EdSource – Susan Frey
“The revision of the No Child Left Behind law has an increased level of support for early childhood education that advocates are calling “historic.” The revision — dubbed the Every Student Succeeds Act — makes permanent a grant program for early education and has a number of new provisions aimed at ensuring the effective use of resources among federal, state and local governments…For the first time since the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — currently referred to as NCLB — was implemented in 1965, the bill recognizes that early childhood education is important in federal and state efforts to close achievement gaps between low-income students and their peers…”(more)