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Head Start Program Performance Standards: Quality Component Overview

October 28, 2016

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 …

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What Early Learning in ESSA Can Look Like for States and Districts

May 23, 2016

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 …

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Analysis: Early Learning Provisions of the Every Student Succeeds Act

February 4, 2016

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 …

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Comparing the Three Iterations of the Nation’s Biggest Education Law – ESSA

February 4, 2016

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 …

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