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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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Pre-K for All DC is the District’ leading public engagement and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of young children and their families by building a high-quality early care and education system.  

From 2006 to 2008, Pre-K for All DC waged a successful public-will building campaign and offered up a legislative framework for universal pre-k that resulted in the passage of the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008. Pre-K for All DC now monitors the implementation of the legislation and ensure the District acts on its commitments. To date, the organization has secured $20.5 million in funding for the legislation in FY2009 and FY2010 budgets.

Click here to keep this work going and make a tax-exempt donation to Pre-K for All DC's Fund at the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region.