[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image img_size=”overlap-medium” alignment=”center” image=”6724″ animation=”fadeInUp”][wyde_heading subheading_tag=”h3″ style=”2″ title=”Statement from Prichard Committee: Pension Stress Must Not Harm Student Success” subheading=”Pension Solution Needed for Kentucky Colleges” animation=”slideInLeft”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInLeft”]July 15<\/b>, 2019<\/b><\/p>\n
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The work is being done by the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence, in partnership with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Division of Child Care.<\/p>\n Louisville\u2019s has undertaken a pilot, headed by Cori Gadansky, executive director of Community Coordinated Child Care and Terry Tolan, consultant with the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, to support the\u00a0work of Spanish-speaking family child care homes and communities, to both enhance quality for existing providers and to recruit more providers for infant and toddler care.<\/p>\n These organizations are working in partnership with Ready for K Alliance, Metro United Way, Community Coordinated Child Care, Passport Health, Americana Community Center, La Casita, Doors to Hope, Child Care Aware, C, E, & S Foundation, Lift-a-Life Foundation, and the James Graham Brown Foundation.<\/p>\n The team with Community Coordinated Child Care is working on an ambitious program that will provide supporting services, opportunities for training, and other professional development in Spanish.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are pleased to have this opportunity to support our Spanish-speaking family child care providers, who help improve the kindergarten readiness of the children in their care,\u201d said Ms. Gadansky.<\/p>\n \u201cQuality early learning, when the brain is developing most rapidly, is the most important precursor to success in school and life,\u201d said Brigitte Blom Ramsey, executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence. \u201cWe look forward to learning from the implementation of these pilots as we seek to contribute to national best practices to expand access to quality, home-based child care for more youngsters and their families.\u201d<\/p>\n ###<\/span><\/p>\n The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence <\/b>is an independent, nonpartisan, citizen-led organization working to improve education in Kentucky \u2013 early childhood through postsecondary.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image img_size=”overlap-medium” alignment=”center” image=”6724″ animation=”fadeInUp”][wyde_heading subheading_tag=”h3″ style=”2″ title=”Statement from Prichard Committee: Pension Stress Must Not Harm Student Success” subheading=”Pension Solution Needed for Kentucky Colleges” animation=”slideInLeft”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInLeft”]July 15, 2019 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: Brigitte Blom Ramsey, Executive Director (office) 859-233-9849 (cell) 859-322-8999[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]Louisville, KY – Increasing the availability of quality family child care<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"passster_activate_protection":false,"passster_protect_child_pages":"","passster_protection_type":"password","passster_password":"","passster_activate_overwrite_defaults":"","passster_headline":"","passster_instruction":"","passster_placeholder":"","passster_button":"","passster_id":"","passster_activate_misc_settings":"","passster_redirect_url":"","passster_hide":"no","passster_area_shortcode":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-press-release"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5861,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4846\/revisions\/5861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prichard-backup.com\/July\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>For more information, contact:
\n<\/span><\/i>Brigitte Blom Ramsey, Executive Director
\n<\/b>(office) 859-233-9849
\n<\/span>(cell) 859-322-8999<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text animation=”fadeInRight”]Louisville, KY – Increasing the availability of quality family child care for infants and toddlers in the state\u2019s underserved areas is the focus of pilot programs now underway in Eastern Kentucky.<\/p>\n