Leaders for quality public education from cradle to career
Crystal Garvin is a mother of three from Bellingham, WA. She has a degree in Early Childhood Education from Whatcom Community College. I am a stay at home mother of three children. My oldest is an Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP) graduate and is currently in kindergarten. She is a model student and [...]
The Senate Early Learning & K-12 education committee will hear testimony on this bill today at 1:30pm. LEV has been a firm supporter of investments early learning for many years. If we want to give all kids the opportunity to succeed in life, high quality early is bedrock strategy to do so. From birth to [...]
Early this morning, parents, activists, and early learning advocates from across the state were in Olympia to testify in favor of HB 2569, also known as QRIS, at the House Early Learning & Human Services Committee. The passage of QRIS is would mean implementing a voluntary quality rating and improvement system for child care centers [...]
Sonja Lennox is a mother of two from the city of Tacoma. She is an advocate for early learning and parent engagement across the state of Washington. She has traveled to Washington, DC and given presentations on the importance of family involvement in children’s education. Both of my children have attended Head Start. I am [...]
Sarah Ramsdell is a mother of two and lives in the Vancouver, Washington area. Everyone knows children don’t come with instruction manuals. I imagine, at some point, every parent has wished their child had. Regardless of the lack of an instruction manual, every parent is conscious of the fact that the first years of a [...]
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If you knew that you could receive anywhere from $7-$16 in return for every $1 you invested, wouldn’t you say, “Sign me up!”? That’s the kind of dividend that investing in high-quality early learning could pay for Washington state. Right now, more than 50 percent of our children enter kindergarten unprepared. By establishing universal voluntary [...]
Marina is a mother of two from Elma, WA. She works for the Aberdeen School District. She is a graduate of Western Washington University. My name is Marina Richardson, and my husband Rick and I have two children ages four (soon to be five) and two. My husband works for the state as a corrections [...]
Lawmakers are considering a bill that would establish universal voluntary early learning for 3- and 4- year olds in Washington. HB 2448 would also focus on birth to three programs. Despite the state’s tough economic situation, there have been highlights in early learning. Many people now recognize that investment in high-quality early learning pays great [...]
From the Associated Press: The expansion in public prekindergarten programs has slowed and even been reversed in some states as school districts cope with shrinking budgets. As a result, many 3- and 4-year-olds aren’t going to preschool. Kids from low-income families who start kindergarten without first attending a quality education program enter school an estimated [...]
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