th grade private coed school in New York.
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Invest in Baby Einstein and a "Teach Your Baby to Read" system, so yours will be the smartest kid in the pre-K class.
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Now that DC serves most 3- and 4-year-olds in public pre-K classrooms, its child care costs are among the country's highest.
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If pre-K reduces the number of children who repeat a grade or are placed in special education services, it saves public education dollars.
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It took big promises to make universal pre-K happen in DC. But it's paying off — largely because the city refused to cut corners.
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When city inspectors enter pre-K classrooms, they are looking for things a parent who simply sees a room of exuberant toddlers might miss.
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In 2017, Mr. de Blasio announced the expansion of pre-K into a program for 3-year-olds, now commonly known as 3-K.
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Nationally, about 33 percent of 4-year-olds were in state-funded pre-K last year, with another 11 percent in other public programs.
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About 44 percent of four-year-olds nationwide are enrolled in a public pre-K program, a big increase over the past 15 years.
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IDEA Public Schools is a network of 96 public charter schools in Texas and Louisiana that serves students from pre-K through high school.
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Debbie Ingram filed a bill last week that would provide free breakfast and lunch to all public school students pre-K through 12th grade.
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P.S. 340 has 63 students in prekindergarten through second grade, and P.S. 3 Charrette School has 768 students in pre-K through fifth grade.
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P.S. 41Greenwich Village, likewise pre-K through fifth grade, has 698 students, of whom 84 percent met state standards in both English and math.
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Brinley, who was in her second year of pre-K, "loved playing dress up" and adored Elsa and Anna from her favorite movie, Frozen.
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Also in the top 10 best states for: health care access, pre-k through 12 education, equality, public safety and long-term fiscal stability.
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A study of Boston's preschools found that poor and middle-class children who attended pre-K did better on subsequent tests of literacy and math.
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Right now, Rick doesn't have to deal with morning duties, but when Brady starts pre-K this fall he will need to drop him off.
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It was only after a year of dating that the couple realized they had been childhood loves at Sunshine Pre-K so many years ago.
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Mr. Sanders, who also supports paid leave and universal pre-K, takes a different rhetorical tone, usually stressing affordable higher education and universal health care.
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Brightwheel's mobile app helps pre-K teachers and care providers to manage their business, while sending parents updates about their kids throughout the school day.
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So when I became mayor, my first goal was to provide free pre-K for every child in New York City -- and I did it.
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It quickly became apparent to them after a "disastrous time in Pre-K" that educating Iris from home might be the best environment for her.
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Schools like the Calhoun School and the Ethical Culture Fieldston cost over $40,000 for full day pre-K while the Brooklyn Explorers Academy costs $26,000.
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I believe that pre-K is the best investment we can make as a nation in order to prosper in this 21st-century global economy.
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We need a new commitment by the federal government to ensure that every student has quality educational opportunities, from pre-K through college and beyond.
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In northern Europe, governments provide child care, pre-K, public schools, college tuition, and free health care for all, financed out of general tax revenues.
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The Office of Head Start can bring pre-K and kindergarten educators together to ensure their school readiness guidelines connect directly to states' kindergarten standards.
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The Building Blocks curriculum literally offers math-focused "learning trajectories," a set of sequenced, structured learning experiences for youth from pre-K through eighth grade.
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Polis supports "Medicare for all," universal pre-K and slowly transitioning Colorado — a state with plenty of oil and gas business — to all-renewable energy.
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Our educational system, from pre-K to college, serves the wealthy relatively well, but leaves far too many without access, underprepared or drowning in debt.
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They'll trust their own experience when it comes to universal pre-K, neighborhood safety, school improvement and what I'm doing to keep their apartment affordable.
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I was glad to see New Jersey's new Democratic governor, Phil Murphy, propose free community college and expanded pre-K for his state last week.
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Whoops, I just figured out universal pre-K but what's that over there — Mayor Pete Bu-Judge Judy-Jute's playing piano and speaking fluent Klingon.
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As New York's pre-K expands and becomes more successful, the city should focus on improving its early elementary school instruction, Mr. Polakow-Suransky said.
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Today, its student body (consisting of 435 students, from pre-K to high school, across 35 nationalities) has more than quadrupled from its original size.
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As Emanuel recounts, at the same time that Congress was frustrating Obama's desires for a national pre-K program, America's mayors were getting started locally.
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The CAP plan for universal access to affordable, high-qualify pre-K was not feasible for the foreseeable future when it was published in 2015.
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As a New York City Council member, I've worked enthusiastically with Mayor de Blasio on universal pre-K, affordable housing, and workers' rights, and with Sen.
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"When the HOPE scholarship and funding for pre-K were threatened Stacey Abrams got to work with Democrats and Republicans," the narrator says in the ad.
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In 2013, this Legislature took the next step by expanding to full day pre-K, offering to local governments across the state including New York City.
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Quality, pre-K education is a major factor in overall childhood development, of course, but it even makes an impact on crime reduction and economic growth.
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He recently announced $1.2bn in new funding directed at the spectrum of young children's needs, from home visits, to affordable child care, to expanded pre-K.
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Looking for a new challenge, Ventilla pondered how one might rethink the entire school experience and apply personalization to a pre-K through eighth-grade school.
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Education: Castro released a plan that would create a universal pre-K program and create tuition-free public colleges, community colleges and technical and vocational programs.
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Polis is proposing free pre-K and full-day public kindergarten for Colorado students; meanwhile, Kennedy has the backing of the Colorado Education Association teachers union.
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He said he would implement a universal pre-K program as president, based on a similar program he launched as mayor of San Antonio in 2012.
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The company is also launching a school for pre-K through fourth grade called WeGrow and runs a "learn to code" operation called the Flatiron School.
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The two-term mayor touted his progressive policy achievements in New York City including universal Pre-K and his successful push for a $15 minimum wage.
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Pre-K 4 SA students score above average on third-grade reading assessments, a key metric for future success, with stronger math skills and better attendance.
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He awarded the contract to run the city's pre-K program to a politically connected non-profit run by allies who endorsed him in the primary.
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Let's disabuse ourselves of the notion that universal access to pre-K will cure the ills of our public education system and close the achievement gap.
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Boston Public Schools has developed an early education curriculum that promotes learning tactics they know work well—not only in pre-K but through third grade.
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P.S. 22 Clinton Hill has about 23 students in pre-K through Grade 18463; 21846 percent met state standards in English and 21851 percent in math.
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P.S. 21980 Philip Livingston has about 780 students in pre-K through fifth grade; 53 percent met state standards in English and 57 percent in math.
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P.S. 38 the Pacific has about 545 students in pre-K through fifth grade; 49 percent met state standards in English and 18513 percent in math.
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But it did help make pre-K a core part of the Democratic policy agenda in a way it hadn't been before Obama's plan came down.
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We want to hear from parents, teachers and students of pre-k – 12, about how race and diversity are being discussed in schools and at home.
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Castro said he would invest in universal pre-K, tribal school infrastructure and commit $3 billion to "minority-serving institutions" like the Tribal Colleges and Universities.
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Research has shown that if students move from excellent pre-Ks to mediocre kindergarten and first-grade classes, the gains achieved in pre-K can evaporate.
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It all went down Monday afternoon at P.S. 288 -- a school for Pre-K to 8th graders -- in Brooklyn ... and the message was inspirational and heartfelt.
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Mr. Merritt said he had only seen two things improve under Mr. de Blasio: universal pre-K and lifting the minimum wage to $15 an hour.
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For more on pre-K, I recommend this report by the National Institute for Early Education Research, which describes the recent growth and the remaining challenges.
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Other articles and essays we used with our students include: Language-Gap Study Bolsters a Push for Pre-K Who Says Math Has to Be Boring?
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Throughout the 2020 campaign, Sanders has supported universal pre-K starting at age three, but Sanders released a far broader vision for child care on Monday.
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It plays exactly into her message of income inequality and a system that cares more about low taxes on investments than investing in universal pre-K.
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Students in pre-K through Grade 2 attend Daniel Webster School, which has 425 students; about 380 in Grades 2107 through 22.25 attend Theodore Roosevelt School.
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Also in the top 10 best states for: health care access, pre-k through 12 education, employment, economic opportunity, equality, corrections, public safety and social environment.
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While the creation of "Pre-K for All," as the mayor calls the program, has been widely deemed a success, Renewal has been far more problematic.
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Deborah Stipek, a professor at Stanford and the former dean of its school of education, said Wonderschool doesn't solve the problem of lowering pre-K costs.
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"There is an elaborate series of biases, often unintended, that begin actually at pre-K and go all the way through the education system," Kapor Klein said.
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Outlined in The Leaky Tech Pipeline are four key stages of the pipeline: Pre K-12 education, higher education, the tech workforce and entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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The couple first met as toddlers at Sunshine Pre-K in St. Petersburg, Florida, where they shared a "shy" schoolyard romance playing tag and building blocks together.
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When it comes to affordable housing or universal pre-K or aggressively reducing the amount of stop-and-frisk, they feel this man finally spoke for them.
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The building links to a pavilion with new offices for local nonprofits and the new 60,000-square-foot Dream Charter School for grades pre-K through eight.
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Adding two truly universal programs, for pre-K and family leave, not only amplifies that message but goes a long way toward achieving the goal it sets.
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Ms Farran argues that some "states are so busy ramping up pre-K that they are not paying attention to what is actually going on in classrooms".
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"We need a new commitment by the federal government to ensure that every student has quality educational opportunities, from pre-K through college and beyond," he wrote.
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She pays about $300 each month for him to stay longer than the city-wide school day of six hours and 20 minutes for universal pre-K.
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Opportunities for high-quality pre-K remain highly unequal across our country, and much of the progress in early education depends more than ever on the states.
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Even publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs that require teachers to have the same credentials as kindergarten teachers rarely require equivalent pay and benefits for pre-K teachers.
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So when we call for expanding public education so that we have pre-K universally for every child in every part of the country, it's addressing that.
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In announcing his candidacy for president earlier this month, Julian Castro touted his success in expanding full-day pre-K while he was mayor of San Antonio.
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She says she's got a plan for everything: Criminal justice reform, breaking up tech giants, universal pre-K, student debt relief, and a tax on the wealthy.
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The tax, she says, could pay for a slew of programs, including student debt relief, universal pre-K, child care and increased pay for child care workers.
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Users are asked to choose a grade level, separated into pre-K and kindergarten, first and second grade, third through fifth grade, and sixth grade and above.
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"It's been an absolute success," the mayor said on Friday after visiting a museum that was hosting dozens of children from the city's expanded pre-K program.
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Nationally, private pre-K education tends to be either fancier, smaller early education programs or larger ones with shorter schedules, lower-quality instruction, and less material support.
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"Seeing this kind of blending of cultures and socioeconomic backgrounds, you really see the benefits for all children," says DC Public Schools pre-K teacher Lisa Gross.
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Users are asked to choose a grade level, separated into pre-K and kindergarten, first and second grade, third through fifth grade, and sixth grade and above.
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It was "pre-K: How many seats" and "where was the space going to come from, where are we going to get the teachers" and everything else.
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My view is that universal pre-K brings bigger benefits than targeted programs do, as Cascio's research shows, and that the long-term returns are hugely positive.
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We got things done like pre-K for all, despite having a state Senate Republican majority, and we have to work with them to get it done.
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" However, she added in a later question that if she wasn't famous, she would want to be a pre-K teacher or a "stay at home mommy.
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Lastly, and I can't believe we have to remind people of this, but it's GOOD to have classrooms (from pre-k through college!) to be socioeconomically integrated.
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Not only is more federal, state, local and private investment in schools and pre-K needed, but funding dollars must follow students through 4th grade and beyond.
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Obama's 2015 budget included $1.3 trillion in tax increases on the wealthy and corporations, and it intended to spend those funds, in part, on universal pre-k.
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When her daughter showed signs of a speech delay and attention difficulties in pre-K, she thought she would be able to get her needs addressed quickly.
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Like here: Two cents on the one-tenth of 26 percent, the greatest fortunes in this country, $214 million and above, and for 2 cents we can provide universal child care, universal pre-K, raise the wages of all our child care workers and pre-K workers, universal technical school, two-year college, four-year college, and cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the people who've got it.
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Two cents on the one-tenth of one percent, the greatest fortunes in this country, $50 million and above, and for two cents we can provide universal child care, universal pre-K, raise the wages of all our child care workers and pre-K workers, universal technical school, two-year college, four-year college, and cancel student loan debt for 95 percent of the people who've got it.
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No one loves Moana more than the little girl who sang her heart out at her pre-K graduation ceremony in early June, taking the Internet by storm.
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For the students in the two pre-K classes from Ms. Sprouse's school, Ms. Milchman and the staff of Mysteries on Main set out to establish that comfort.
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She first took note of color and class when she realized she was one of the few black students who attended her private pre-K and elementary school.
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Cuomo has worked to compromise, overshadow, or undercut de Blasio at every turn, starting with de Blasio's signature campaign promise in his 2013 mayoral campaign, universal pre-K.
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Many years later, these former pre-K students are less likely to be arrested, to drop out of high school, to be on welfare and to be jobless.
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She says she's got a detailed plan for everything: Criminal justice reform, breaking up tech giants, universal pre-K, student debt relief, and a tax on the wealthy.
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As we have said all along, we welcome participants of all kinds in the city's pre-K program, provided they commit to our high standards for program quality.
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On Tuesday evening, the former vice president debuted an education plan that calls for more federal investment in low-income schools, universal pre-K, and raises for teachers.
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But proponents point to real-world evidence, on a much smaller scale: the cities and states with universal pre-K, where it's not only been possible, but popular.
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"I don't think anyone will remember pre-K or any of the progressive stuff de Blasio did if he allows Nycha to continue its decline," Mr. Bloom said.
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It matters that we choose someone who saw the wasted potential of our children denied pre-K and gave it to every single one of them for free.
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This means that as Mayor Bill de Blasio's signature initiative — public pre-K for all 23-year-olds in New York City — gets bigger, it is also improving.
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In 23, there were only 23,000 New York City children enrolled in prekindergarten; Mr. de Blasio's initiative launched in 2014 and now enrolls about 70,000 pre-K students.
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After two terms in office, his list of accomplishments is substantial — stricter gun safety regulations, a statewide pre-K program, a higher minimum wage and paid family leave.
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In total, there will be 107 dual-language programs for the 2019-20 school year, including the city's first French, Haitian-Creole, Hebrew and Japanese pre-K programs.
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But we had pre-K advocates, parks and recreation advocates, library advocates, religious folks — we had a cross section of people who were not paid to be lobbyists.
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"It's time to guarantee prenatal care, in-home nurse visits, and access to quality pre-K for every child in California," he said in his latest television advertisement.
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Housing for All and universal child care and pre-K would be funded by the wealth tax on the 0.1 percent, or those making more than $32 million.
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At Wednesday's event, Castro touted his work as San Antonio mayor when voters in 2012 approved "Pre-K for SA," which was covered by a sales tax increase.
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Also in the top 10 best states for: health care access, public health, pre-k through 103 education, employment, economic opportunity, broadband access, energy, transportation and social environment.
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"I understand that there is a difference, sometimes subtle, sometimes huge, in volunteerism and activism," said Carolyn Munson, a pre-K teacher and mother of two in Decatur, Georgia.
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She has proposed an anti-corruption bill, universal child care and pre-K, and ideas to break up tech giants like Facebook, reform corporate governance, and preserve public lands.
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Polis is proposing free pre-K and full-day public kindergarten for Colorado students; meanwhile, former state treasurer Kennedy has the backing of the Colorado Education Association teachers union.
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Four-year-olds would have universal access to pre-K, and child care would be massively subsidized so as to cap costs at 10 percent of a family's income.
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That's money we need so that every kid in this country has a decent childcare opportunity, has an opportunity for Pre-K, has an opportunity for a decent school.
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Kids who get quality pre-K education earn anywhere from $9,000 to $30,000 more over their lifetime than those without it, according to a December 2014 White House report.
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Adjusting to a new curriculum and explaining the details of funding as well as what is and is not included in universal pre-K was difficult, according to Cheng.
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They help prepare low-income people for work, fund low-income housing and education from pre-k to college, provide healthcare and nutrition aid for women, infants and toddlers.
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A consistent, early learning trajectory, if nothing else, requires that the entire pre-k – 3 staff (teachers, leaders, and staff) make an explicit commitment to curriculum, planning, and quality.
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The term universal pre-K refers to publicly funded education for 4-year-olds—and, increasingly, 3-year-olds—regardless of income or other eligibility criteria other than age.
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Findings from the report "Homeless Students In America's Public Schools" revealed a tremendous growth in the number of homeless students in Pre K to 28500 in America's public schools.
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It expects to bring in $91 million for the year, which would help fund community school programs, as well as infrastructure projects like libraries, parks and pre-K programs.
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Last year in Florida, 1.5 million, or 43 percent, of all pre-K-12 students attended a school other than the one assigned by the address where they live.
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Joe Biden has said he would work with states to provide pre-K at age 1.83, but he has not offered details, and has not proposed universal child care.
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This disparity has led some cities and states such as Boston and Oklahoma to extend public school offerings to pre-K kids starting at age 4 (or even 3).
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A program in New York City that provides public pre-K for all 4-year-olds has been hailed as one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's clearest political victories.
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Universal pre-K has provided Mr. de Blasio with one of his clearest political wins and perhaps his best shot at the national prominence that he has long sought.
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Last year a prominent national evaluation system rated about 94 percent of the city's pre-K programs at a threshold that would predict positive long-term outcomes for students.
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He spent much of his first year in office working to deliver universal pre-K, and he succeeded; he expanded affordable housing; he cracked down on stop-and-frisk.
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Oklahoma expanded CCDF eligibility and subsidies to include more children and families, and implemented universal pre-K in 1998, among the first states in the nation to do so.
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The former hedge-fund executive Tom Steyer released an education plan that would double federal funding for pre-K and K-12 public education and create free universal prekindergarten.
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Indeed, as publicly funded pre-K expands, the division may be not between academics and play, but between programs with well-trained and well-paid teachers and those without.
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I worked as an administrator in a pre-K-through-8 school in a community of immigrants, many of whom were undocumented, and all of whom were very poor.
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"I can&apost believe we have to remind people of this, but it&aposs GOOD to have classrooms (from pre-k through college) to be socioeconomically integrated," she wrote.
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Other proposals aren't specifically targeted at Latinos, but would benefit Latinos in particular, including his plans to improve access to education from pre-K to college and affordable housing.
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During his tenure as mayor, New York City has installed a "pre-K for all" program, raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, and implemented paid sick leave.
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We have to rethink education, rethink all the different possibilities and how for the get-go, from pre-K on, we start orienting people towards the job of the future.
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Gillibrand has long been vocal about issues of concern to women and families, like equal pay, affordable child care, universal pre-K, paid family leave and a $15 minimum wage.
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While many candidates have promised universal pre-K as part of their 2020 campaigns, de Blasio will likely use this program as proof that he can deliver on this promise.
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Twitter user Ash Leon shared some amazing pictures of her 5-year-old cousin putting her early genius to use by designing her own dress for her pre-K graduation.
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That's the motivation for New York City's recent rollout of wider access to pre-K learning, in one of the largest expansions of the early childhood education in the country.
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In Lost Hills there are new health centers, new pre-K facilities, new housing projects, new gardens, new sidewalks and lights, a new community center and a new soccer field.
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The University of Hawaii's Academy for Creative Media (ACM) will distribute a free copy of the DVD to all accredited schools from pre-K to college, according to NBC News.
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In DC's public pre-K program, most schools use a curriculum called Tools of the Mind, specifically designed to build those skills while also building writing, reading, and math knowledge.
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He's also released a plan to end discrimination against LGBT adoptive and foster care parents in the US. On education:Castro's campaign released an education plan that includes universal pre-K.
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Increasing our kids' pre-K participation will help close that school-readiness gap and put Latino students on equal footing with their classmates at the outset of their academic lives.
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Biden's plan aims to boost pay for teachers, improve mental health care in schools, close gaps in education among various demographic groups and expand pre-K programs across the country.
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A 2017 report from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, making the "Business Case for Child Care," put a fine point on the problem with focusing mainly on formal pre-K.
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"If you're serious about things like offering pre-K to everyone, building affordable housing and helping New Yorkers who need it the most, you cannot unilaterally disarm," Mr. Phillips said.
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We need comprehensive public policies that encourage leaders and practitioners across all sectors — pre-K-12, two-year and four-year institutions, businesses, government agencies and nonprofits — to work together.
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"The Koch brothers are not doing what they're doing to help kids get pre-K," he said, adding that another key difference is that his groups voluntarily disclosed their activities.
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The senator also spoke about using his proposed tax on Wall Street speculation to pay for a wide range of education policies, from universal pre-K to eliminating student debt.
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Studies suggest that developmental gaps begin in the first years of children's lives, and pre-K programs have been shown to improve children's academic, linguistic, and social and emotional development.
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The District augments its local pre-K investment with federal early education dollars through its Head Start program, which is run by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
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Additionally, I have an 8-year-old son who attends public school five days a week, and a 4-year-old son who attends pre-K three days a week.
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Either way it's a $21625 billion loss to the U.S. economy that could pay for pre-K for all low and moderate-income children in the country for 2900 years.
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All 356 pre-K to fifth- grade students, whom the principal refers to as "scholars," live in poverty and 65 percent of them are in foster care or are homeless.
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Ken Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, says training students and teachers in pre-K through high school to run, hide and fight raises ethical and moral questions.
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Universal Pre-K De Blasio has long held up the universal public pre-Kindergarten program in New York City -- which launched in 2014 -- as his most significant legislative success as mayor.
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A randomized controlled trial of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K Program found some effects at the start of kindergarten, but by the end of kindergarten, the other kids had caught up.
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Abrams argued with Deal privately that aid needed to stay in the program for students who don't do well on standardized tests, and getting rid of pre-K was not tenable.
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One of my first priorities as President will be to provide universal pre-K for every child in the United States, as well as universal 3-K and full-day kindergarten.
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This three-in-one sleeper starts as a crib, then turns into a toddler bed and, finally, becomes a headboard for when your little one hits those post-pre-K years.
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Cloe Woods, a Pre-K student in Kenner, Louisiana, went with her class to the Kenner Fire Department in October, according to WLLTV – and what she gleaned was truly life-saving.
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O'Rourke, an unapologetically progressive Democrat who called for Medicaid expansion, responded to Cruz by arguing for an assault weapons ban, pushing for universal pre-K, and decrying the Republican tax cuts.
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Three years ago we sent our daughter to pre-k at the school we had been warned against by well meaning friends who had never actually stepped foot inside the building.
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This means that pre-K, as an early childhood policy, is pointing at the wrong part of the developmental arc; it's adding a second floor before ensuring the foundation is sturdy.
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There's a spot for Gus to stamp on his hand print on the first day of school each year — documenting his progression from Pre-K all the way to 12th grade.
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A 2628 poll conduced for a Maryland-based education advocacy group found that 28500 percent of likely voters in the state favored expanding pre-k to all 6900-year-old children.
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"For so long there's been this inequity of, if you could afford to send your children to pre-K they got a leg up," said the Queens borough president, Melinda Katz.
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The free meals start at an early age, since de Blasio has instituted universal free pre-K for 4-year-olds and is scaling up a program for 3-year-olds.
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But DC shows that quality pre-K starts with significant funding and careful implementation over time while not presenting it as an alternative to funding and reforming K–12 education too.
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He also highlighted city initiatives that aim to improve educational outcomes for all students, like the vastly expanded pre-K program and an increase in Advanced Placement and computer science courses.
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In concert with these efforts, Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York announced last month that 47 more pre-K dual-language programs in city schools will open in the fall.
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Janie Tankard Carnock is a policy analyst with the education policy program at New America where she writes on issues related to educational equity in pre-K through grade 12 education.
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P.S. 203 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, another school that covers pre-K through fifth grade, has 220 students, of whom 21902 percent met state standards in English and 21940 percent in math.
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P.S. 11, the William T. Harris School, is also pre-K through fifth grade and has 921 students, with 67 percent meeting state standards in English and 19023 percent in math.
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These schools receive hundreds of millions of dollars in government funding, through federal programs like Title I and Head Start and state programs like Academic Intervention Services and universal pre-K.
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But I do know Botley the Coding Robot is the most accessible for pre-K and kindergarten-aged kids, and it&aposs the best I&aposve seen at this price range.
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While the at-home, laptop program is not what longtime advocates of universal pre-K imagined (and some fear it could undermine their fight), it may increasingly be what they get.
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As examples, Oklahoma and Georgia have implemented impressive pre-K programs, while South Carolina spends its public dollars (in the form of tax credits) to encourage apprenticeships in the private sector.
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At the Pearls Hawthorne School, also serving pre-K through eighth grade, 72 percent of the 800 students met standards in English in 2016, while 73 percent met standards in math.
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In 2018, about 94 percent of pre-K programs in the city met a standard of quality associated with better school outcomes, the Times reported, up from 77 percent in 2015.
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Background Reading: Ross on Pope Francis, the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal and celibacy in the church David on the growth of pre-K The Times's editorial board on New York City's pre-K program Andrew Sullivan's "The Corruption of the Vatican's Gay Elite Has Been Exposed" and "The Gay Church," in New York magazine I've been an Op-Ed columnist since 2009, and I write about politics, religion, pop culture, sociology and the places where they all intersect.
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The arm injury comes less than a week after the 37-year-old singer proudly posed with Ace, decked out in a blue suit and bow tie, for his pre-K graduation.
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Groups like Make It Work propose going even further — paying child care workers at least $15 an hour and guaranteeing universal pre-K for both 3- and 4-year-olds, for instance.
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Abrams wanted to be able to preserve a full day of pre-K, and, who students who still needed to meet costs, Abrams proposed a 22016% interest loan program to cover costs.
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Some of the solutions involve encouraging parents and communities to vote differently and try to bring about changes like maternity leave across the board, universal Pre-K and 3-K for kids.
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Offer pre-K for 3- and 4-year-olds, increase access to early development professionals and expand home visiting from specialists Go deeper: Joe Biden on the issues, in under 500 words
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As a candidate for president, I'm proposing Pre-K for USA: universal early childhood education for every 3- and 4-year-old in America, funded by grants to state and local governments.
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Warren has said the wealth tax would help fund a number of her progressive proposals, including her plans for universal child care, universal pre-k, student loan forgiveness and universal free college.
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Robert A. Levine, a principal at RAL, said in a statement on Tuesday that the developer had contributed money to the campaign in support of the mayor's work on universal pre-K.
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A Syracuse University analysis finds that the lost revenue from the decline in corporate audits may be as much as $15 billion a year — enough to make full-day pre-K universal.
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"I saw that Donald Trump kicked a crying baby out of an event earlier today," Mr. Kaine said, "so as I'm thinking about pre-K, sometimes you wonder who the baby is."
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Second thing is we invest in our workforce, from pre-K education to great teachers to debt-free college and tuition-free college for families that make less than $125,000 a year.
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"That includes comprehensive student education center for Pre-K through 12th grade, monitored childcare, recreation areas and library, as well as residential complexes each equipped with a 775-foot playroom," they continued.
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Clinton's proposals on this front include universal pre-K, repairing public schools in low-income areas and allowing low-income families to send children to community colleges and public universities tuition-free.
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"The notion that it is initiated by adults who are trying to re-do or un-do old experiences sets the pre-K prom in a less than optimal context," she said.
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Here are excerpts of what a handful of parents, teachers and students of pre-k – 12 had to say about how race and diversity are being discussed in schools and at home.
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Mr. Condon said that some of that increase came from the advent of universal pre-K, which has brought more students — and, given their age, particularly vulnerable students — under the office's purview.
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The work starts as early as pre-K, when a teacher might point out to the class that she is drawing a heart next to a phrase because it is her favorite.
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He supports universal pre-K and wants to make college more affordable (in part by offering what he calls "profit-free loans") but has not called for universal loan forgiveness like Sens.
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In 22015-'212, that worked out to more than 212,000 children — for comparison, note that across the state of New York, just 3,721 3-year-olds were enrolled in public pre-K.
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This makes it easier to tailor a campus's pre-K program with older grades, which helps campus leaders align schedules, curricula, and instruction from early education through the end of elementary school.
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Given the range of changes in DC — shifting student demographics, major K–12 reforms, and the advent of universal pre-K — it's hard to know precisely which change is driving which gains.
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Others suggested ending funding for pre-K education, cutting government jobs, taxing groceries, ceasing road maintenance, or quadrupling property taxes for farmers, a proposal that residents said would make them move away.
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That figure would nearly triple the funding level of Colorado's state pre-K program—which can currently serve fewer than half of eligible children—while reserving hundreds of millions for reducing emissions.
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During the presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton championed an early childhood education platform that called for universal pre-K and a cap on child-care costs at 10 percent of a family's income.
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The resulting system would keep families from paying more than 7 percent of their incomes for full-day child care and pre-K for children up to five, according to Buttigieg's campaign.
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Allies of Mr. Castro praise him for implementing a full-day pre-K program when he was mayor that was funded by increasing the sales tax by an eighth of a cent.
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Students in the pre-K at Hellenic Classical Charter School, in South Park Slope, Brooklyn, mainly Hispanic and African-American, are introduced to Greek language and culture through song, dance, history and art.
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After more than a decade in Congress, Pence was elected as Indiana's chief executive in 2012, where he oversaw tax cuts and signed into law the first state funding for pre-K education.
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Last February, I took the L train to Brownsville for McCray's visit to FirstStepNYC, a model pre-K school that is the brainchild of Laura Ensler, an educational consultant and the school's founder.
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The lack of family leave, universal child care/pre-K, and a child allowance combine to make having children a considerably more expensive endeavor, especially for poor families, in the US than abroad.
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Not by the barrage of homework or the eighth graders who loom above her in the shared hallways, but by the effort of being kind, as she has been taught since pre-K.
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Scaling up pre-K hasn't hurt its quality, either; about 94% of the programs met or exceeded a threshold that predicts positive student development outcomes in 2018 -- up from just 77% in 2015.
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Funding from the Administration for Children's Services or Head Start makes it possible for lower-income children to attend pre-K programs that offer additional hours of child care beyond the regular day.
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Meanwhile, Gillibrand ran through a laundry list of progressive issues she backs: ending mass incarceration and institutional racism, getting money out of politics, and achieving paid leave, universal pre-K and pay equity.
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Multiple reports from the National Academy of Sciences recommend a four-year college degree for pre-K teachers to provide children the best start possible -- and provide taxpayers the best return on investment.
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The National Institute for Early Education Research's analysis finds that in some states pre-K teachers with a bachelor's degree earn more than $10,000 less per year than colleagues teaching slightly older children.
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We're a group of 32 Democrats and Republicans who aim to highlight the benefits of early childhood education and promote policy recommendations to expand high-quality pre-K access in the United States.
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"From this moment on in New York City, everyone is guaranteed the right to health care," said de Blasio, comparing it to the universal pre-K program his administration implemented several years ago.
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The New York City Health Department said in a statement that it had temporarily closed the school, the Center for Family Services, which is a part of the city's universal pre-K program.
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In addition to free pre-K, he's increased the minimum wage for city workers to $15 an hour, expanded a law mandating paid sick leave and set a record in financing affordable housing.
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What if DC universal pre-K primarily benefits middle- and upper-middle-class parents who can afford three years of paying for (more expensive) child care in return for long-term care savings?
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From pre-K to graduate studies, there is a move toward holistic language education, based on the notion that learning a language should be grounded in the real, everyday use of that language.
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To pay for his "free child care and pre-K for all" plan, Sanders plans to tax those with "extreme wealth" over $32 million, which would raise about $4.35 trillion over 10 years.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan Monday to provide universal child care and pre-K, the broadest proposal yet from the 2020 Democratic presidential field to address a key issue for the party.
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Governors championed loftier goals and graduation standards for students, higher standards and improved professional development for teachers, additional funding for pre-K and college, revamped student assessments, and stricter accountability for poor performance.
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The "stay within the lines" pre-K enrolls mainly middle-class youngsters, whose parents pay to send them there, while Ms. Rojas's classroom is in a public school in a poor immigrant community.
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Two years later, New York City enrolls more children in full-day pre-K than any state except Georgia, and its preschool enrollment exceeds the total number of students in San Francisco or Boston.
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The popular policies -- like universal pre-K and raising the minimum wage -- have mostly disappeared from the headlines, which have focused on speculation over potential fundraising scandals and stories about the mayor's commuting habits.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand released an ambitious family-oriented proposal Wednesday, tackling a wide range of issues that include investments in maternal and child health, paid family leave, affordable child care, and universal pre-K.
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A Connecticut mom captured the moment her 8-year-old son Derek congratulated her 5-year-old daughter Charlee after her Pre-K graduation and the image is making the rounds on social media.
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"The children were busy preparing for our Pre-K graduation when Lucas received the call that he got the transplant," Laurie Archambault, a staffer at the Hellenic American Academy in Lowell, Massachusetts, tells PEOPLE.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 40, shared a series of selfies of herself and her 4-year-old daughter Kaia on Thursday, noting that she can't believe that Kaia is starting pre-K.
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The best way for them to do that and have the same opportunities as kids from wealthier families who could afford early education classes was to enroll in a quality public pre-K program.
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Her plans—which include moving toward universal pre-K, increasing funding for Head Start, and limiting child care costs to 10 percent of family income—would be a major improvement over the status quo.
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By providing public access, wider enrollment in pre-K has created and added benefit for the families of young children, allowing parents who would otherwise have to stay home to go back to work.
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And there is precious little evidence that boosts from pre-k are then followed by boosts in kindergarten, first, and second grades – the kind of cumulative impact that produces lasting increases in academic achievement.
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Radinsky hit the bigs in 290, pitching as a LOOGY and notching a 298-250 record (2000 ERA+ notwithstanding) in the same bullpen as Bobby Thigpen during his pre-K-Rod save-record season.
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" Dr. Ainslie did not see an inherent problem with the notion of proms for such young children, telling Broadly, "Pre-K children are all about pretending and so their involvement with dresses, limos, etc.
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State and local governments can help businesses without access to finance survive and expand, provide worker training that is valuable to residents and companies, and invest in traditional education from pre-K to college.
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The plan also includes investing $150 billion to update school facilities for pre-K through high school and imparting a federal tax credit that would increase teacher pay by up to $10,000 per year.
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The site also houses a Universal pre-K program, part of Mayor de Blasio's effort to provide free prekindergarten to all New York City 4-year-olds, but Elijah was not a UPK student.
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Their coach for more than half of last season was an assistant, Luke Walton, who later moved 370 miles to the south to oversee the pre-K experience that is the Los Angeles Lakers.
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She supports a $15-an-hour minimum wage, universal pre-K for low-income families, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a public option, and expanding community college access for low-income individuals.
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Fortunately, the issue has generated intense debate among Democratic presidential candidates, with ideas ranging from universal pre-K, support for the Child Care for Working Families Act, to government-funded childcare and early education.
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Up to 10 students attending the school, which describes itself online as "the school of the United Nations" and runs from pre-K to 12th grade, will reportedly be able to attend the tour.
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" But, he went on, "we also have the example of pre-K to fuel this effort, to prove what can be done on a big scale and to prove what an impact it makes.
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation found that investments made in the first four to six years of school (including pre-K) produced a long-term return to society of $8.24 for every $1 invested.
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When the Georgetown researchers began their study, Tulsa spent about $10,000, in 2017 dollars, for a full-day pre-K slot for a child (and roughly half that amount for a half-day slot).
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Castro also wants to reform K-12 education, expand access to kindergarten and pre-K programs, and invest in all teachers, using tax credits to increase teacher pay by up to $10,000 per year.
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She whips out a shiv when she's asked by one of her cellmates if she is Aunt Becky and explains that she's already bribed the guards by getting their kids into competitive pre-K schools.
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And he'd direct the savings from less incarceration at the federal level, along with additional federal money, to boost spending on education (including universal pre-K), mental health care, addiction treatment, and other social services.
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Hannah Brown, from the Laconia neighborhood in the Bronx, is a grandmother of three children, all of whom went to private day care because universal pre-K in New York didn't exist at the time.
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Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, also running in the Democratic presidential primary, released an education plan in May, calling for tuition-free public colleges and a federally funded pre-K program.
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To accommodate the surging population, P.S. 8 had turned its drama and dance rooms into general classrooms and cut its pre-K, but it still had to place up to 28 kids in each class.
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On the west, and stretching back to the High Line, is Avenues, which opened in 2012, a onetime slaughterhouse converted into an elite pre-K-12 private school, with annual tuition running at $40,000-plus.
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"It will bring tons of jobs to the community, at least 50 employees for the two health care programs and 33 employees for early childhood and pre-K," said Martin Dunn, president of the company.
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Some New Yorkers praise him for establishing Eid as a holiday in public schools, signing a law forcing employers to give workers paid sick days, and expanding universal free pre-K (perhaps his biggest accomplishment).
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The push for high-quality universal pre-K for four-year-olds, now embraced by a growing number of political and thought leaders, is strangely isolated from the movement supporting child care for working mothers.
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Kathryn Vaughn, an art instructor in Tennessee who teaches about 800 children from pre-K to fifth grade, sent The Times photos of the dried-out markers she soaked to make watercolors for her students.
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Last year, I swelled with pride upon hearing her explain to a pre-K classmate that while a sock puppet was bequeathed to her by Santa Claus, the huge dollhouse came courtesy of Hanukkah Harry.
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"A lot of the things that de Blasio has been successful around, such as his emphasis on affordable housing and universal pre-K, those were things that Dinkins pushed for very hard," Mr. Thompson said.
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Bill is a leading example of what bringing the Democratic Party together around so-called 'radical ideas' like universal pre-K, paid family and sick leave, and defending immigrant neighbors can do for our country.
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With his re-election campaign on the horizon, Mr. de Blasio recently announced a further expansion, which would offer free pre-K to all 3-year-olds by 2021 — but the funding plan remains unknown.
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So far, though, Washington's example does suggest that a universal, full-day, well-funded, school-based, developmentally-appropriate, holistic pre-K program can improve children's lives — if the public is patient, and willing to pay.
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So far, though, Washington's example does suggest that a universal, full-day, well-funded, school-based, developmentally-appropriate, holistic pre-K program can improve children's lives — if the public is patient, and willing to pay.
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We passed the strongest equal pay bill and the first fair work week law in the nation, made major strides in criminal justice reform, and prioritized funding for public education, from pre-K through college.
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De Blasio during his campaign touted his progressive record and accomplishments in New York, including starting universal pre-K, expanding sick leave, reducing stop-and-frisk policing, and increasing the city's minimum wage to $15.
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Feminist organizers have focused more on equal pay and paid parental leave, while education reformers have rarely emphasized the period between birth and pre-K enrollment — even though those years are crucial for cognitive development.
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Warren's plan is audacious in part because it addresses the gap between proposals that have been floated for parental leave -- which concern newborns -- and universal pre-K, which centers on kids who are preschool aged.
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The pair's website outlines a number of issues they say they'll address or support if elected, including a number of par-for-the-course Democratic items — universal pre-K, free community college, and clean energy.
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Tylyia, a bespectacled and precocious nearly 21-year-old, started pre-K at a DPS program housed inside a former traditional public school that had been renamed and turned into a charter school the year before.
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"Knowing that my kids will be going to school in Georgia makes the picture book that I'm doing for the 25th birthday celebration of this amazing Pre-K program so special and rewarding," Bowles tells PEOPLE.
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In a new Instagram snapshot posted Wednesday, Bruce Willis and wife Emma's adorable daughters Evelyn Penn, 4, and Mabel Ray, 6, are too cute posing on their first day of pre-K and first grade, respectively.
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Trump displays a pristine ignorance of almost every major issue of our time, while Clinton is steeped in the details of every issue from pre-K education to the clear and present dangers of global warming.
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She supports the Green New Deal, universal pre-K, free college, protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients, a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, gun reform, increasing abortion access, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
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He claimed the city desperately needed additional money to expand pre-K programs and to pay for renovations to city rec centers, though he hadn't thought of it during the decades he sat on City Council.
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This openness to new public-private approaches focusing on results is as much a characteristic of of New York City's Pre-K For All as it is for universal preschool in Price's home state of Georgia.
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Dana Balter, running on Medicare-for-all and universal pre-K, prevailed in the New York 24th District — 87 percent white, central New York — over Juanita Perez Williams, the establishment's handpicked choice in the Democratic primary.
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Rising superpowers are making significant commitments to expand access to early education over the next few years, with China promising to have pre-K for every 4-year-old and most 3-year-olds by 2020.
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I read his book "Kitchen Confidential" shortly after college, after working as a grill man in a Mississippi kitchen with enough drama and substance abuse to feel like a pre-K version of a Bourdainian milieu.
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In terms of solutions, improving the quality of and access to education — from pre-K to post-grad — still seems the best way to combat these issues, he said, but "education is not the silver bullet."
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Josh Wallack, deputy chancellor of strategy and policy at the city's Education Department, said that during the first year of universal pre-K expansion, there were different application processes for district schools and community-based organizations.
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One of the biggest achievements of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first term was the creation of universal pre-K for 4-year-olds, a program that took much pressured, fast-paced planning on the mayor's part.
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Someone on the left who wants to increase upward mobility will advocate for things like universal health care and pre-K while someone on the right will advocate for things like low taxes and corporate incentives.
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So when the offer came last summer to take a job as the superintendent of George Washington Carver Academy, a pre-K-123 charter school in Highland Park, Brown thrilled at the chance to come home.
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"We recognize that there are challenges with an implementation like this, but we've done it before with pre-K, and we are going to collaborate with all the providers to get this done," Mr. Wallack said.
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Other countries provide new parents with extensive paid leave, provide high-quality, subsidized day care for children with working parents and make pre-K available to everyone or almost everyone; we do none of these things.
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In May, she released a plan for a "Family Bill of Rights" tackling a wide range of issues that include investments in maternal and child health, paid family leave, affordable child care, and universal pre-K.
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In response to audience questions, Castro gave fairly predictable answers for a progressive Democrat: He supports universal pre-K and "Medicare for All," favors the Green New Deal, and wants to see the Mueller report released.
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Warren's presence onstage also spoke to the momentum she's picked up in recent polls and the leadership she's established across a number of policy areas ranging from her detailed plans on universal pre-k to housing.
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That's comparable to preschool spending in other states that make strong investments in quality pre-K, but that amount per year is considerably less than what the average school district spends on a grade-school student.
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In addition to helping secure health insurance for 400,00 people, Northam has vowed to increase the minimum wage for state residents to $403, to dramatically reduce college costs for students, and to create pre-K programs.
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Gillibrand's new platform, something she's calling the Family Bill of Rights, includes measures aimed at making child care more affordable, as well as policies that would give more children access to health care and pre-K.
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The pilot program will allow her once again to give priority to low-income students after siblings and current pre-K students, helping to lure back some of the families for whom the school was originally designed.
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Her comments come a day after Warren unveiled a plan that would quadruple federal Title I funding for public schools, which includes an additional $450 billion over the next 10 years for pre-K-12 public schools.
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As far as being the first black male pre-K teacher of the year, he hopes the opportunity inspires other men to get inside the classroom and make a difference, and not just leave it to coaches.
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"There is simply no basis to conclude that requiring Success to comply with these requirements of program quality would result in Success's inability to operate its pre-K programs," the spokeswoman, Devora Kaye, said in an email.
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Issues related to child care, like universal Pre-K and maternal leave, are important to quality of life for younger generations, but there are several intersecting issues like gun reform and immigrants' rights that also factor in.
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Home-based child care programs, center-based care, state-funded Pre-K, and so many others can offer high-quality early education and development experiences that will provide the foundation for a lifetime of learning and success.
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Fortunately, there is a playbook that policymakers can follow to achieve this goal, primarily by breaking down the regulatory barriers that prevent our pre-K and K-3 educators from delivering integrated, aligned curricula for young children.
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We need to raise taxes to invest in infrastructure and in increasing the capacities of our work force, starting with universal pre-K, so every citizen has the tools to adapt to the accelerating pace of change.
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And in the first few days of his presidential campaign, Castro heavily touted his work as San Antonio mayor when voters in 2012 approved "Pre-K for [San Antonio]," which was covered by a sales tax increase.
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Children are making over a million neural connections per second in the earliest months in life, and there is now a scientific consensus that brain architecture is being built long, long before a child enters pre-K.
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Mr. Trump (who once boasted that he never changed a diaper, which could explain why he married two Eastern Europeans) said a year ago that he was skeptical of paid family leave and opposed universal pre-K.
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Campaign For One New York pursued progressive policy goals like universal pre-K and affordable housing by taking money from powerful people and funneling it through the nonprofit to allegedly grant moneymen influence while skirting the law.
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In the moderate-to-severe early childhood (Pre-K) classrooms I worked in for close to a decade, the structure was such that most, if not all, activities were augmented by a heavy dose of adult support.
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In the book, she said that she "secured" the system that preserved a partial scholarship for B students, pushed for a new low-interest college loan program, and was able to preserve the full pre-K program.
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The Roman Catholic parish school — which educates students in pre-K through 8th grade — has removed all seven volumes of J.K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter series from its library, the Nashville Tennessean reports, due to its content.
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For instance, Washington state, which began its public pre-K program in 26.5, enrolls fewer 212- and 212-year-olds combined than DC, even though the state's public school system is 23 times the size of DC's.
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In this polarized era, a GOP House is likely to be a real constraint that makes it difficult for Clinton to deliver on her pledges of universal pre-K or tuition-free college for middle-class students.
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Axel Johnson, 4, caught the first-day jitters on his bus ride to Pre-K in Augusta, Wisconsin, but his bus driver, Isabel Lane, showed him the ropes of the bus and took him under her wing.
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And the potential for a shooting is apparent for any group of students, whether they're in middle school or as young as 4, said Katie Norton, a pre-K teacher with the District of Columbia Public Schools.
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In Boston, for instance, she highlights a mother hoping her child will win a lottery to attend Eliot K-8 Innovation School, a premier school with only 32 coveted seats in its pre-K program, called K1.
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Tell it to the activists who fought for a public option on health care, who sought gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting, who tried to pass cap and trade and universal pre-k.
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"Knowing that my kids will be going to school in Georgia makes the picture book that I'm doing for the 25th birthday celebration of this amazing Pre-K program so special and rewarding," Bowles told PEOPLE in November.
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The CPBB reports that during those years, Nevada reduced per-pupil state funding for pre-K students by 39.5% (about $1,448 after adjusting for inflation) and the student-to-teacher ratio in Nevada rose from 18.3 to 21.2.
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"He wants to make sure ideas like pre-K for all, paid personal time and mental health are on the table as Democrats debate the party's vision for the future," de Blasio's communications director Mike Casca told Politico.
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A pre-K curriculum should be based in hands-on, exploratory play, include lots of exposure to books and rich discussions, and have ample opportunity for teachers to adjust the topics and lessons to children's needs and interests.
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One daughter is in public elementary school, and the youngest is wait-listed for free public pre-K, which will be a relief because the family is currently paying more than $13,000 a month for preschool and aftercare.
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De Blasio mentioned the New York universal pre-K program in a video announcing his presidential candidacy, but has not yet released a formal child care plan for his presidential campaign or responded to Vox's request for comment.
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In 2013, she delivered a speech laying out her economic plan aimed at promoting women in the work force that included proposals for equal pay, paid leave, affordable child care, universal pre-K and raising the minimum wage.
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Less than two weeks before Charlottesville High students walked out of class, students at New York's Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a private pre-K-12 school in the Bronx, held a "lock-in" to protest racism on campus.
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It falls largely in line with the mayor's "tale of two cities" agenda, which has long called on New York's highest-earners to pay for social equity programs, like universal pre-K and affordable housing for senior citizens.
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In Pre K-53 education, for example, only 19 percent of black students are proficient in 4th grade math, compared to 62 percent of Asian students, according to the U.S. Department of Education's 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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He's put forward immigration and housing policy, believes in a host of progressive ideas (like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and universal pre-K) and is running on his executive experience both as mayor and at HUD.
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Operationally, Harriet Green said IBM employees will be working alongside the Sesame Workshop team in its New York City office to figure out what's possible and wanted in the pre-K education market over a period of three years.
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UPK evangelists claim that if we could just make sure every four-year old enrolled in pre-K, widespread achievement gaps would disappear and all children, including our least advantaged, would thrive as they graduate successfully from high school.
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His slate of achievements — universal pre-K, a rent freeze, ending "stop and frisk" policing while keeping crime down — put him on the 2020 map (even if his forays onto the national political scene haven't yielded much positive attention).
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Funding levels for everything will be on the table, including the successful Pre-K program Head Start, Title I funding for schools (including resources for children with disabilities), child care, nutrition assistance, juvenile justice programs and child welfare services.
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His proposals to guarantee free child care and pre-K and six months of paid parental leave, for example, are common-sensical in many other countries, and foregrounding them could win over "anxious suburbanites" who lean toward Mr. Biden.
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Against some real opposition, we achieved a series of things in New York, whether you're talking about pre-K for all, our massive affordable housing program or things like a rent freeze, which we had the power to do.
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When you consider, he says, that the city already spends a total of $25 billion for its whole school system, from pre-K to 12th grade, adding an entire grade for a billion dollars looks like a relative bargain.
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All indications are that she will seek to barrel full-speed ahead from day one on "free" college, tax increases, expanding Obamacare and the federal role in pre-K education, and unapologetically applying progressive litmus tests to judicial appointees.
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As he did last weekend, Sanders pushed his ambitious agenda, including the expansion of health care to every American, the creation of a universal pre-K system and a hike in the federal minimum wage to $22017 an hour.
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We were in her office in East New York, a large set of older but tidy rooms full of fliers about immigration, how to sign up for pre-K and how to find a job if you are on parole.
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In each of McCray's speeches that I attended, she spoke about pre-K as part of a solution to income inequality and poverty; according to her, it was the most logical, immediate next step in the struggle for civil rights.
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The largest spending increases and expanded tax preferences in the Obama budget are for clean energy and transportation, expanded child care and pre-K education, grants for college completion, reform of unemployment insurance and the creation of a wage insurance program.
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Patty Murray of Washington state and her colleagues introduced a bill last fall that would offer states money to implement universal pre-K and increase child care subsidies, while the Congressional Progressive Caucus's budget calls for child care for all.
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In the coming years, we should build on that progress, by providing Pre-K for all and offering every student... (APPLAUSE) ... offering every student the hands-on computer science and math classes that make them job-ready on day one.
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That means they can be more complicated to please with a tech product, and that companies venturing into the pre-K market must invest in expertise around compliance to all local, state and federal laws even from their earliest days.
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Whether Medicaid is expanded, whether we get high-quality pre-K, whether we tackle addiction, family planning and job training, whether lead continues to poison American children — all these will depend mostly on Republicans who control Congress and most states.
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"Universal pre-K is so important for working parents," she said, seated in the library of the Little Star of Broome Street Early Childhood Center in Manhattan, where her son is enrolled in a low-cost program for 213-year-olds.
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This includes universal pre-K, free access to two years and some four-year colleges, paid family leave, subsidized child care, higher minimum wages, a commitment to full employment, and robust investments in infrastructure and scientific research, especially around clean energy.
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This is the new normal A few weeks ago, Cohen said their daughter came home, excited to share a fun game she played with her pre-K class: try to stay quiet for one whole minute, just like during a lockdown.
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Only a small percentage are so low in quality that they might actually be harmful to children, but most are mediocre (only a few states have publicly funded, universal voluntary pre-K programs that offer service to all 4-year-olds).
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Boston Public Schools, for example, have invested heavily in coaching for new pre-K teachers, to help them implement the curriculum, brainstorm solutions to challenges and speed up the process of incorporating new research and mastering the techniques of veteran educators.
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The revenue from the sugary drink tax will go for pre-K, for what they call community schools — which is providing services for children so they can stay in school and learn — and for rebuilding the city's parks and recreation centers.
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" 💰"We're making a several hundred million dollar investment ... so an additional 10,000 children are able to attend pre-k programs, that every single family has access to home visitations, and so there's affordable and accessible daycare throughout the entire state.
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For that trillion-dollar price tag, President Obama could establish his universal pre-K plan, make community college free and college debt free, double NIH research, fully repeal the non-defense sequester after 2017, and fully fund the Highway Trust Fund.
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But before de Blasio and Cuomo well and fully fell out, de Blasio managed to push through his universal pre-K plan, enrolling some 20163,22016 children in over two years, equivalent to three-quarters of the entire population of South Bend.
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In New Jersey, "All pre-K through grade 12 schools (public, private, and parochial) and all colleges and universities will close effective Wednesday, March 18th until it's deemed by health officials to be safe for in-person classes to resume," Gov.
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"I want to start with a tale of audacity," Mr. de Blasio said, sounding more amiable than audacious, before ticking off his administration's accomplishments, which included universal pre-K, two rent freezes and free legal counsel for people facing eviction.
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Ms. Johnson ordered several policy changes amid the 2014 settlement, including a moratorium on suspensions for students in pre-K through first grade for nonviolent offenses, and she pledged to personally review referrals to suspend minority students for nonviolent offenses.
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But while DC schools remain a political football for education reform's national supporters and critics, the city's biggest education experiment has stayed mostly out of sight: Since 2008, the District has been building the country's most comprehensive universal pre-K program.
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In 23, about 33 percent of the city's prekindergarten programs met or exceeded a threshold that predicts positive student outcomes after pre-K, according to a national evaluation system, the Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale, developed by a coalition of experts.
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That Title I money would also go toward closing "the funding gap between white and nonwhite districts, and rich and poor districts," the campaign said, as well as expanding access to universal pre-K for students ages 3 and 4.
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The study used the Zillow Rent Index to determine "typical" local rents, and data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey to determine the salaries of local public schoolteachers from pre-K up to high school, including special-education teachers.
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He's insisted that universal coverage for things like pre-K, Medicare, and college education — policies I believe in, which would guarantee coverage to every individual, regardless of their marital or employment status — isn't only financially impossible, but wasteful and unnecessary.
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Also in the top 10 best states for: higher education, employment, affordability and energy Also in the top 10 best states for: health care access, public health, pre-k through 12 education, business environment, employment, economic opportunity, corrections and natural environment.
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"Pre-K and paid sick days are universal; crime is at record lows; jobs are at a record high; and New York City is building affordable housing at a record pace," said Dan Levitan, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio's campaign.
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Nearby, in the Blue Room, tabletop Christmas trees made of yellow school pencils and red and green crayons — a wink to Mayor Bill de Blasio's Pre-K for All program — sit atop a table in the center of the room.
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People love to hear that the president wants to spend money to give them jobs in tough economic times, to make the rich pay their fair shares, to help their young kids get to pre-K without paying exorbitant tuition.
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Building off the success of a pre-kindergarten program he introduced as mayor, Castro has promised to pursue "pre-K for the USA" should he become the next president, and has released detailed proposals for overhauling both policing and immigration.
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The mayor-elect, who was also the county's first Black probate judge and is the son of the longtime leader of the Alabama Democratic Party's Black caucus, has promised to invest in public transportation, address food deserts, and champion universal pre-K.
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Some students in the lower West 80s are zoned for P.S. 87 William T. Sherman on West 78th Street, where about 855 students are in Grades pre-K through 5; 73 percent met state standards in English and 1003 percent in math.
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Biden's plan draws clear lines on how that money should be used: Teachers should get a raise, 3- and 4-year-olds should get access to pre-K, and rigorous coursework (such as Advanced Placement classes) should be available at all schools.
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Later, he spoke with great passion about his work as San Antonio mayor in creating one of the nation's earliest universal pre-K programs, displaying command of the relevant research and a somewhat distinctive perspective about prioritizing early childhood investments over higher education.
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She explained that plan Monday night, simply and with enthusiasm: two cents from every qualifying dollar would net us universal child care and pre-K, tuition-free college, and student debt forgiveness, with a trillion dollars left over to keep fixing stuff.
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But even in Republican-heavy Texas, O'Rourke has campaigned as though he were running for election in a Democratic state; he's called for Medicaid expansion, argued for an assault weapons ban, pushed for universal pre-K, and decried the GOP tax cuts.
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