THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORTING CHILDREN’S

SUCCESS

Why are Federal

Agencies so involved in

programs that support and

educate children and

families?How are Federal

Agencies transforming

early childhood education?

What are the essential

purposes of federal programs that serve young children and their

families?

What are the basic issues

involved in the federal funding and control of

early childhood?

FOCUS

There is growing recognition by the public and politicians that learning begins at birth long before children enter school.

REASONS

What children learn or don’t learn before they enter school helps

determine how successful they will be in school.

Increasing numbers of working parents want their children in quality care and educational

programs.

Early childhood programs are being used to care for children whose

parents are participating in work-training programs as part of welfare

reform.

Politicians and public are

dissatisfied with the growing

number of children who are failing at reading and

writing.

The public genuinely

cares about education

and is willing to support it with higher

taxes.

“ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1964”

> Beginning of federal political and financial

support

NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND ACT OF 2001

(NCLC ACT)

> Federal Law passed in 2001 that significantly influences early childhood education.

6 FUNDAMENTAL ARES OF THE NCLB

ACT

Accountability

literacy

A focus on the works

Professional development

Education technology

Parental involvement

President george w. Bush2

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> signed the bipartisan No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB)

> Brought the Republican and Democrats to expand opportunities for American children

* NCLB has worked for children of all background, in every part of the

country

* NCLB put America’s School on a new path of reform and a new path

to results, via four key principles

4 KEY PRINCIPLES

Every child can learn, we expect every child to learn, and we must hold ourselves accountable for every child’s education.Government must trust parents to make the right decisions for their children. NCLB established the principle that Federal funding should be invested in programs that have rigorous research demonstrating their effectiveness. 

The Federal government must trust local educators and provide flexibility to States and school districts. 

> Strengthening NCLB for the FUTURE

BUILDING ON RESULTS:

A Blueprint for Strengthening the No Child Left Behind Act

LITERACY AND READING FIRST

> by ensuring that every child can read on grade level by the end of third grade

TIMELINE OF MAJOR FEDERAL PROGRAMS

FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD TO UP 2010

Programs Administered Through the Department of Health and Human Services

>>> HEAD START( 1965)

-- Funded by U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services to provide children from low-income families free access to early education. It also includes children who are at risk and with disabilities.

Five objectives for Head Start in the Program

Performance Standards

>>> Enhance children’s growth and development

>>> Strengthen families as the primary nurturers of their children

>>> Provide children with educational, health and nutritional services

>>> Link children and their families to needed community services

>>> Ensure well-managed programs that involve parents in decision making

Nine Standards of Learning or indicators for children enrolled in

Head Start>>> Develop phonemic, print and numeracy awareness

>>> Understand and use language to communicate for various purposes

>>> Understand and use increasing complex and varies vocabulary

>>> Develop and demonstrate an appreciation of books

>>> In the case of non-English background children, progress toward acquisition of the English language

>>> Knows that the letters OF the alphabet are a special category of visual graphics that can be individually named. >>> Recognize a word as a

unit of print

>>> Identify at least ten letters of the alphabet

>>> Associate sounds with written words

The actual framework is important because:

--- It specifies learning outcome that are essential to children’s success in school and in life

--- It assures that all Head Start children in all Head Start programs will have the same learning outcomes

--- It is and will continue to impact

what children learn in all preschool

programs, not just Head Start

Three Major Areas of GOOD START, GROW

SMARTStrengthen Head Start

Partnering with states to improve early childhood education

  Providing information to teachers, caregivers, and parents

 

Government`s role in education is to support the implementation of the expended schools project and provide public schools with

recreational and learning opportunities for all with a keen

focus on giving children an excellent start in education. It also

has an important role in aiding schools deliver their education

strategy.

>>> EVEN START TITLE I, PART B (1988)

-- Integrated early childhood education to low-income parents for children birth through age 7, integrating adult education and early childhood learning with family literacy programs.

-- promote healthy prenatal care for pregnant women, enhance the development of very young children, and promote healthy families

>>> early head start (1995)

-- Funded programs for low-income families supporting 2 generations, usually mothers and infants and toodlers.

>>> CHILD CARE DEVELOPMENT FUND(CCDF)

--- provides funding to states for child care, the majority of which is spent of which is spent on care for children ages five below

--- assists low-income families, families receiving temporary public assistance

>>> Temporary assistance for needy families( tanf)

--- administered through the states, provides nearly $4 billion for child care

--- a recent resolution extended the TANF program through the end of 2002, allowing states the continued flexibility to transfer up to 30 percent of TANF funds to CCDF and to spend additional TANF dollars directly for child care

>>> social services block grant (ssbg)

--- funds a broad range of social services and is another significant federal funding source of child care

Programs administered through the department of education

>>> title I ( education for the disadvantaged)

--- helps more than 300,000 children in high-poverty communities enter kindergarten with the skills they need to succeed in school

--- many school districts are using this program to support preschool programs

>>> early reading first

--- established in the No Child Left Behind Act, provides competitive grants to school districts and preschool programs, such as Head Start centers

--- the grants fund the development of model programs to support the school readiness of pre-school-age children, particularly those from low-income families

>>> even start

--- is a family literacy program for low-income families , particularly for parents eligible for services under the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act and their children from from birth through age seven--- it integrates early childhood education, adult education, parenting education, and integrative literacy activities

>>> special education preschool grants and state grants

--- along with 6 percent of Special Education State Grants, provides formula grants to states for special education and related services for three to five-year-old with disabilities

--- it provides a bridge between early intervention and elementary services

>>> special education grants for infants and families

--- are formula grants that assist states in implementing a coordinated state wide system of early intervention services to children from birth through two years old with disabilities and their families

>>> the early childhood educator professional development program

--- a competitive grant program enabling early childhood educators and care-givers working in high-poverty communities to participate in professional development activities that improve their knowledge and skills

Three sources of Public Funding

for Pre-

Kindergarten Education

State FundingIn 2011, 39 states provided Pre-K funding (the other 11 states were: Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming).  In fact, more children are enrolled in state funded Pre-Kindergarten programs than in any other publicly funding Pre-K program, though the per-student amount varies dramatically in states from $2,000 to $11,000.  State Pre-K funding goes to both community based organizations and school districts.

Federal Special Education ( IDEA) Funds for Pre-K

One way in which the federal DOE has shown its commitment to early learning is by increasing the funding to both IDEA for Pre-K and federal Head Start over the last

two years.  In addition, there are other federal funding sources for Pre-K: social services programs, like the federal Child Care and Development fund, and federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. 

Federal Head Start Funding

With the numbers of children in poverty increasing and the need for more child

development/child care services for low-income families increasing, it is

essential that Head Start be fully-funded to assure school readiness for all eligible children. It should be emphasized that parental involvement, which benefits

both parents and children, is the critical component of Head Start.

CHANGE THE SYSTE

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The struggle for education reforms therefore goes side by side with the task of creating bigger social changes. It is anchored on the struggle to

transform an unjust social system. In the long-run, we would like an

educational system that is nationalist, scientific,

and mass-oriented.

Education is nationalist if it is “based on the needs of the nation and the goals of the nation.” As

eloquently said by Renato Constantino:

The object is not merely to produce men and women who can read and write or who can add and subtract. The primary object is to produce a citizenry that appreciates and is conscious of its nationhood and

has national goals for the betterment of the community.

Education is scientific if it propagates scientific thinking

against superstition and subjectivism, integrates theory and practice, facilitates the free exchange and sharing of critical

discourses, and contributes to national industrialization

and the revival of domestic industries.

"Education Act of 1982" 

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE

ESTABLISHMENT AND MAINTENANCE OF AN INTEGRATED SYSTEM

OF EDUCATION.BATAS PAMBANSA

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K-12 Education

“We can attain a more empowering education for the people only if

we overhaul the rotten system and change

society itself.”