1. THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
SUPPORTING
CHILDREN’S
SUCCESS

2. Why are Federal
Agencies so
involved in
programs that
support and
educate children
and families?
What are the
essential purposes
of federal programs
that serve young
children and their
families?
F
O
C How are Federal
Agencies
transforming
U early childhood
S education?
What are the
basic issues
involved in the
federal funding
and control of
early childhood?

3. REASONS
There is growing recognition by the
public and politicians that learning
begins at birth long before children
enter school.
What children learn or don’t learn
before they enter school helps
determine how successful they will
be in school.

4. Increasing numbers of working
parents want their children in
quality care and educational
programs.
Early childhood programs are being used
to care for children whose parents are
participating in work-training programs
as part of welfare reform.

5. The public
Politicians and
genuinely
public are
dissatisfied
cares about
with the
education and
growing number
is willing to
of children who
support it
are failing at
with higher
reading and
writing.
taxes.

6. “ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY
ACT OF 1964”
> Beginning of federal
political and financial support

7. NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND
ACT OF 2001
(NCLC ACT)
> Federal Law passed in 2001
that significantly influences
early childhood education.

8. Accountability
Professional
development
A focus on the
Parental
works
Education
technology
involvement
literacy
6 FUNDAMENTAL ARES
OF THE NCLB ACT

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President
george w. Bush
signed the bipartisan No Child
Left Behind Act (NCLB)
Brought the Republican and
Democrats to expand opportunities
for American children

10. * NCLB has worked for children of all
background, in every part of the
country
* NCLB put America’s School on a new
path of reform and a new path to
results, via four key principles

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Every child can learn, we expect every
child to learn, and we must hold ourselves
accountable for every child’s education.
Government must trust parents to make
the right decisions for their children.
NCLB established the principle that
Federal funding should be invested in
programs that have rigorous research
demonstrating their effectiveness.
The Federal government must trust
local educators and provide flexibility
to States and school districts.

12. > Strengthening NCLB for the
FUTURE
BUILDING ON RESULTS:
A Blueprint for
Strengthening the No
Child Left Behind Act

13. LITERACY AND READING
FIRST
> by ensuring that every
child can read on grade
level by the end of third
grade

14. TIMELINE OF MAJOR
FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR
EARLY CHILDHOOD TO UP
2010

15. Programs Administered Through the
Department of Health and Human
Services
>>> HEAD START( 1965)
-- Funded by U.S. Dept. of Health and
Human Services to provide children
from low-income families free access to
early education. It also includes children
who are at risk and with disabilities.

16. Five objectives for Head
Start in the Program
Performance Standards
>>> Enhance children’s growth and
development
>>> Strengthen families as the
primary nurturers of their children
>>> Provide children with educational, health
and nutritional services

17. >>> Link children and their
families to needed community
services
>>> Ensure well-managed programs
that involve parents in decision
making

18. Nine Standards of
Learning or indicators
for children enrolled in
Head Start
>>> Develop phonemic, print and
numeracy awareness
>>> Understand and use
language to communicate
for various purposes

19. >>> Understand and use increasing
complex and varies vocabulary
>>> Develop and demonstrate an
appreciation of books
>>> In the case of non-English
background
children, progress toward
acquisition of the English
language

20. >>> Knows that the letters OF the
alphabet are a special category of visual
graphics that can be individually named.
>>> Recognize a word as a unit
of print
>>> Identify at least ten letters of
the alphabet
>>> Associate sounds with
written words

21. The actual framework is
important because:
--- It specifies learning outcome
that are essential to children’s
success in school and in life
--- It assures that all Head Start
children in all Head Start programs will
have the same learning outcomes

22. --- It is and will
continue to impact what
children learn in all
preschool programs, not
just Head Start

23. Three Major Areas of GOOD
START, GROW SMART
Strengthen Head Start
Partnering with states to improve
early childhood education
Providing information to
teachers, caregivers, and
parents

24. Government`s role in education is to
support the implementation of the
expended schools project and
provide public schools with
recreational and learning
opportunities for all with a keen
focus on giving children an excellent
start in education. It also has an
important role in aiding schools
deliver their education strategy.

25. >>> EVEN START
TITLE I, PART B (1988)
-- Integrated early childhood education to lowincome parents for children birth through age
7, integrating adult education and early
childhood learning with family literacy
programs.
-- promote healthy prenatal care for
pregnant women, enhance the development
of very young children, and promote healthy
families

26. >>> early head start (1995)
-- Funded programs for
low-income families
supporting 2
generations, usually
mothers and infants and
toodlers.

27. >>> CHILD CARE
DEVELOPMENT FUND(CCDF)
--- provides funding to states for
child care, the majority of which is
spent of which is spent on care for
children ages five below
--- assists low-income families,
families receiving temporary
public assistance

28. >>> Temporary assistance for needy families( tanf)
--- administered through the
states, provides nearly $4 billion for child
care
--- a recent resolution extended the TANF
program through the end of 2002, allowing
states the continued flexibility to transfer
up to 30 percent of TANF funds to CCDF
and to spend additional TANF dollars
directly for child care

29. >>> social services block grant (ssbg)
--- funds a broad range of social
services and is another
significant federal funding source
of child care

30. Programs administered
through the department of
education
>>> title I ( education for the disadvantaged)
--- helps more than 300,000 children in
high-poverty communities enter
kindergarten with the skills they need
to succeed in school
--- many school districts are using this
program to support preschool programs

31. >>> early reading first
--- established in the No Child Left Behind
Act, provides competitive grants to school
districts and preschool programs, such as
Head Start centers
--- the grants fund the development of
model programs to support the school
readiness of pre-school-age
children, particularly those from lowincome families

32. >>> even start
--- is a family literacy program for lowincome families , particularly for parents
eligible for services under the Adult
Education and Family Literacy Act and their
children from from birth through age seven
--- it integrates early childhood
education, adult education, parenting
education, and integrative literacy
activities

33. >>> special education preschool grants and state
grants
--- along with 6 percent of Special
Education State Grants, provides formula
grants to states for special education and
related services for three to five-yearold with disabilities
--- it provides a bridge between
early intervention and elementary
services

34. >>> special education grants for infants and families
--- are formula grants that assist
states in implementing a
coordinated state wide system of
early intervention services to
children from birth through two
years old with disabilities and their
families

35. >>> the early childhood educator professional
development program
--- a competitive grant program enabling
early childhood educators and caregivers working in high-poverty
communities to participate in
professional development activities that
improve their knowledge and skills

36. Three sources of
Public Funding
for
PreKindergarten
Education

37. State Funding
In 2011, 39 states provided Pre-K funding (the
other 11 states were:
Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Mississippi, Mont
ana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming). In fact, more
children are enrolled in state funded PreKindergarten programs than in any other publicly
funding Pre-K program, though the per-student
amount varies dramatically in states from $2,000
to $11,000. State Pre-K funding goes to both
community based organizations and school
districts.

38. Federal Special Education
( IDEA) Funds for Pre-K
One way in which the federal DOE has shown
its commitment to early learning is by
increasing the funding to both IDEA for Pre-K
and federal Head Start over the last two
years. In addition, there are other federal
funding sources for Pre-K: social services
programs, like the federal Child Care and
Development fund, and federal Temporary
Assistance to Needy Families.

39. Federal Head Start
Funding
With the numbers of children in poverty
increasing and the need for more child
development/child care services for lowincome families increasing, it is essential
that Head Start be fully-funded to assure
school readiness for all eligible children. It
should be emphasized that parental
involvement, which benefits both parents
and children, is the critical component of
Head Start.

40. CHANGE
THE
SYSTEM

41. The struggle for education reforms
therefore goes side by side with the
task of creating bigger social
changes. It is anchored on the
struggle to transform an unjust
social system. In the long-run, we
would like an educational system
that
is nationalist, scientific, and massoriented.

42. Education is nationalist if it is “based
on the needs of the nation and the
goals of the nation.” As eloquently
said by Renato Constantino:
The object is not merely to produce
men and women who can read and
write or who can add and subtract.
The primary object is to produce a
citizenry that appreciates and is
conscious of its nationhood and has
national goals for the betterment of
the community.

43. Education is scientific if it
propagates scientific thinking
against superstition and
subjectivism, integrates theory
and practice, facilitates the free
exchange and sharing of critical
discourses, and contributes to
national industrialization and the
revival of domestic industries.

44. "Education Act of
1982"
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR
THE ESTABLISHMENT AND
MAINTENANCE OF AN
INTEGRATED SYSTEM OF
EDUCATION.
BATAS PAMBANSA BILANG
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45. K-12
Education

46. “We can attain a more
empowering education for
the people only if we
overhaul the rotten
system and change society
itself.”