EXCERPT FROM: WRBL
By Liz Buckthorpe
PHENIX CITY, Ala. -- Pre-K programs are said to be suffering across the nation. However according to Phenix City schools superintendant Dr. Larry DiChiara that is not the case across Alabama and certainly not true for Phenix City Schools.

EXCERPT FROM: The Florida Times-Union
By Matt Dixon
The panel tasked with crafting the House's education budget unveiled their first proposal.

EXCERPT FROM: Birth to Thrive
By Paul Nyhan
We spend a lot of time writing about the importance of early intervention, research-based practices, proven curriculums, and public policies. But, there is another building block of early learning: the family dinner.

EXCERPT FROM: New America Foundation
By Laura Bornfreund
Both the House and Senate are currently considering proposals to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, the 2001 iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. It is unlikely that either of these will actually become law; the Senate education committee’s comprehensive bill and the House education committee’s package of five bills have little in common and, in the House’s case, no bipartisan support, leaving few opportunities for compromise. It’s worth taking a close look at the proposals on the table, however, to get a feel for how each Congressional delegation is thinking about education policy. The bills take different paths in several areas, and below we highlight five: early learning, federal funding, school improvement, teacher and leader quality, and the future of Race to the Top and the Obama administration’s other education reform grant programs.

EXCERPT FROM: Boston.com
By Kimberly Hefling
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.

EXCERPT FROM: Los Angeles Times
By Carla Rivera
At a Pomona preschool recently, children played with a large wooden train set, built a fort with colorful cardboard blocks and listened attentively as their teacher discussed ways to be safe in school and outdoors.

EXCERPT FROM: Education Week
By Lesli Maxwell
The nine states splitting $500 million in Race to the Top early-learning grants must now deliver on a slate of ambitious promises to improve the quality of early-childhood education for tens of thousands of low-income children who rely on a patchwork of publicly financed child-care and preschool programs.

EXCERPT FROM: The Times-News
By Chris Lavender
HAW RIVER — Jordan Claassen laughed and played with her classmates at Haw River Elementary School’s Pre-K class on Friday just before going to lunch.

EXCERPT FROM: STL Today
By Nancy Cambria
ST. LOUIS • An affiliation of five child day care centers that collectively receives nearly $1 million in state child care subsidies is under fire from regulators for potential violations that include failing to pay taxes, maintain building inspections and report accurate enrollment figures.

EXCERPT FROM: KSL.com
By Mary Richards
SALT LAKE CITY -- Countless studies have shown the benefit of preschool and all-day Kindergarten, but neither is required in the state of Utah. Some educators are saying they should be.