Legislative Updates
- About 30 years ago, an experiment began in Chapel Hill, N.C., in which poor children were randomized into either regular "day care" in the community or into a model early-education program with learning games, teachers educated in early childhood development, weekly home visits to engage parents and oversight from the university. The results were remarkable, read more.
- Current legislation, in effect, takes the early learning out of our early learning system and instead reduces it to programs that simply warehouse children while their Parents work. These bills, if passed, would impair the state’s ability to ensure children are learning by eliminating accountability for school readiness providers and proper assessment read more from the Miami Herald.
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EARLY LEARNING UNDER ATTACK - Read the latest issue of the Florida Children's Services Council - Capital Connection.
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Read the 2012 Legislative bills to look out for!
- Read the School Readiness Program Overview Presentation given to the Florida House Prek-12 Appropriations Subcommittee.
- Read Florida House of Representatives 2011 Session Summary.
