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Kathi Skibness, Family Child Care Provider, Child Care Providers Together/Council 5, Minnesota

Kathi Skibness, Family Child Care Provider; Child Care Providers Together/Council 5, Minnesota

AFSCME members believe every child deserves quality care and education. That’s why millions of parents entrust us with their children every day. We teach and care for America’s next generation in homes, day care centers, pre-K classrooms, before- and after-school child care, and Head Start programs.

Early Childhood Education Employees Online Network

Join your brothers and sisters in the AFSCME Early Childhood Education Employees Network. We’ll discuss shared concerns, learn about what’s going on around the country and exchange information and ideas.

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  • Education Reform Starts Early: Lessons from New Jersey’s PreK-3rd Reform Efforts
    In 1998, the New Jersey Supreme Court took a then-unprecedented step. It ordered the state to provide high-quality pre-Kindergarten programs to all 3- and 4-year-old children in 31of the state’s highest poverty districts, also known as Abbott districts after the long-running Abbott v. Burke school finance case. Universal pre-K is only one of numerous mandates the court placed on the state and the Abbott districts in its 1998 ruling, but that requirement has had a far-reaching effect on the state’s early education system.
  • Milestone for Ohio Child Care Providers
    Gov. Ted Strickland (D) signed the first contract covering more than 8,000 in-home child care providers represented by Child Care Providers Together (CCPT)/Ohio Council 8.

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