Last week, Winning Beginning NY, the Alliance for Quality Education, and Citizen Action of New York released Frozen Funding Leads to Cracks in the Foundation. The report recommends that the State invest more in high-quality early learning and development programs such as Pre-K, Kindergarten, and child care.
The full report can be found here. A summary of the press coverage received surrounding the report’s release can be found here.
Additional Highlights
The report, Early Childhood Education: Frozen Funding Leads to Cracks in the Foundation, calls on the legislature to reprogram $53 million from the competitive grants proposed in the Executive Budget to Universal Pre-Kindergarten, allowing for up to 14,000 more children to have access to the program. The report also calls on the Legislature to adopt the $93 million included in the Executive Budget for child care funding, to ensure that children of low-income working parents are able to receive subsidies.
Please feel free to share the report and use it in your advocacy efforts.
Sincerely,
Jessica
Policy Associate
(518) 690-4217 ex. 32
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