What's New
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Watch Children's Movement of Florida's New TV Commercial
The Children's Movement of Florida just released its first TV commercial. This commercial invites both candidates for governor to participate in this first ever debate devoted exclusively to children's needs. The debate will be held on Oct. 16 at the University of Miami. Watch the video below! Read more...
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PreK-3rd: How Superintendents Lead Change
FCD has recently published a new Policy to Action Brief by Geoff Marietta, PreK-3rd: How Superintendents Lead Change. The brief focuses on the integral work that superintendents play in implementing PreK-3rd. Read more...
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Children of Immigrants: New Reports
Young Children of Immigrants The number of young children of immigrants from PreK-3rd Grade has nearly doubled since 1990. A new report from The Urban Institute, “Young Children of Immigrants: The Leading Edge of America’s Future,” highlights the conditions of young children growing up in immigrant families. Read more...
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The recession's toll on children
Low-income children are more likely to develop cognitive deficits, undermining their chances for successful lives. New psychological interventions could help protect them.By Amy NovotneySeptember 2010, Vol 41, No. 8Excerpt from article: More than one in five American children now live in poverty, the highest rate in two decades, and one that surpasses that of most other industrialized nations, according to a June report from the nonprofit Foundation for Child Development. Read more... -
PreK-3rd Shows Results
PreK-3rd in MCPS A new report from the Foundation for Child Development and Pre-K Now, “Lessons in Early Learning: Building an Integrated Pre-K-12 System in Montgomery County Public Schools,” describes how Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) in Maryland used local and federal dollars to craft and implement a district-wide education reform strategy built on aligning high-quality PreK with its K-12 system. Read more...
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The Demographic Impacts of Repealing Birthright Citizenship
Here's a new report from our grantee Michael Fix and FCD Young Scholar Jennifer Van Hook.From the press release: WASHINGTON — Repeal of birthright citizenship for the U.S.-born children of unauthorized immigrants would expand the unauthorized population by at least 5 million over the next four decades using conservative demographic assumptions, according to a new Migration Policy Institute (MPI) report. Read more...
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Florida gubernatorial debate to focus on children
By Sergio R. Bustos. The first ever gubernatorial debate to focus solely on the future of Florida's children will be held next month at the University of Miami and organizers expect both Democrat Alex Sink and Republican Rick Scott to participate. Working as partners with UM, the Children's Movement of Florida said Wednesday they will host the Oct. 16 debate, which will be broadcast statewide on television and on the Internet. Read more...
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Seattle Superintendent Endorses PreK-3rd as Powerful Way to Improve Schools
Seattle public schools chief Maria Goodloe-Johnson gave the PreK-3rd movement a boost today, endorsing a move to a PreK-12 system as the most powerful step education policymakers could take. “I believe that the single most powerful change we’re going to make…the one that’s going to have the largest and most long lasting impact on our kids…is to switch us from a K-12 system to a PreK-12 system,” Goodloe-Johnson said in draft speaking points to be delivered at an event in Seattle today. Read more... -
PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle
A new FCD Policy to Action Brief, PreK-3rd: Putting Full-Day Kindergarten in the Middle, calls for Full-Day-Kindergarten (FDK) to be an integral part of a 21st Century P-20 education system. Read more... -
Preschool extras are another casualty of Christie budget
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board. It’s yet another casualty of Gov. Chris Christie’s veto of a tax on millionaires: Thanks to a state budget cut, some of New Jersey’s poorest families will no longer be eligible for the extra hours of day care they rely on to send their children to preschool. Read more... - Page 16 of 19:
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