 | The crafting and passage of Senate Bill 19, which removes all barriers to the use of achievement data linked to individual teachers and principals for the purpose of evaluation, a critical step in ensuring that California is eligible to compete for the federal Race to the Top education funding. |
 | Assembly Bill 2759, co-sponsored by Children Now and signed into law in 2008, increases the efficiency of California’s preschool system, providing thousands more children with access to programs. |
| The 2008 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being is an innovative online tool enabling the discovery of best practices in improving children’s well-being; it’s another example of the critical role Children Now plays in researching and bringing attention to children’s issues. See it at http://www.childrennow.org/scorecard.
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| Senate Bill 1629, co-sponsored by Children Now and signed into law in 2008, introduces stronger accountability measures to improve early care and education program quality for over 1.7 million California children. |
| Senate Bill 1298, co-sponsored by Children Now and signed into law in 2008, initiates the data system needed to improve all children’s educational achievement. All of the nearly 6.6 million children in early care and K-12 education in California will benefit. |
 | After attending a national Children Now conference on children’s educational programming, FCC Commissioners champion federal policy expanding the quantity of children’s educational programming. The policy went into effect in 2007 and is credited to the work of Children Now. |
 | Senate Bill 437, co-sponsored by Children Now and signed into law in 2006, streamlines the enrollment process for public children’s health insurance in California, so tens of thousands more children get the coverage that’s available to them. |
| Assembly Bill 172, co-sponsored by Children Now and signed into law in 2006, expands preschool programs, resulting in 12,000 more slots being created for children. |
| Senate Bill 638, co-sponsored by Children Now and signed into law in 2006, protects and implements the voter-approved Proposition 49, equitably expanding after school programs to hundreds of thousands more children throughout California. |
 | Dora the Explorer is the first Latina cartoon heroine, instead of the rabbit that was originally planned for the show, because Nickelodeon executive Brown Johnson attended a national Children Now conference on the lack of diversity in children’s shows. |
 | Launched in 1998, Children Now’s “Talking with Kids About Tough Issues” has helped hundreds of thousands of parents speak to their children about drugs, sex, violence and other difficult issues. |