National & Trade
- Senate Education Leaders Close in On Bipartisan ESEA Rewrite – Education Week
- ESEA bill coming this week? – Politico Morning Education
- NEA’S new NCLB ad blitz – Politico Pro
- NEA Ads Target Senate Education Committee Lawmakers – Education Week
- Nation’s largest teachers union launches ad campaign as Congress debates No Child Left Behind – The Washington Post
- School Superintendents’ Association Pushes Congress on NCLB Rewrite – Education Week
- Editorial: A Rare Bipartisan Medicare Bill – The New York Times
- How parents cope with America’s child care ‘crisis’ – The Christian Science Monitor
- Quality child care: what’s at stake – The Christian Science Monitor
- Working Parents Should Be Very Happy About This Obscure Senate Vote – Huffington Post
- Mexican-Americans start falling behind cognitively by age 2, study shows – Fox News Latino
- Transforming What it Means to Teach Young Children, Birth Through Age 8 – EdCentral
- Head Start works particularly well for dual language learners – EdCentral
- Former Head of Texas Agency Appointed Federal Head Start Director – Education Week
- Whole Child Development Is Undervalued – Edutopia
- Sneak peek inside Hillary Clinton 2016: There’s no ‘I’ in campaign – CNN
Alabama
Arizona
- Breathe, Arizona. The Legislature has left the building! – The Arizona Republic
- Arizona ranks low in preschool attendance – KTAR FM
- Poverty in childhood can persist into adulthood – Arizona Daily Star
Connecticut
- Five Norwalk preschool programs receive facility improvement grants from state – The Hour
- State Grants Support Early Childhood Education – It’s Relevant Norwalk
Florida
- Advocates seek more funding, access to healthcare and early education for kids – Miami Herald
- Tax among options to fund children’s services in Leon County – Tallahassee Democrat
Illinois
- Garcia slams Emanuel’s prekindergarten initiative – Chicago Reader
- Letter: Early education important for all – The News-Gazette
- Letters: Spare child-care funding from cuts – Chicago Sun-Times
Iowa
- Letter: Strong start critical to children’s future – Ames Tribune
Maine
- Opinion: It’s time to make pre-K a national priority –Bangor Daily News
Minnesota
- Preschool plan may need more cash for classrooms, officials say – Daily Globe
- Column: Business, education lobbies gear for debate over preschool education – Star Tribune
- Opinion: Stars align to help boost universal pre-K proposal – Post-Bulletin
- Editorial: Minnesota: Rest and restraint – Pioneer Press
- Community Voices: Setting the record straight on early education claims – MinnPost
- As Legislature heads for final weeks, Dayton agenda in question – Star Tribune
- At the Capitol: 24 key issues and where they stand right now – Forum News Service
Mississippi
- ‘High quality’ elusive in Miss. child care centers – The Clarion-Ledger/The Hechinger Report
- Do you know how your childcare center is doing? Why it’s hard to find out – The Hechinger Report
- Column: Just biding time with human capital – The Clarion-Ledger
- Legislature’s history in keeping financial commitments shaky – Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Missouri
- Nixon releases $43 million dollars in funding – ABC 17
- Nixon releases $43 million of FY15 funding – St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Montana
- Letter: Support Early Edge – Great Falls Tribune
New Jersey
- Guest Column: It’s time to expand pre-K education to more of New Jersey’s school children – South Jersey Times
New York
- Exclusive: 51,000 families sign up for city pre-K in first 3 weeks of enrollment – New York Daily News
- Assemblywoman Fahy: The Vote on Education – Albany Times-Union
Ohio
- High-quality early childhood education should be a top priority – Dayton Daily News
South Carolina
- Opinion: 4K is a valuable investment for South Carolina – The State
Texas
- Editorial: El Paso’s Blanca Enriquez is ideal choice to lead Head Start nationally – El Paso Times
- Dallas ISD launches push to get kids signed up for pre-K – The Dallas Morning News
- Editorial: We must make pre-K registration week a success – The Dallas Morning News
- Column: Funding all-day pre-K will help alleviate poverty – Austin American-Statesman
- Editorial: State budget disorder – Houston Chronicle
Vermont
- State Launches New Program To Help Vulnerable Kids – Vermont Public Radio
- State: Barre City, Town show real ‘Promise’ – The Barre Montpelier Times-Argus
Virginia
- Letter: More for pre-K – The Virginian-Pilot
Washington state
- Olympia Watch: Early learning, student restraint bills survive latest cutoff – The Seattle Times
- How state budget plans differ for Democrats, GOP – The Seattle Times
- Editorial: How to get closer to solving state’s budget mess – The Seattle Times