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Parent
Support & Education Action Team host a
PARENT CONFERENCE
When: Saturday, July 31, 2010
10:00 a.m. -
1:00 p.m.
Where: Don Bosco Hall
Community Center
19321
West Chicago
Detroit, MI
Download the flyer
CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION
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PRESS CONFERENCE: Release
of the "How Are the Children?" Updated Report
When: Friday, July 30, 2010
10:00 a.m.
Where: University of Michigan-Dearborn
Fairlane Center, Dining Room-D
19000 Hubbard Drive
Dearborn, MI
Download the Media Advisory
Download
"How are the Children?" Report |
Granholm budget maintains
funding for early childhood, but with a troubling
exception
Governor Jennifer Granholm’s fiscal year 2011 budget is
a mixed bag of relief and concern for early childhood
advocates. While the budget maintains funding for most
early childhood programs, it eliminates the state’s only
mental health program for children 0-5.The Child Care
Enhancement Program (CCEP) serves high-risk children
with social-emotional and behavioral challenges who are
in danger of being expelled from child care. The FY 2010
budget includes $1.8 million for those infant and
toddler mental health services.
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Wayne
County Parent Coalition and the Advocacy Committee host:
A PUBLIC POLICY FORUM
When: Friday, July 30, 2010
11:00 a.m. - 2:00
p.m.
Where: University of Michigan-Dearborn
19000 Hubbard Drive
Dearborn, MI
Download the flyer
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER ONLINE |
Ensuring Michigan kids are
ready for school pays big dividends, new study shows
State spending over the past 25 years to educate
Michigan children before they even get to kindergarten
saved taxpayers $1.15 billion last year, an
economic-impact study released today by St. Paul-based
Wilder Research shows. The study is the first of its
kind in Michigan to document the economic benefits of
adequately preparing low-income children over such a
broad array of sectors, including K-12 education,
government spending and tax revenues, public safety and
health, and the economy. Read
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