Our primary challenges are pretty similar to everybody else's right now. We're in the midst of a pandemic, but we also just experienced devastation by Hurricane Laura in the southwest and up towards the central and north parts of our state. So we have pandemic recovery and we have hurricane recovery. We're a very culturally rich state, which is such a positive, but we tend to be under-resourced. And so, we're looking at what funding is going to a look like in our 2021 fiscal session. And we’re thinking about how we make progress towards the goals we laid out for Pritzker that we desperately want to achieve.
By Ruth Trombka Editor and Writer, BUILD Initiative
In December, the Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute published “Opportunity, Responsibility, and Security: A Consensus Plan for Reducing Poverty and Restoring the American Dream,” a plan to ameliorate one of our country’s most deeply-rooted problems. The plan is distinctive in that it addresses poverty by simultaneously focusing on issues related to family, work, and education. In this blog post Editor and Writer Ruth Trombka examines what this means for early childhood advocates.
Joan Lombardi, Ph.D. Director, Early Opportunities LLC
The importance of assuring linkages between early childhood programs and the early grades of school is a concept that has grown over the years.
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