The Common Start Coalition is a statewide partnership of organizations, providers, parents, early educators and advocates working together to make…
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Gov. DeSantis recently signed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill into law. Public school teachers in FL are banned from holding…
The Florida House’s Education Committee advance a bill (HB1193) that would increase the number of state mandated standardized assessments in…
The recently introduced New Mexico SB 0000 requires 30 minutes of recess for grades K-3. https://www.nmlegis.gov/Sessions/22%20Regular/bills/senate/prefile/221511.2.pdf
Despite the fact that the federal government only mandates standardized testing for 3rd grade and up, the Illinois State Board…
(Re)connecting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) to land and nature in Baltimore City. The BLISS Meadows project is…
Pilot program to increase recess time continues. In 2020, parents in Montgomery County, Maryland asked the county for a pilot…
MDAEYC is the statewide affiliate of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Vision Statement All young…
On January 19, 2022, the Maryland State Legislature introduced a Bill to launch an Outdoor Preschool Licensing Pilot. Here is…
The Opt Out Florida Network is not “anti-testing”. The Opt Out Florida Network supports multiple measures of authentic assessments (like portfolios, project-based…