PennLive: McGinty to visit Allison House school tomorrow
“Katie McGinty will highlight the importance of early education during a campaign stop in Harrisburg’s Allison Hill tomorrow morning.
McGinty will visit the Hansel & Gretel Early Learning Center on Walnut Street at 10 a.m. to visit the pre-k classrooms and read to children. She will be joined by representatives from the military, law enforcement and business communities affiliated with the Pre-K for PA campaign.”
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Doylestown Intelligencer: Movement for pre-K funding in full force in Bucks
“An early child education event held for local state legislators was hosted by an enthusiastic group leading the cause. However, few lawmakers attended.
The Bucks County Association for the Education of Young Children hosted its annual Child Advocacy Breakfast on Friday morning at Spring Mill Country Club in Northampton. The event was scheduled around this year’s Week of the Young Child, during which advocates across the nation held events campaigning for early childhood education.”
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The Times Herald: Montgomery County commissioners proclaim ‘Week of the Young Child’
“Montgomery County commissioners made a proclamation this week recognizing the Week of the Young Child, but not before letting several children from Crayon Kids in Norristown sit in their chairs.
“The week of the young child is really an opportunity to raise awareness for the early childhood education,” Montgomery County Director of Child Care Information Services Elizabeth Adeyi said at the commissioners’ meeting Thursday. “Early childhood education is really the building block, the genesis to life-long learning and we really have to get it right. I’m glad to report that in Montgomery County we have the highest number of children in high quality learning centers in the whole south eastern region,” she said.”
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Wilkes-Barre Times Leader: Letters to the Editor: Pre-K can decrease crime woes
Luzerne County district attorney writes a letter to the editor in support of pre-K:
“The fact that two-thirds of Luzerne County’s 3- and 4-year-olds do not have access to publicly funded, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs creates an obvious school readiness gap and a less obvious crime prevention gap. But many law enforcement leaders, including myself, have long considered quality early childhood education as a critical component in an overall strategy to curb crime and violence.
Research is clear that Pennsylvania’s quality early learning programs are helping to control early aggressive behaviors in at-risk children, lowering the need for special education and reducing the odds that they will continue to develop anti-social delinquent and even criminal behaviors as they get older.”
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AxisPhilly: On the outside looking in
AxisPhilly’s profile of PCCY’s Executive Director, Donna Cooper:
“The notion of providing Pre-K education has bipartisan support. Finding the money in these tight times is another matter.
PCCY is one of nine organizations behind the Pre-K for PA campaign, which advocates for investing in high quality pre-kindergarten education for every three-year-old and four-year-old in the state.
“For us it’s a key pathway out of poverty. It’s a key pathway to increasing high school graduation. It’s a key pathway to ensuring that children are more likely to have decent jobs, stay out of jail, have productive lives,” Cooper said. “So given that we have limited resources and the research says that the cheapest place to invest is early childhood, it makes a lot of sense to do so.””
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