In response to community concerns, the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) studied the need for culturally responsive preschool programs to serve immigrant and refugee families in the Portland Metropolitan area. IRCO works to support the needs of...
Early childhood advocates around the country are celebrating the 2018 Omnibus spending bill recently passed by Congress and signed by President Trump. The bill contains a $2.37 billion increase for the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), the largest...
The Department of Education has published an unprecedented look at chronic absenteeism, a huge educational crisis in the United States. While early learning is not called out specifically in the study, we know that chronic absence in kindergarten is a...
Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute has created state fact sheets detailing health insurance coverage for children with Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA. Below is the Oregon...
Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute has created state fact sheets detailing health insurance coverage for children with Medicaid, CHIP, and the ACA. Below is the Oregon...
A new report from the Learning Policy Institute shares lessons from four states (Michigan, West Virginia, Washington and North Carolina) on how to build a high-quality early learning system for children birth through third grade. The findings are both...
