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Webster CELC is located at Webster Elementary School, 3400 Frankford Ave.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Who: Philadelphia Federation of Teachers with the NAACP, Parents,
Staff
What: News Conference
When: Monday, June 13 3:30 p.

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"Parents will be forced to pay thousands of dollars a year out-of-pocket
for babysitting instead of education," Kirsch said.

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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
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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.

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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.

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The National Governors Association released a report that
recommends states do more to offer early childhood education,
according to an article by The Associated Press.

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with the staff and parents of the Webster Comprehensive Early Learning Center,
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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 , llesser@brighthorizons.

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