Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Early Education in the News

May 12, 2003

NEWS:

Budget:
Working Mothers March at Sacramento Capitol to Save Child Care Funding
http://www.kxtv10.com/storyfull.asp?id=4375

Child-Care Supporters Gather At State Capitol Supporters Say Day-Care
Funds At Risk For Budget Cuts
http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/2187959/detail.html

Money For Child Care Dwindling in US
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/05/05/politics/main552364.shtml

Ohio Delays Decision On Using Day Care Funds For Horse Park
http://www.onnnews.com/story.php?record=23977

Preschool for All:
Barriers to universal early childhood education
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=BRAIN4-BARRIERS-04-30-03&cat=LS

Head Start:
Head Start reform still undefined
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030508-84181221.htm

Car Crashes Into Redding Head Start; Teacher Killed
http://www.ktvu.com/news/2193604/detail.html

NEW FACES DATA CONFIRM EFFECTIVENESS OF HEAD START
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/core/ongoing_research/faces/faces_pres_papers.html

MISC:
President Bush's official itinerary includes events to highlight the
importance of early childhood education.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0507laurabush.html

Population of State Increases to 35,591,000
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-census5may05,1,4198125.story?coll=la%2Dheadlines%2Dpe%2Dcalifornia

The real cost of child care
LEGISLATURE SHOULD LET SAN MATEO COUNTY EXPERIMENT WITH ELIGIBILITY
RULES AND A SLIDING SCALE FOR ASSISTANCE(Mercury Supports Realignment of
Child Care).
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/opinion/5813130.htm

Foundations focus on early education
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=BRAIN3-FOUNDATION-04-30-03&cat=LS

RESEARCH:
Study finds economic benefits of early education
http://www.news.wisc.edu/view.html?get=8632

Report links adult crime to child abuse
ADVOCACY GROUP RECOMMENDS INCREASED SPENDING ON PRE-KINDERGARTEN
PROGRAMS, PARENTING CLASSES
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/5795738.htm

GAO Report on Cuts by States to Child Care
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d03588.pdf

Report links adult crime to child abuse
ADVOCACY GROUP RECOMMENDS INCREASED SPENDING ON PRE-KINDERGARTEN
PROGRAMS, PARENTING CLASSES
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/5795738.htm