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Video: This is Jo
Meet Jo. Jo is a four-year-old who is pushing her limits every day by challenging her senses and learning more about the world around her through high-quality early childhood education.
Head Start Program Performance Standards: Quality Component Overview
For over fifty years, families across America have relied on Head Start programs to provide children the skills they need to be ready for school and families the assistance they …
Pay for Success Emerges as New Financing Mechanism to Support Continued Early Learning Investment
Pay for Success (PFS) is a financing mechanism that leverages community-based solutions to public sector interests with private investment. Though public investment in early childhood education has undoubtedly increased, the …
What Early Learning in ESSA Can Look Like for States and Districts
FFYF has developed this resource to serve as a helpful tool for states writing innovative ESSA early learning plans. In late 2015, Congress approved and President Obama signed the bipartisan …
Analysis: Early Learning Provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act
In December 2015, Congress approved, and President Obama signed, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, P.L. 114-95) to replace the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. This latest update …
Comparing the Three Iterations of the Nation’s Biggest Education Law – ESSA
These tables map the major early learning provisions included in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, S.1177, P.L. 114-95) and compares them to the No Child Left Behind Act, and …
FFYF Testifies in Favor of Statewide Competition at ED ELC Forum
Earlier today, FFYF participated in a public forum hosted by the U.S. Department of Education about the structure of the Early Learning Challenge in FY12. FFYF firmly believes that the …
