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NC House passes bill to expand private school vouchers by $400 million, eligibility to all family incomes
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NC House passes bill to expand private school vouchers by $400 million, eligibility to all family incomes

The North Carolina House of Representatives moved to expand private school voucher eligibility to families all of incomes and spend nearly $400 million more annually on the vouchers in years to come — one of the biggest boosts in education dollars in years, an effort that is fueling an intense debate over how schools are funded.

After more than two hours of debate, the House passed House Bill 823 by a 65-to-45 vote Wednesday. It now heads to the Senate for review, where an identical bill has already passed the Senate Education/Higher Education committee.

House Bill 823 would make vouchers

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Insufficient preschool education in China needs reform

Author: Bingqin Li, UNSW

Preschool education in China needs to improve in quality and shift away from quantitative growth. While the government is increasing investment, growth in the supply of preschool education is far from meeting the needs of families.

Children play at a kindergarten in Fuyang, China, 28 February 2023 (Photo: Reuters/Sipa USA).

In China, preschool education is split into early childhood education for 0 to 3 year-olds and kindergarten for 4 to 6 year-olds. At the end of 2021, the total kindergarten enrollment rate reached 88.1 per cent of the eligible population. Among enrollments, 87.8 per cent were able to register in government subsidized kindergartens. In contrast, early childhood education — including

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Most Santa Barbara County Kids Aren’t Prepared for Kindergarten. Is More Playtime the Solution?
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Most Santa Barbara County Kids Aren’t Prepared for Kindergarten. Is More Playtime the Solution?

More time spent on the playground could mean the difference between flourishing or flunking out for Santa Barbara County’s students. It’s a point that has been echoed repeatedly by researchers and parenting blogs alike: Young children need to play to learn.

As the First 5 Santa Barbara County (the county’s Children and Families Commission) narrows its focus on the concept of school readiness for kids in the first five years of their lives, school board members and school governance teams discussed play as an important method to support early childhood development and future achievement in school during First 5’s biennial

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Editorial Board Announced for 2023 – PHE America
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Editorial Board Announced for 2023 – PHE America

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PHE America has announced its editorial board members for 2023. The Editorial Board is composed of professionals in higher education interested in serving as reviewers to offer writers constructive feedback in preparing their articles for publication. Editorial Board members serve both PHE America and Sport Coach America.

The six-member board includes Brian Sather, a professor at Eastern Oregon University; Editor-in-Chief, Pete Van Mullema professor at Lewis-Clark State College and director of Sport Coach America; Rory Weishaaran associate professor at Central Washington University; Jessica Savagean instructor at Lewis-Clark State College; Aubrey Shaw, an academic program advisor

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Kindergarten ‘social science’ curriculum in Oregon district instructs 4-year-olds on neo-pronouns
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Kindergarten ‘social science’ curriculum in Oregon district instructs 4-year-olds on neo-pronouns

A “social science” curriculum for kindergarten to 5th graders in an Oregon school district instructs them on neo-pronouns.

Per documents that Fox News Digital has obtained show details of the “social sciences” curriculum administered by the Beaverton School District in Oregon.

Listed under the Lesson 1 Activities section in the Beaverton School District K-5 Elementary Social Sciences curriculum and “Activity 7” are the picture books “They, She, He, Me: Free to Be!” by Matthew Smith-Gonzalez and Maya Christina Gonzalez and the other is “The Pronoun” book by Chris Ayala-Kronos.

These books are listed as “optional.”

FLORIDA SCHOOL DISTRICT BANS BOOK

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Kentucky receives $36 million to assist put together children for kindergarten
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Kentucky receives $36 million to assist put together children for kindergarten

Practically $12 million will go towards educating Kentucky’s youngest kids every year for the following three years, because of a federal grant targeted on making ready children for kindergarten.

Whereas holding her toddler daughter, Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman introduced the $36 million grant from the Workplace of Early Childhood Improvement throughout a press convention Thursday.

“Our youngest learners deserve the perfect begin potential at school and in life, and this funding will make a distinction for our children, but it surely’s additionally going to spice up our workforce and our financial system,” Coleman mentioned. “It’s going to permit our mother

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