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Webster CELC is located at Webster Elementary School, 3400 Frankford Ave.
reorganization undergoing
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The PFT
has advocated consistently for expansion of early learning
opportunities because research shows that
early childhood education is key to
children's academic success.
Where: Outside of the Webster
Comprehensive Early Learning Center
2000 block of Ontario Street, near Frankford Avenue
The PFT represents 18,000 teachers, librarians, counselors, nurses, social
workers, psychologists
, classroom assistants, non-teaching assistants,
secretaries, Head Start and Comprehensive Early Learning
Center teachers and
staff, professional-technical employees and food service managers working in
Philadelphia public schools.
ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts
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Linda Mason is Chairman of the Board for Bright Horizons Family
Solutions
, the world's leading provider of early education and
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Parents, staff,
civic groups and union leaders will meet
with the media near the Ontario Street entrance. After serving
as a research
psychologist in the Early Childhood Education Research Group at
Educational Testing
Service, Bracey became the Associate Director of
the Institute for Child Study at Indiana University
in Bloomington.arising accessing
The report suggests expanding more programs such as Smart Start, which
provides
poor children with access to preschool education, to more
states across the country.universally engages
The program
also includes Teen Parent Centers, which provide childcare so that
young parents can finish high
school.
For more information, please contact Barbara Goodman, PFT communications
director
, at 215-587-6738. Mason was the recipient of the 1999 Caring
Corporation Award from the Child Care
Action Campaign in recognition
of her advocacy for better early childhood education. Gerald Bracey
, of George Mason University, obtained a Ph.childcare kin
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Who:
Philadelphia Federation of Teachers with the NAACP, Parents,
Staff
What: News
Conference
When: Monday, June 13 3:30 p.accessing rational
"Parents will be forced to pay thousands of
dollars a year out-of-pocket
for babysitting instead of education," Kirsch said.undergoing ncpc
PHILADELPHIA
, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
President Ted Kirsch and Vice President Jerry T. "We are fighting
to
maintain high-quality educational opportunities for children provided by
trained, experienced
professional staff.
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Jordan and local NAACP leader
Jerry Mondesire will hold a news conference
on Monday, June 13, at 3:30 p.
"The School District of Philadelphia's decision to phase out this
program
is shortsighted and will hurt children and working parents, widen the
achievement gap
and perpetuate the cycle of low-paying, high-turnover
childcare jobs," Kirsch said. However, submissions
are always open throughout the Open Directory Project.
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The School Reform
Commission plans to close
the remaining 27 centers by June 30, 2006."
The PFT will be working with the NAACP, parents
and staff to urge city
and state elected leaders to fund and strengthen the CELC, Teen Parent and
before- and after-school childcare programs.
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"If the measure of a society is how it treats its old and young, it is
particularly
tragic when - in the face of research showing the enormous value
of early learning - we cut the programs
that prepare children for school,"
Jordan added. Mason was one of the founders of The Bright
Horizons
Foundation for Children, which aids nonprofit agencies that
work with at-risk children in communities
where Bright Horizons
employees live and work.kith arising
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The National Governors
Association released a report that
recommends states do more to offer early childhood education,
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with the staff and parents of the Webster Comprehensive Early Learning Center,
one of 18 centers
closing at the end of the school year..
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Professor Samuel Meisels, of the University
of Michigan, School of
Education, is an expert regarding performance assessment in early
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and elementary schools, impact of standardized tests on
young children and survey of comparative
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"CELC provides working parents with safe, supervised, educational
settings
in which to leave their infants, toddlers and pre-kindergartners," he said. Mason co-founded
Bright Horizons in 1986 and served as
President until 1998. PR Contact: Leah
Lesser, 617-673-8020
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