Weekly Early Childhood Education News Report

December 5-9, 2016

National News

• For College Students With Kids, Getting Cheap Child Care Is A Challenge
  NPR
• Why Parents and Doctors Should Think About A.D.H.D. in Preschool
  The New York Times
• Home Visits Work: Let’s Make Them Universal
  The Chronicle of Social Change
• DeVos Would Be First Ed. Sec. Who Hasn’t Been a Public School Parent or Student
  Education Week
• The Playground Where Babies Learn to Talk
  The Atlantic
• Free. Effective. And Underenrolled.
  Slate
• ‘Pay for Success’ Funding Model Focus of Policy Toolkit
  Education Week
• Child Care Subsidies Are Dwindling, for and by the States
  Governing

California

• ‘We need to get moving’: LAUSD’s King urges school board to approve retooled
  3-year plan
  KPCC-FM
• California Ranks High For Least Affordable Infant, Child Care
  KCAL-TV
• L.A. school board won’t vote to approve superintendent’s strategic plan
  The Los Angeles Times

Illinois

• Healthy Families/Wings program brings support home for young parents
  Chicago Tribune

Indiana

• Early Target for Preschool Expansion: 5,000 More Students
  WIBC-FM

Louisiana

• Could a plan to improve early education be putting the squeeze on child
  care centers?
  The Hechinger Report

Maryland

• Less than half of Maryland kindergartners ready for school
  The Baltimore Sun

Mississippi

• How child care quality could take a hit when Mississippi’s resource libraries
  shut down
  The Hechinger Report

New Hampshire

• Why the State House Debate Over Full-Day Kindergarten Doesn’t Matter to
  Some Districts
  NHPR

New Mexico

• Mayor slims down effort to tax sugary beverages, exempts diet drinks
  Santa Fe New Mexican

North Carolina

• Money is there for universal pre-K
  The Charlotte Observer
• Mecklenburg needs universal Pre-K, but poor kids need other help too
  The Charlotte Observer

Oklahoma

• Mayor G.T. Bynum convenes ‘education cabinet’ on first full day in office
  Tulsa World

Oregon

• Oregon child care credits changing for 2017 filings
  KTVZ-TV

Pennsylvania

• Clock ticking, city seeks more kids for pre-k
  The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Lead continues to poison Philadelphia children: what can be done?
  The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tennessee

• Raising happy children: Local agency teaches stressed parents how to avoid
  child abuse
  Times Free Press
• Vanderbilt study: Pre-K math skills a possible indicator of student success
  The Tennessean

Texas

• Abbott can and should do better for pre-K kids
  Star-Telegram
• Quality pre-K helps low-income students score better on reading tests
  Star-Telegram
• Study finds high-quality preschool essential for academic success of
  low-income students
  KSAT-TV
• Study: Pre-K boosts future test scores of low-income students
  Houston Chronicle
• Advocates push to double funding for pre-K grants
  Houston Chronicle