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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. 

     

     

  • 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.

     

     


pre-k legislative implementation work group

Pre-K for All DC engages the public and policymakers around its policy priorities through Board of Directors-led work groups. These work groups are open to all District residents and operates as organizing points of communication and collaboration around each Pre-K for All DC priority. 

The Pre-K Legislative Implementation Work Group sustains the political will to ensure the Pre-K Enhancement and Expansion Act of 2008 is successfully implemented and fully funded. The Board of Director co-conveners are BB Otero of CentroNia and Albert Wat of Pre-K Now. 

The Work Group sustains this will by releasing periodic implementation briefs, and convening town halls and discussion groups to construct a dialogue around the implications of legislative implementation for DC residents. 

Email Pre-K for All DC to Join the Work Group.

Learn More About the Pre-K Act of 2008.

Review Pre-K for All DC's latest Pre-K Legislative Implementation Brief. 

doc  Testimony of Carrie Thornhill, President and CEO of Pre-K For All DC efore the District of Columbia Council Committee Of the Whole Public Hearing on the Pre-K Acceleration and Clarification Amendment Act of 2010 March 31, 2010