Category Archives: Child care/children/early childhood development

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius recently remarked, We’ve got to make sure that kids by the time they hit kindergarten aren’t so far behind that they don’t ever catch up, and by the third grade they may as well drop out because they’re never going to catch up. Of course, Secretary SebeliusContinue Reading

The state House will consider a means-tested voucher bill (HB 944) in committee today.  That means that you’ll read and hear a lot of nonsense and half-truths about the success of private school vouchers.  If you want the whole story, read School Vouchers: From Friedman to the Finish Line. And don’t forget to remind yourContinue Reading

Education Week reports today on  ‘sequester’ pain being felt by the “Great Society Relic” Head Start.  Head Start is a federal preschool program to prepare low-income children for kindergarten readiness.  Head Start and Early Head Start serve nearly a million children and families. The programs were funded at nearly $8 billion in fiscal 2012, markingContinue Reading

The National Association of Counties (NACO) publishes a monthly newsletter titled County News.  This month’s edition had a short blurb about the 5 percent budget cut to Head Start, which was triggered by sequestration.  The author wrote, The cuts are being lamented by advocates for preschool preparedness because of the program’s long-lasting impact for students.Continue Reading

Of course you are!  The John Locke Foundation has you covered.  Read School Vouchers: From Friedman to the Finish Line and send a copy to all of the school choice “haters” out there. And remember: Preschool families and college students receive vouchers to attend the private institution of their choice, so there is no reasonContinue Reading

As details continue to emerge about the Obama administration’s 2014 education budget proposal, Neal McCluskey, associate director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Educational Freedom, continues to find more to dislike. In fact, McCluskey says from just a cursory review of the most recent developments “there seems to be a lot of bad stuff” beingContinue Reading

A must-see clip: By the way, the United States spends more on education (per child) than nearly any other nation on the planet.

Although Governor McCrory’s budget proposal would fund additional positions in the Office of Charter Schools (to the tune of $320,000 a year), it does not include funds for a private school choice program. I would have liked to see the McCrory administration signal their support for school choice by setting aside funding for a voucherContinue Reading