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Recent Media Coverage
Head Start Providers Stand to Lose Funding | 02.21.2012
Education Week
Concerns are mounting that strict new federal rules meant to improve the quality of Head Start preschool services for poor children could drive good providers out of business, as scores of Head Start programs begin to face the specter of losing the federal funding they have received for decades. more
Letter: Keep a full budget for early education | 02.20.2012
Petaluma360.com
Research confirms what I know from experience: high quality early education is one of the best ways to keep kids in school, on track towards graduation and away from crime. more
Barnidge: The not-quite-ready Kindergarten Readiness Act | 02.19.2012
Contra Costa Times
"This gives those kids the opportunity to still have a place in K-12 education, so they don't lose out on what they would have been getting," said Pam Comfort, county associate superintendent for Education Services. more
Recent Press Releases
Long Beach Unified School District Parents, Educators, Business and Civic Leaders Rally for Full Implementation of Transitional Kindergarten | 02.07.2012
Long Beach, CA – February 7 – Long Beach Unified School District Superintendent Christopher J. Steinhauser today led community educators, parents, grandparents, business and civic leaders in a rally opposing Gov. Brown’s budget proposal to eliminate transitional kindergarten and thus deny up to 125,000 children the right to attend public school. more
California Superintendents Call for Full Implementation of Transitional Kindergarten | 01.31.2012
Small School District Association Joins Preschool California, California Federation of Teachers, California Kindergarten Teachers’ “Save Kindergarten” Campaign to Rally Against Budget Proposal to Eliminate Transitional Kindergarten. more
California Federation of Teachers Opposes the Proposal to Eliminate Transitional Kindergarten, Blocking 125,000 Children from Public Education | 01.26.2012
Sacramento, CA -- Today the California Federation of Teachers, representing over 120,000 educational employees working at every level of the education system in California, voiced its opposition to the budget proposal to eliminate transitional kindergarten, which would block 125,000 children from public education. more
Kindergarten Teachers, Early Education Advocates Alert Parents to Implications of Gov. Brown's Proposal to Bar 125,000 Children from Kindergarten | 01.13.2012
Santa Clara, CA - In the first organized gathering of early childhood advocates since Governor Brown released his budget last week, the California Kindergarten Association, State Senator Joe Simitian (D- Palo Alto) and Preschool California alerted parents and early childhood education advocates to the implications of Gov. Brown’s proposal to kick 125,000 kindergarten-aged children out of public school classrooms. more
Governor Brown Proposes Kicking 125,000 Students Out of Kindergarten | 01.06.2012
Sacramento, CA – January 6, 2012 – In his 2012-13 budget proposal released yesterday, Gov. Jerry Brown called for kicking 125,000 kindergarteners out of California’s public school system, denying 1 out of 4 kindergarten students access to public education. This proposal would mark the largest number of students ever removed from public school classrooms in U.S. history. more
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