The Think BabiesTM NC Alliance recently shared its 2021 Policy Priorities for NC infants, toddlers and their families. The Alliance seeks to ensure that North Carolina’s youngest children, prenatal to age 3, benefit from effective and equitable public policies, programs,…
President Joe Biden took office today. He has laid out a two-step plan of rescue and recovery, aimed at supporting children and families through the immediate health and economic crisis of the pandemic and building a stronger infrastructure going forward.…
At the end of the 2020, Congress passed and the President signed into law a bill that includes approximately $900 billion for COVID-19 relief funding. EducationCounsel, a national partner, has drafted a top-line summary of key education-related and child care…
The Supreme Court indicated during oral arguments yesterday that it is unlikely to throw out the Affordable Care Act (ACA). That is good news during a time when young children’s health uninsurance rates – which have long been declining in…
The first B-3rd Interagency Council meeting since December 2019 focused almost entirely on the state’s COVID-19 response in child care, preschool, and K-12 schools, and the current science on how children are impacted by the virus. The Department of Public…
Governor Cooper released a 2020-21 budget proposal last week that called for investments in early childhood, education and health by allocating an additional $559m in state funds and the full $978m that remains in federal CARES Act funding. See our…
Click here to access a new 20-minute video tutorial on how to navigate the brand-new Pathways to Grade-Level Reading Data Dashboard.
The Pathways Data Dashboard supports a statewide effort to improve the collection, analysis and use of early childhood data…
Raleigh, NC (June 29, 2020) – An interactive, online dashboard of early childhood data measures that influence third-grade reading was released today by the North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation (NCECF), as part of the Pathways to Grade-Level Reading (Pathways) initiative.…
Updated June 1
Two of NCECF’s partners have released updated data resources on how young children are faring in NC. The Pathways Data Dashboard, to be released this month, will complement them.
NC Child’s County Data Cards
NC Child has…
On March 27, President Trump signed a $2 trillion economic relief bill called the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act into law after it was approved with bipartisan support by the House of Representatives and Senate. This is…