NCECF’s close partner NC Child has released a position announcement for an Early Childhood Education Campaign Manager.
This position will be focused on building a multi-year campaign for a universal, publicly-funded system that offers the benefits of early care and…
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…
“COVID-19 has certainly exacerbated the inequities and disparities that early childhood education advocates have been raising for years. …it is not alarmist to recognize the catastrophic effects on the sector.” Leaders in the early childhood space, Muffy Grant of NCECF…
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…
School has officially started for more than a million elementary and preschool children in North Carolina. Most of them are at home on a computer or tablet rather than in a school building. The interactive graphic below from Spectrum News…
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…