Weekly Early Childhood Education News Report

July 3-7, 2017

National News

• Intensive Preschool Programs Can Yield Massive Returns, Especially for Boys, Nobel Laureate’s Study Shows
  The 74
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce Makes Business Case for High-Quality Child Care
  Education Week

Iowa

• Quad-Cities honored for advancing early literacy
  Dispatch-Argus

New Mexico

• CYFD ending contract that provides services to early childhood education centers
  KRQE-FM

New York

• Give homeless kids a chance, with better services in shelters
  Daily News

Oregon

• New preschools aim to reach huge share of Oregon’s young children not in school
  The Oregonian

Pennsylvania

• Value of quality pre-K education benefits all of us
  The Intelligencer

Vermont

• State boost for child care falls short of need
  Brattleboro Reformer

Washington

• Proposed Washington state budget boosts spending by 13.5%
  The Seattle Times