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Today, the House and Senate both reintroduced the Strong Start for America’s Children Act, which was originally introduced in 2013. The Act would advance high-quality, comprehensive early care and education access for young children across the country.
The U.S. Senate passed legislation to repeal the sustainable growth rate for doctors providing Medicare services, a bill that also provides a two-year extension of the MIECHV program and other important initiatives.
The U. S. House of Representatives passed the “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015," which also reauthorized the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program.
CLASP’s recommendations for reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) are based on our long-standing work and expertise in policies related to early childhood education and academic success for disadvantaged youth.
This report highlights how states are using Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) funds to advance state home visiting systems.
A CLASP report, written in collaboration with the Center for American Progress, highlights how the MIECHV program funding has played a central role in expanding home visiting services to vulnerable families.
President Obama’s FY 2016 budget proposal offers a bold vision for child care and early education in America, making a landmark, ongoing investment in a continuum of child care and early education services for children from birth through school entry.
Last night, child care got long-overdue national recognition of its centrality to working families, to communities, and to the country.
The 25-year update to the National Child Care Staffing Study, Worthy Work STILL Unlivable Wages, shows that little has changed since 1989; child care staff continues to make poor wages and turnover remains high.
The program information data for Head Start programs demonstrate how important Head Start services are in the lives of poor children and families.