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(83,979 posts)Quality Early Learning for Our Youngest Children
The President will also launch a new Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program, to support states and communities that expand the availability of Early Head Start and child care providers that can meet the highest standards of quality for infants and toddlers, serving children from birth through age 3. Funds will be awarded through Early Head Start on a competitive basis to enhance and support early learning settings; provide new, full-day, comprehensive services that meet the needs of working families; and prepare children for the transition into preschool. This strategy combined with an expansion of publicly funded preschool education for four-year olds will ensure a cohesive and well-aligned system of early learning for children from birth to age five.
The President is proposing to expand the Administrations evidence-based home visiting initiative, through which states are implementing voluntary programs that provide nurses, social workers, and other professionals to meet with at-risk families in their homes and connect them to assistance that impacts a childs health, development, and ability to learn. These programs have been critical in improving maternal and child health outcomes in the early years, leaving long-lasting, positive impacts on parenting skills; childrens cognitive, language, and social-emotional development; and school readiness. This will help ensure that our most vulnerable Americans are on track from birth, and that later educational investments rest upon a strong foundation.
Our children are our future, early education will give our children a base, a starting point to grow. An educated child has the ability to give back to society as they age. They will be less of a burden and more of an asset to our future. Do not rule out a kindergartener, with the right start and continued education, well they could change the world.
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