For just over ten years and the three third, twothirds go to the School District, onethird goes to the preschool for all, the First Five Commission. And just the theme, just to restate, has been transformative. It was hard to know at that point what was going to happen to Public Education in the state and including in our city. A few years after peef resources started to ramp up, but the thought back then was we needed to do more to support and really invest in education of the students in the public schools. And little did we know how critical that those investments would become, especially in light of the gold recession that took place in 2008 that were still recovering from. These are some of the achievements that have happened through peef. These are such a partial list. There are so many critical things that have happened through these investments over the last ten years. Ill just go through these very quickly. So, heres a visual of what one of our School Libraries looked like bef
Have been partners with me to achieve this. So, i also think it would be great to include 3 and 4 year olds in preschool. We know that children with 2 years of high quality preschool exponentially better than those that have one. Again, we cannot accomplish this with the current allocation so im glad to hear that were going to have more funding available. [speaker not understood] subsidized children to have access but we have to continue to invest in highquality improvement efforts and professional development. I wasnt going to say this. Forgive me, barbara. I love that were investing in our Young Children and in child care and [speaker not understood] care, but if we wanted to be an even greater city, we would need a targeted universal Home Visiting program, targeted universal health and developmental screening program, additional implemental subsidies that include middle lowincome and middle income families and equality Improvement Initiative that build on the lessons we learn from p
So, i also think it would be great to include 3 and 4 year olds in preschool. We know that children with 2 years of high quality preschool exponentially better than those that have one. Again, we cannot accomplish this with the current allocation so im glad to hear that were going to have more funding available. [speaker not understood] subsidized children to have access but we have to continue to invest in highquality improvement efforts and professional development. I wasnt going to say this. Forgive me, barbara. I love that were investing in our Young Children and in child care and [speaker not understood] care, but if we wanted to be an even greater city, we would need a targeted universal Home Visiting program, targeted universal health and developmental screening program, additional implemental subsidies that include middle lowincome and middle income families and equality Improvement Initiative that build on the lessons we learn from pfa and state quality [speaker not understood
To invest in highquality improvement efforts and professional development. I wasnt going to say this. Forgive me, barbara. I love that were investing in our Young Children and in child care and [speaker not understood] care, but if we wanted to be an even greater city, we would need a targeted universal Home Visiting program, targeted universal health and developmental screening program, additional implemental subsidies that include middle lowincome and middle income families and equality Improvement Initiative that build on the lessons we learn from pfa and state quality [speaker not understood]. So, thank you. Thank you, ms. Kumar. Good afternoon, supervisors. Im Barbara Carlson and im the director of the office of early current education and to supplement what laurel said, while Early Education opportunities have improved tremendously for the citys 4 year olds, significant opportunity gaps still remain for children aged 0 to 3. Were hlsd the legislation addresses those issues ~. If
Kodiak loves its city parks and has a lot to say about them. Its love for Baranof Park is apparent in the results of last month’s Parks and Recreation Department