Contact: Rafael Otto | Director of Communications | (503) 219-9034 | rafael@childinst.org Portland, OR — Children’s Institute, an early childhood policy and advocacy organization, has chosen Beaverton and Forest Grove School Districts to participate in the first...
The recently passed Student Success Act includes $400 million in investments in early childhood programs and services. This is big news, and not just for Oregon. Strategies for Children, a Massachusetts organization devoted to increasing funding for children from...
Protesters wearing "Red for Ed" gather along Portland's waterfront in support of funding for education. Teachers across Oregon today are walking out of their classrooms to protest decades of severe underfunding of our schools. While many states have seen teacher...
Thanks to Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute for permission to share a guest blog authored by our own Elena Rivera, Senior Health Policy and Program Advisor. Oregon Effort Incentivizes Health Metrics for Kindergarten Readiness Preparing a child for...
State and local leaders across the country are becoming increasingly vocal about their support for early education, and universal preschool programs in particular. That’s likely reflective of two major factors: broad nonpartisan voter support for increased public...
Recent news reports and a report released this month from the Oregon Education Association reflect an increasingly pervasive and alarming trend in classrooms: Across the state and at all grade levels, educators, parents, and other child advocates are reporting that...
At the end of December, Oregon was awarded a $4,257,418 Preschool Development Birth Through Five (PDG B–5) federal grant. The funding will allow the state to conduct a comprehensive birth through 5 needs assessment followed by in-depth strategic planning to develop...
Children's Institute board member Lyn Hennion spoke with KOBI-TV on the importance of early childhood. Ninety percent of a child's brain is developed before they enter kindergarten, yet Oregon lacks an early childhood system to ensure that every child gets what...
By Mari Megias This piece originally appeared in the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Stories. Swati Adarkar, a 1989 graduate of the two-year MPA program at Harvard Kennedy School, wants every child, regardless of family income, to have the best possible start in...
Swati Adarkar was interviewed by KOIN6 news yesterday about Governor Brown's budget proposals for the 2019 legislative session. The full story is available on the KOIN6 website. Featured Comments Another part of the proposal, which would address kindergarten...
