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…
This article is a part of an ongoing series that examines equity during COVID-19 in early childhood and how this crisis impacts young children and families of color disproportionately in health, education, and geography across North Carolina. An introduction to…
The NC Legislature allocated the rest of the federal CARES Act funding (about $1 billion) in a quick 2-day session last week. The NC Senate avoided significant debate on the bill by gutting another bill and inserting the budget provisions,…
An Action Plan for 2021 on the Leandro case has been approved by Judge David Lee as a first step in what will eventually be an eight-year implementation of the state’s mandate to provide a sound, basic education to every…
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…
The Health and Education working groups of the House Select Committee on COVID-19 met in the last week to discuss how to allocate federal funds from the CARES Act. Indications are that there will be additional funding soon for child…
Barriers to increasing the supply of NC Pre-K classrooms for eligible four-year-olds include reimbursement rates that don’t cover the actual cost of care, a lack of space for new classrooms, a shortage of qualified teachers and the funding to pay…
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.…
When most people think about school discipline and crime – like in-school and out-of-school suspensions or assaults on school staff – they think about high schoolers. But the NC Department of Public Instruction’s recent Consolidated Data Report finds that young…