Pittsburgh Business Times: Group says investing in PreK good for business
“If companies want to have a skilled and educated workforce in the future, supporting quality early education is key, according to Pre-K for PA, a statewide issue campaign.
Capitalizing on this year’s gubernatorial election, the goal of the campaign is to provide access to high quality pre-kindergarten education to each child in Pennsylvania.”
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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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