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The Baker-Polito Administration today announced nearly $60 million in state and federal funding available to school districts and community organizations to offer summer learning and recreational programs designed to help students grow.

To all the members of the ECE field, thank you for sharing your time and expertise to complete this quick January 2022 survey! We know how challenging your work is right now. We also know that your individual experiences are important, and your collective voices are helping to shape our nation's up-to-the-minute understanding of what's happening in child care and early learning across states and settings. To see results from past NAEYC surveys, you can visit: naeyc.org/pandemic-surveys.    

This PLC offers AOST providers the opportunity to consider the unique learning needs of school-age children and how they can be supported during out-of-school time. Participants will gain knowledge on child development during the school-age years, and use that knowledge in creating a plan for learning activities that will be age-appropriate and fun!     

The most recent version of the Build Back Better Act, released by the House Committee on Rules on November 3, 2021, includes significant investment in many valuable programs and resources to help children and families thrive. By investing $400 billion in child care and pre-kindergarten, the bill will provide the robust investments needed to help create transformative change. 

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We work to focus on challenges/tough problems that are important to teachers. We strive to bring you transformational, research-based practices and perspectives, preparing educators to work with diverse groups in an inclusive way and address how students learn at all stages of development.

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Once you have fully completed the survey, you will be eligible to receive a Benchmarking Report comparing your company to others in your local area. The names of the other companies will be masked in the report, just as your information will be masked in reports received by other companies. 

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY-17) today reintroduced the Universal Child Care and Early Learning Act, a comprehensive and bicameral bill that will ensure that every family has access to high-quality, affordable child care and early learning opportunities by establishing a network of federally-supported, locally administered child care options.  

The Cliff Effect occurs when a person or family becomes ineligible for public assistance programs like housing and childcare subsidies once their income surpasses the threshold set by the Federal Poverty Guidelines, leaving them financially worse off than they were before the income bump. It causes people to turn down raises and promotions and is a major factor in perpetuating multi-generational poverty.  

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 Project Bread Legislative Agenda:

• school meals universally free for all students
• improve nutrition standards for school meals
• encourage sourcing from local producers and processors