Download or read book Access to Pre K Education Under the McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act Pre K Policy Brief Series written by Ellen Boylan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act ("McKinney-Vento") provides federal funding to states to address the problems that homeless children and youth encounter in enrolling, attending, and succeeding in the nation's public schools. McKinney-Vento requires states to develop plans that ensure homeless children and youth the same access to free public education as is available to other students; eliminate barriers to enrollment, attendance, and success in school; prevent the segregation of homeless students from the mainstream school environment; and provide access to the education and services needed to ensure that homeless students have an opportunity to meet the same academic standards as all other students. Local education authorities (LEAs) are required under McKinney-Vento to ensure that homeless children and youth are immediately identified, enrolled in school, and provided with all necessary services, including transportation, to allow school attendance. This paper discusses the limitations of the McKinney-Vento Act and offers several suggestions on how states can increase homeless children's participation in state-funded Pre-K programs. (Contains 29 endnotes.).

Download or read book Including Children with Disabilities in State Pre K Programs Pre K Policy Brief Series written by Ellen Boylan and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States and local school districts are required by federal law to educate preschool age children with disabilities in typical early childhood programs alongside children who do not have disabilities to the maximum extent appropriate. This policy brief provides an overview of the law and sets forth a list of policy recommendations that can help ensure that children with disabilities receive an appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. It is intended to serve as a resource for policy makers and advocates seeking to increase inclusion in state funded pre-k programs. Appendices include: (a) Summary of Federal Laws Promoting Inclusion of Pre-k; and (b) What is High Quality Pre-k? (Contains 1 table and 69 endnotes.).

Download or read book Increasing Access to Preschool written by Kate Miller and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than ever before, Californians recognize that preschool provides young children with a strong start in school and life. Research confirms that effective preschool not only prepares children for kindergarten, but benefits them in the long-term. Despite the benefits, only 48% of 3- and 4-year-old children attend preschool in California. While all families want to provide their children with the best early learning opportunities possible, there are a number of barriers that can make preschool impossible. To help more working families and ultimately increase the state's preschool attendance rates, more full-day, full-year options must be made available for the families that need such services. This policy brief provides recommendations for increasing full-day, full-year preschool opportunities by: (1) Increasing the daily Standard Reimbursement Rate (SRR) for all early care and education programs, part-day and full-day, with particular focus on raising the rate for full-day, full-year care; (2) Monitoring and supporting administrative and legislative efforts to consolidate and streamline existing California Department of Education (CDE) early care and education programs; (3) Increasing comprehensive training and technical assistance services for accounting and program staff in early care and education agencies; (4) Supporting efforts to create a more consistent approach to unrestricted and restricted third party funding; (5) Improving capacity of the Centralized Eligibility List (CEL) to support early care and education; and (6) Conducting a legislative interim hearing to identify regulatory and legislative barriers to funding and access to full-day, full-year opportunities. Specific actions and timeframe for each recommendation are included. (Contains 25 endnotes and 1 chart.).

Download or read book Wrightslaw Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2019 written by Peter Wright and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrightslaw Special Education Legal Developments and Cases 2019 is designed to make it easier for you to stay up-to-date on new cases and developments in special education law.Learn about current and emerging issues in special education law, including:* All decisions in IDEA and Section 504 ADA cases by U.S. Courts of Appeals in 2019* How Courts of Appeals are interpreting the two 2017 decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court* Cases about discrimination in a daycare center, private schools, higher education, discrimination by licensing boards in national testing, damages, higher standards for IEPs and "least restrictive environment"* Tutorial about how to find relevant state and federal cases using your unique search terms

Download or read book Is Indiana Ready for State Funded Pre K Programs written by Terry E. Spradlin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Education Policy Brief revisits the evidence of the benefits and impact of prekindergarten programs as documented in the 2006 report, "Closing the Achievement Gap Series: Part I. Is Indiana Ready for State-Sponsored Prekindergarten Programs? Education Policy Brief. Volume 4, Number 7, Summer 2006," and provides updated information on policy and program developments around the United States. Key questions are examined concerning the design of high-quality prekindergarten programs; the state's role in oversight and financial support; and costs of targeted, high-quality programs. The brief includes the perspectives of leaders of three highly regarded business, education, and non-profit organizations, and their advocacy for early childhood education: (1) Policy Perspective: Circumstances at Birth (M. Kem Kawkins); (2) Policy Perspective: Role for School Corporations in Delivery of Preschool (Cameron Rains and Tammy Miller); and (3) Policy Perspective: Early Childhood Investment is Key to Our Future (Barry Lessow). [For "Closing the Achievement Gap Series: Part I. Is Indiana Ready for State-Sponsored Prekindergarten Programs? Education Policy Brief. Volume 4, Number 7, Summer 2006," see ED493108.].

Download or read book Blocks to Their Future written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Clearinghouse Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Reshaping Universal Preschool written by Lucinda G. Heimer and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, detailed account of the complex state of Universal Preschool (UPK) in the United States. As discussions regarding access, equity, and the societal value of early childhood education enter into the public forum, this book offers critical perspectives for next steps. The authors join the synergy of wonder to the practicality of wisdom to navigate complicated systems of power, relationships, and discourse. Cross-sector efforts to address planning and implementation of UPK are examined while acknowledging the current inequitable nature of the field. The book is a cautionary tale that includes historical and current vignettes showing that some issues in UPK collaboratives are constant across time. To bring the discussion alive, a variety of stakeholder perspectives offer insights into the “why” behind policy decisions. Reshaping Universal Preschool will help stakeholders explore, reflect, and apply lessons learned to existing or potential UPK collaborative efforts. Book Features: Honors and illustrates perspectives from the participants—families, teachers, support staff, administrators, researchers, and policymakers.Considers the complicated nature of perceived power among stakeholders.Offers pragmatic suggestions to consider while engaging in policy changes that affect early childhood practice.Provides insight on collaborative practices building up from early education to the larger educational context.Contains reflective questions to help readers apply the research and concepts to their own practice, situation, and communities.

Download or read book The Promise of Pre K written by National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education. Leadership Symposium and published by National Center for Research o. This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High quality pre-K that really improves children's outcomes; that's the goal early childhood professional will work toward with this groundbreaking text, the first volume in the NEW National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education (NCRECE) series. Combining the most current knowlege of top researchers, policy makers, and federal and state officials, this book examines where pre-K is today and inspires decision-makers with concrete examples fo successful programs. Wotj tjos om=depth examination of the latest research and practice readers will be better prepared to: make a compelling argument for supportign high-quality pre-K; address the complex challenges of expanding pre-K; understand the pros and cons of different types of pre-K programs; and make informed decisions about the most important issues in program development. To find out what's already working in pre-K program development, readers will get an inside look at five successful state-level prgrams in New York, Maryland, Louisiana, Georgia, and North Carolina. throug detailed analyses of each programs characteristics, these extended case examples give decision-makers a template for effective, child-centered early education. An essential resource for policy makers, researchers, and teach educators, this important volume will help early childhood professionals make progress toward their ultimate goal: pre-k that responds to children's changing needs, helps close the achievemetn gap, and ensures school readiness.

Download or read book Preschool Programs written by California Univ., Los Angeles. Center for Mental Health in Schools and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, early education has emerged as a major policy and program topic. And, while the importance of early education is undisputed, the increasing calls for "Universal Preschool" and full-day kindergartens have yielded considerable controversy. Our specific interest in public policy for preschool programs stems from our concerns about promoting social and emotional development, preventing learning, behavior, and emotional development, preventing learning, behavior, and emotional problems, and addressing such problems at an early age. This brief is designed to provide highlights of basic issues that permeate public policy discussions of pre-K programs. It also includes references to detailed guides and reports that expand on these matters. Appended are: (1) A Few Examples of Public-Funded Pre-Kindergarten Programs; (2) Three Famous and Frequently Cited Programs; and (3) Using the Center's Quick Find on Early Childhood Development.

Download or read book School Community Partnerships in New York State written by Betty Holcomb and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The expansion of Pre-K in early childhood programs, both in the community and in schools, has the potential to build significant new alignment between the traditional K-12 education system and the preschool year. Most communities, however, have only scratched the surface of collaboration between public schools and community programs as prekindergarten expands. Such partnerships hold potential to better align teaching and learning, resources, and capacity, and to ease the transition to kindergarten, leading to improved educational outcomes for children. There is increasing recognition that these partnerships are a critical component for moving toward a coherent system and continuum of services, birth to age 8. Currently more than half of the children enrolled in Pre-K are in community-based settings and this has held steady over the years. New York's Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) legislation that passed in 1997 created an important new opportunity to build these partnerships. These partnerships are complicated by a variety of issues that stem from the different contexts, supports, and infrastructure available to public schools and their community partners. Public education is free and open to all children and managed by a single system, with its own infrastructure and supports. Most early childhood programs and services operate as a single, autonomous entity, not as part of a system. Bridging these worlds holds significant promise of producing better educational outcomes for children and better meeting the needs of and strengthening families. The task ultimately calls for a set of policies and practices to inform and facilitate the work of these new partnerships to assure effective, efficient, and coherent delivery of early education services. The effort will ultimately require new resources, technical assistance, and some system-wide professional development to fill gaps in knowledge in both the early childhood and public school community. This Snapshot offers some new findings on next steps to strengthen these partnerships. Above all, these results indicate a need for common understanding about whether specific policies and practices are in place and understood across all settings. "School Community Partnerships: Moving Pre-K Forward Survey," designed by Sam Stephens, is contained in the appendix. [The Booth Ferris Foundation supported the Center for Children's Initiatives' new School Community Partnerships Project.].

Download or read book All Together Now written by Rachel Schumacher and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief is based on the 61-page report of the same name. This paper, commissioned by the Brookings Institution, studies the emergence of the mixed delivery model, in which pre-kindergarten is delivered in community-based settings and schools. It describes findings of a state survey CLASP conducted to understand the policy choices, opportunities, and challenges of including community-based child care providers in pre-kindergarten programs. At the conclusion of the study period for this paper (November 2004), at least 29 states that are currently operating at least one pre-kindergarten program using a mixed delivery approach were found. Those states are: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Other states, for example Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, are considering or expanding pre-kindergarten policies but were not yet established enough to be included in our study. This policy brief describes principal approaches to state implementation of the mixed delivery model but does not provide examples of state policies. (Contains 1 figure.).

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Homelessness written by David Levinson and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-06-21 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A readerʼs guide is provided to assist readers in locating entries on related topics. It classifies entries into 14 general categories: Causes, Cities, Demography and Characteristics, Health issues, History, Housing, Legal issues, Advocacy and policy, Lifestyle issues, Organizations, Perceptions of homelessness, Populations, Research, Service systems and settings, World perspectives and issues.

Download or read book Serving Preschool Children Under Title I written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Integrating Faith Based Organizations Into State Funded Pre K Programs written by Dan Goldman and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This policy brief addresses federal and state constitutional issues that arise when faith-based organizations participate in state prekindergarten (pre-k) programs and recommends safeguards to ensure that public funding of those programs complies with constitutional principles respecting the separation of church and state and freedom of religion. To date, there have been no court decisions analyzing a state pre-k program under the federal or state constitutions, although decisions addressing public funding of other religiously affiliated educational programs provide guidance on how courts might consider these issues. The recommendations and guidance provided in this brief are general in nature; every state's constitution and jurisprudence differ and the law in this area is evolving. State Constitution Religion Provisions and Participation of Faith-Based Pre-K Providers are appended. (Contains 42 endnotes.).

Download or read book Preschool for California s Children written by Margaret Bridges and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Community Level Challenges in Implementing a Mixed Delivery Prekindergarten System written by Samuel A. Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, states have dramatically expanded prekindergarten services (Pre-K), given the evidence that high-quality early childhood education can put children on a path to success in school and later life. To support the expansion, most of those states have adopted a mixed delivery system, developing the new educational opportunities in both public schools and early childhood programs in the community, a strategy that leverages the existing capacity, expertise, and public investments that support early learning and healthy development. Such a system has the potential to more rapidly expand the availability of high quality early education and also offers families a choice of preschool settings. Increasingly, educators and policymakers are looking at strategies to align learning experiences, enrich services and family supports, and build a unified early education system so that all children benefit equally regardless of setting. Great progress has been made on this front, but developing and implementing an integrated, coordinated state Pre-K system is challenging. The two worlds of public education and early childhood development are still far from aligned, operating with complex governance and funding sources, in addition to different strategies and approaches to practice. This paper provides a summary of specific challenges that New York communities have encountered as they developed and implemented a mixed system for providing prekindergarten services. By anticipating these challenges, school districts and community-based early education programs can develop strategies to support effective partnerships, successful program implementation, and improved school readiness for young children. A combined list of references and other sources is provided.