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  • DC Council Budget Hearings Impact Funding for Education Initatives

    • The District of Columbia Council will hold public hearings for the FY2011 budgets of city agencies in April 2010.  Pre K for All DC is interested in how funds are allotted to the City's education agencies because of their direct impact on the city's children. Pre K for All invites all stakeholders in early childhood education to follow and participate in these hearings in order to ensure that all children in the District of Columbia have access to high quality early childhood learning opportunities. 

     

     

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  • DC Council Passes Emergency Legislation to Accelerate Pre-K Implementation

    • On Tuesday January 5, 2010, the Council of the District of Columbia voted unanimously to pass the Pre-K Acceleration and Clarification Emergency Amendment Act of 2010. This emergency act will fast track the implementation of the landmark Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008 that ensures that all three- and four-year-olds in the District of Columbia have access to high-quality pre-k programs by September 2014.

     

     


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public policy agenda

Informed by Sharon Lynn Kagan's Policy Matters work, Pre-K for All DC utilizes a unique policy logic model to frame its public policy agenda.

The logic model begins with the result in mind - all children are prepared for school and life success. The model then backward maps a series of conceptual linkages to arrive at a  series of preferred state policy choices. If these state policy choices are successfully implemented, than all children will be prepared for school and life success. 

Utilizing this logic model as a guidepost, Pre-K for All DC's Board of Directors adopted two state policy choices as the focus of our 2008-2010 Public Policy Agenda - the successful implementation of the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008 and the expansion of high-quality birth to three care. 

Each public policy priority is supported by an inclusive, Board-led work group of key stakeholders. Utilizing best practices from here in the District and across the country, these work groups plan the advocacy and public engagement strategies that will advance sound state policy choices.