[Dec-kentucky] FW: Call Congress on March 4 for Child Care and Head Start Funding

[Elizabeth McLaren]

Please take a moment to contact your senators and representatives about this
funding issue.

 

Forwarded on behalf of KY DEC. 

 

Elizabeth McLaren, Ed.D.

Assistant Professor

Email: e.mclaren at moreheadstate.edu

Phone: 606-783-2537

Fax: 606-783-5044

Morehead State University

Curriculum and Instruction

A301F Ginger Hall

Morehead KY 40351

 

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From: NAEYC Children's Champions [mailto:advocacy at naeyc.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 3:41 PM
To: Elizabeth McLaren
Subject: Call Congress on March 4 for Child Care and Head Start Funding

 



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NAEYC Children's Champions Alert
March 3, 2008 

Call Congress on March 4 for Child Care and Head Start Funding 

See below for toll-free number 

Across the country, advocates such as yourself and others who care about
young children are calling Congress tomorrow as a "virtual march" to urge
U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives to provide increased funding for Head
Start and child care.

For seven years, both child care and Head Start have been flat funded. The
Administration has proposed no new funding for the Child Care & Development
Block Grant, which according to its own tables would mean that 200,000 fewer
children would have child care assistance in fiscal year 2009 than in fiscal
year 2007. Although the Administration proposed an increase of $148 million
for Head Start, that amount barely meets inflation and does nothing to help
pay for the quality improvements in the recent bipartisan reauthorization of
the Head Start Act. 

What is the funding request?

For the Child Care & Development Block Grant, $874 million increase - this
represents the amount of inflation adjustments not made over the last seven
years. 

For Head Start, $1.072 billion increase - this represents the amount needed
to make up for flat funding, the cut in the most recent appropriation, and a
down-payment on the new requirements in the recent bipartisan
reauthorization of the program.

How to call:

Use the toll-free number 1-888-460-0813 (provided by AFSCME) and ask to
speak to your Senators and Representative. If it is busy, you can call the
Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or 202-225-3121 and ask for your
Senators and Representative. If you need to find who they are, go to
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Why call now?

This is the time that Congress makes decisions about the budget and starts
to consider individual program funding levels. It is important that your
members of Congress hear directly from you - their constituent - on the
importance of the federal investment in child care and Head Start. 

 

National Partners for March 4th are: National Association for the Education
of Young Children, National Women's Law Center, National Association of
Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies, American Federal State County
Municipal Employees, American Federation of Teachers, Center for Law and
Social Policy, Child Welfare League of America, Children's Defense Fund,
Coalition for Human Needs, Community Action Partnership, Early Care &
Education Consortium, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, Early Childhood and
Education Consortium, MomsRising, National Association of Family Child Care,
National Coalition for Campus Centers, National Council of Jewish Women,
National Education Association, National Head Start Association, National
Indian Child Care Association, National Indian Head Start Directors
Association, National Migrant & Seasonal Head Start Association, OMEP-USNC,
PreK Now, RESULTS, Service Employees International Union, Sisters of Charity
Nazareth Congregational Leader, Union of Reform Judaism, USAction, Voices
for America's Children, Wider Opportunities for Women, and YWCA USA. 

 

 


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