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Express-Times: LTE: Closed child-care services need support to get through COVID-19 crisis
My business partner and I have owned and operated The Children’s Garden for 16 years. Since this time we’ve achieved and maintained a Star 3 rating, which designates high-quality child care in Pennsylvania. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, like so many of my colleagues in early learning who are also small business owners, we’ve had to close our child care center.
Penn Capital Star: OpEd: Veterans Day honors those who served. Now we need to look to the next generation of warriors.
For Veterans’ Day 2019, let’s honor our veterans by committing to investments sure to instill in young people the qualities they will need both in the workforce and in service to this great nation if they so choose.
Morning Call: Letter to the Editor: Teacher: Why Quality Pre-k Programs are Important
When my students walk in on that first day of kindergarten, children who didn’t attend high-quality pre-K are usually not as prepared for learning and often struggle to keep up with the children who did.
York Dispatch: OpEd: Quality pre-K prepares kids for school
As a kindergarten teacher of nearly 17 years, I am often asked if I notice a difference between kids who have attended prekindergarten and those who have not. My answer is always the same: YES, YES, and YES!
Morning Call: Your View by retired Allentown police chief: ‘Spend more on potential, less on penitentiaries’
Pennsylvania’s law enforcement professionals are tough on criminals because it is their job and their mission, but we know that safer communities start with diverting youth from lives of crime in the first place. We can fight crime by assuring that each Pennsylvania child earns a high school diploma and grows up to lead a productive, law-abiding life. This path demands a continuum of public investment in childhood, building a foundation of success from birth through graduation.
PennLive: OpEd: Investing in early childhood education reduces crime and saves taxpayer dollars | Opinion
At-risk children face so many challenges throughout their lives. One of the greatest accomplishments they can attain that dramatically reduces their likelihood of engaging in criminal activity is graduation from high school.We can help start them on the right path to a high school diploma and give their parents some of the skills that they may not have learned in their own childhood by providing these children with access to high-quality, publicly funded pre-kindergarten programs.
Times Observer: LTE: Every Child is Worthy
Offenders who commit crimes deserve to face punishment. But if I had a tool that I could use to keep the kids of Warren County on the right path and keep them out of trouble in the first place, I would do everything in my power to deploy it. That’s why I support high-quality pre-K programs, which help to instill good behavior and social norms and put children on early paths to educational success.
West Chester Daily Local News: Police Chief: Investing in Pre-K Pays Off
One trend I’d like to see continue is Pennsylvania investing in evidence-based high-quality pre-kindergarten programs that make a positive difference in the lives of children, families and communities here and throughout the Commonwealth.
Times-Leader: LTE: Support High-Quality Pre-k Funding
It speaks volumes that more than just teachers and education officials are stepping up to the plate advocating for additional investment in high-quality pre-k.
New Pittsburgh Courier: Letter to the Editor
While Governor Wolf and the PA legislature have increased education funding over the past several budget cycles, more continued investments —like the governor’s proposed additional $50 million for high quality Pre-K programs—are sorely needed.
