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Reports & Research

California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being, 2012

KIDS COUNT Data Book, 2012

California Report Card, 2011-12

 

The Impact of Industry Self-Regulation on the Nutritional Quality of Foods Advertised on Television to Children, 2009

Educationally/Insufficient? An Analysis of the Availability & Educational Quality of Children’s E/I Programming, 2008

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Quality teacher training that responds to current, evidence-based research is crucial to offering the best learning environment for students. Social and emotional learning incorporated into instructional strategies increases achievement and positive classroom behavior.

Staff turnover is a critical threat to sustaining supportive relationships. Program operators struggle to retain staff at every level, which often results in poor continuity with respect to program goals and relationships with children and collaborating agencies.

Asthma hospitalizations and deaths are largely preventable and can be avoided with proper prevention and management. Only 35% of children with asthma, however, have received an asthma management plan from their health care provider.

 

Over one-third (39%) of California’s zero-to-five population live in families where the most knowledgeable adult does not speak English well.

For every $1 spent on immunizations, as much as $29 can be saved in direct and indirect costs.

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Children Now Statement on Supporting Propositions 30 and 38

Sep 14, 2012

SACRAMENTO, CA—Children Now announced today it is supporting both Propositions 30 and 38 on this November’s ballot, joining State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, California School Boards Association, Los Angeles Unified School District and many other leading education voices endorsing both initiatives. Ted Lempert, president of Children Now, states:

“Years of highly respected and unassailable research demonstrate that California schools are in need of significant additional resources and significant reform. What they certainly don’t need is further cuts, which will be the likely result if neither of these revenue measures passes.”

Last fall, Children Now led a range of education, business and community-based organizations in calling for only one revenue measure on the 2012 ballot that would focus on K-12 and early education and be coupled with significant education reforms.

“While Children Now will continue to advocate for both increased resources and major reform, in the short term it should be quite clear to any public school parent – and, for that matter, anyone who cares about the state’s future – that further cuts to education are unacceptable. For that reason, Children Now endorses both Propositions 30 and 38.”

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