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Start Early: Take a Stand on Pre-K
Target: 2008 Presidential Candidates
Sponsored by: Pre-K Now
Sponsored by: Pre-K Now
Access to high-quality pre-k shouldn't be about where a child lives or luck or family income. The proven and lasting benefits of quality pre-k should be available to all who want it.
Pre-k can raise academic achievement and graduation rates, reduce grade repetition and special education needs, and teach invaluable social skills and teamwork.
The presidential candidates must show leadership on this issue now by making pre-k a campaign priority. Ask the candidates what they will do to help all children start school ready to succeed.
Pre-k can raise academic achievement and graduation rates, reduce grade repetition and special education needs, and teach invaluable social skills and teamwork.
The presidential candidates must show leadership on this issue now by making pre-k a campaign priority. Ask the candidates what they will do to help all children start school ready to succeed.
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Dear Presidential Candidate, I believe that in order for any child to get a Head Start, in school they need to have a positive Pre-K education experience. Pre-K teaches the basics like how to use a pencil, colors, letters, and how to say words correctly that they might not hear correctly said by parents or caretakers. Now days with the melting pot society that we have children and being inundated with all sorts of languages and if even one child doesn't understand how to hear words correctly it can effect many people in the long run and in their life, all together. Think about it, if a person has broken English and doesn't enunciate clearly how well can you do business with them? Can you? In Pre- K students have the chance to start a healthy understanding of how words and even sentences are said. Thank you R Susan Stecks
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7:33 pm PDT, Apr 29,
Samantha Trosky, Illinois
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Being an educator myself, I know that preK is absolutely necessary for all children, especially those with special needs and those in poverty. Schools, such as those in NY, who do worse on academic tests are punished by receiving less aid from the state. Nearly all of those schools are for children in poverty, who come to school knowing less of what teachers want them to know (ex: basic reading skills, colors) this keeps the poor poor and makes the rich richer. A very disgusting act.
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I think that every child should have the oppurtunity to attend some Pre-k Education classes. As a mother of a young child I would not want my child to be denied a great start because of my families income or demographic area, how is that fair to my child who deserves to have a great jumpstart with her schooling? Please give all us parents who have young children who want the opportunity support. Thank you
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It is essential for us to provide our children with the tools they need to make them successful with learning in the later years. Research indicates the significance of pre-k.
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