Contact: Maria Mejia | [email protected] | (510) 763-2444 ext. 108 Stark Achievement Gaps Require Urgent Action: California to Champion Early Learning, Provide True Opportunities to Learn and Effective Support OAKLAND—The release of today’s Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) scores shows more must be done to close the state’s persistent achievement gaps. California is one […]
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UNDER EMBARGO until Tuesday, September 25 at 12:01 a.m. ET Contact: Maria Mejia | [email protected] | (510) 763-2444 ext. 108 California Missing Opportunities to Give Young Adult Parents and Their Kids a Boost New Casey Foundation report illuminates needs and barriers facing California’s young parents and their children OAKLAND, Calif. — With limited access […]
Contact: Maria Mejia | [email protected] | (510) 763-2444 ext. 108 Undercount of California’s Young Children Would Threaten Recent Gains in Child Well-Being High risk of census undercount can render children and their needs invisible — and the state’s collective future uncertain OAKLAND—With 30 percent of California’s young children living in hard-to-count areas, there is a high risk […]
Contact: Maria Mejia, 510-763-2444 x108, [email protected] New Report Shows Urgent Need to Invest in Kids, Pre-Natal through Higher Ed OAKLAND, CA—Today Children Now released its 2018 California Children’s Report Card, which shows California isn’t doing enough to support the healthy development of children. More than 1.5 million infants and toddlers live in California families, of which […]
