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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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business & civic leaders

Civic and business leaders rally around early care and education as a strategic investment in education reform, workforce development and economic growth. Since 2006, the Federal City Council, Washington Board of Trade, and DC Chamber of Commerce have championed early childhood education – including the recent passage of the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008 – by lending their voice to the public debate through DC Council testimony and other avenues.


Click here to review the promising social and economic returns generated by investing in high-quality early care and education.

Click here to email Board of Directors Chair and CEO Carrie Thornhill to learn how to become an active business or civic leader in this arena.