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Vallejo district expands transitional kindergarten | 03.07.2013
Vallejo Times-Herald
More of Vallejo's youngest students can get a head start at school next year.
That's when the Vallejo City Unified School District plans to double the number of transitional kindergarten classes it offers, from three to six. more
Jon Stewart ridicules preschool critics | 03.07.2013
Washington Post
Take six minutes and 12 seconds to watch this. Jon Stewart continues to be the best critic of silly education thinking with this “Daily Show” piece about the stupidity of some of the criticism of the idea of government support for high-quality preschool for all kids, an idea President Obama advanced in his State of the Union speech. more
Obama Preschool Proposal Focuses on States, Not the Feds, Providing Pre-K | 03.05.2013
Huffington Post
The Obama Administration continues to spotlight the President's preschool proposal, stressing that the plan is for the federal government to help support state-funded programs, not create a new federal program. more
Our View: Cuts to preschool are troublesome | 03.05.2013
Imperial Valley Press Online
The devastation to kindergarten through 12th-grade and community college education has been chronicled heavily throughout the state, but the same cannot be said, we think, for early childhood education. more
Rotary Club of Oakland donates books to transitional kindergarten classes | 03.05.2013
The Oakland Tribune
The Rotary Club of Oakland delivered hundreds of books on Tuesday to transitional kindergarten classes in Oakland Unified schools, serving more than 200 children. more
Head Start administrators get little guidance on impact of sequester | 02.26.2013
EdSource Today
Just weeks after President Barack Obama proposed a massive expansion of preschool in his State of the Union address, Head Start administrators are bracing for sequester cuts that could reduce enrollments by thousands of children. more
California creates new school grade to ease 4-year-olds into kindergarten | 02.25.2013
89.3 KPCC
As the public education system becomes more rigorous and standardized, its effect is creeping down to the littlest students. If you think back to your own Kindergarten days, you might remember singing and puppet shows and smearing paint with your fingers to create art. Today kindergarten is more academic, resulting in more struggling children. To remedy this, California has implemented a new grade called Transitional Kindergarten (or TK for short). In its first year, this new grade aims to bridge the gap between the play-world of preschool and the rigors of kindergarten. more
Why Preschool Isn't Enough | 02.25.2013
The Atlantic
As President Obama knows, early childhood education is a must. But without proper K-12 follow-up, its benefits could simply fade away. more
Editorial: Obama's preschool plan could be a boon to valley, California, and rest of the nation | 02.23.2013
San Jose Mercury News
In the fall of 2014, if all goes as planned, as many as 200 kids -- from infants to 5-year-olds -- will get an extraordinary opportunity. A renowned early learning program, Educare, will open a branch at San Jose's Santee Elementary School, with the goal of improving school readiness for low-income kids. And yet this Educare campus, a public-private partnership, will serve just a fraction of the thousands of kids in this valley who could benefit. It's nowhere near enough. That's where President Barack Obama's plan to improve access to preschool can help. more
My View: Not all preschools are created equal | 02.21.2013
CNN - Schools of Thought Blog
Kudos to the president - his call for preschool for every 4-year-old, in the State of the Union address, is a bold and visionary idea. It’s what those who understand the power of early education to unlock children’s minds have been urging for years. It’s what I promoted when I served on the 2008 presidential transition team. But - and it’s a very big but - whether universal prekindergarten really makes a difference in children’s lives or turns out to be a false hope depends entirely on the quality of what’s being offered. more
Early Learning for All: Yes We Can in California | 02.20.2013
Huffington Post
Two days after becoming the first U.S. President in history to call for preschool for every child in his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama rolled out an approach that aligns with what California's early childhood advocates have been calling for to ensure high quality early learning for our children. more
Education Dept. commission urges pre-kindergarten programs for poor students within decade | 02.19.2013
Associated Press
An Education Department commission is recommending pre-kindergarten programs for every poor student within 10 years, adding a timeframe to President Barack Obama’s similar call to help the least advantaged arrive for their first day of classes as prepared as their counterparts from more affluent homes. more
Preschool Economics | 02.18.2013
New York Times
Even a 4-year-old can understand the case for early-childhood education. It’s fun, you learn things, you make it easier for Mom and Dad to earn a decent living, and when you grow up you will be better able to earn a decent living yourself. At that point, you will start paying taxes that return the favor, helping finance the retirement and health care of the generation that invested in your education. more
Bay Area educators laud President Barack Obama's preschool plan | 02.15.2013
San Jose Mercury News
Preschool advocates, who have weathered five years of dispiriting state budget cuts, have responded ecstatically to President Barack Obama's initiative for universal preschool for 4-year-olds, a major surge in federal involvement in education. And with a blueprint already in the works for a statewide preschool plan, California may be well positioned to begin offering preschool to the estimated 125,000 4-year-olds from low-income families who can't afford to enroll. more
Editorial: Getting Preschool Education Right | 02.15.2013
New York Times
Even before the cost estimates and program details have been made public, President Obama’s proposal for expanding high-quality preschool education has encountered criticism from House Republicans. Yet decades of research has shown that well-designed preschool programs more than pay for themselves by giving young children the skills they need to move ahead. The challenge at the federal level will be to make sure that taxpayer dollars flow to proven, high-quality programs instead of being wasted on subsidies for glorified day care. more
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