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Cuts to Quality Early Childhood Funding Pose a Risk-vs.-Gain Problem for Taxpayers

by First Five Nebraska | Mar 29 2018 | Legislation

Nebraska’s Corrections system has been the subject of urgent discussion in the Legislature given its insufficient facilities, prison rioting and workforce instability. Reducing state funding for Sixpence and other quality early childhood programs represents a very small savings to taxpayers in the larger scheme of things. If even a few young children at risk eventually drift into the Corrections system, it will be too late to ask ourselves if those savings were worth it.

Legislature Advances Budget Bill with Cuts to Early Childhood Programs

by First Five Nebraska | Mar 15 2018 | Legislation

Bill contains cuts to the Sixpence Early Learning Fund, the Early Childhood Grant Program and Step Up to Quality. The small gains obtained from reductions to early care and education are likely to be lost by resulting future increased costs of special education services, grade retention and youth detention/rehabilitation services.

Sixpence Debuts New Website

by First Five Nebraska | Apr 6 2017 | Child Care, Child Development, Quality, Sixpence

Sixpence Early Learning Fund has given thousands of Nebraska infants and toddlers at risk a stronger start in life by promoting high-quality early learning opportunities. It recently launched a new website as part of its 10-year anniversary celebration.

Broken Bow Sixpence: A Model of Quality in Rural Nebraska

by First Five Nebraska | Nov 17 2016 | General

Broken Bow Sixpence and partners offer high-quality education to prepare children at risk for lifelong success.

First School-Child Care Partnership Grants Awarded

by First Five Nebraska | Mar 31 2016 | Legislation

Falls City, Kearney, North Platte, Chadron, Sidney and Gering receive new Sixpence grants to create School-Child Care Partnerships that will serve nearly 600 infants and toddlers, more than half are at risk of arriving at school prepared to learn.

Flexibility Matters

by First Five Nebraska | Mar 10 2016 | General

Home child care providers, child care centers, Head Start programs, school-based preschools, faith-based programs and others all have a place in ensuring that Nebraska's children at risk have access to quality opportunities during their earliest years.

Our Public-Private Partnership Provides High-Quality Learning Experiences for Our Youngest Citizens

by First Five Nebraska | Nov 12 2015 | General

NHHS Director Courtney Phillips: Nebraska's Department of Health and Human Services has begun to implement policies that incentivize child care providers to improve their program quality, meaning more children at risk who utilize these services may have access to the kinds of environments that close the achievement gap.

New Sixpence School-Child Care Provider Partnerships a Game Changer

by First Five Nebraska | Oct 2 2015 | Legislation

The Sixpence Board of Trustees announced a new grant opportunity this week that transforms how communities can work together to support early learning opportunities.

Early Childhood Highlights from Nebraska’s 2015 Legislative Session

by First Five Nebraska | Jun 4 2015 | Legislation

Balancing a wide variety of public interests and with great bipartisan support, the Nebraska Legislature again recognized the critical importance of children’s early years prior to adjourning the 2015 legislative session on May 29. Of preeminent importance to First Five Nebraska is public policy that recognizes the development of the brain in the early years literally shapes the learning capacity for the rest of a child’s life. Here's a summary of our highest priority bills from the 2015 legislative session.

Senators Campbell and Sullivan: Unique LB547 Partnerships Will Reach More At-Risk Children

by First Five Nebraska | May 28 2015 | Legislation

With true bipartisanship, Nebraska senators passed and Governor Ricketts signed legislation to allow partnership between child care providers and schools to help young children receive the kinds of early experiences known to foster cognitive and character skills that lead to success in school and life.

Governor Ricketts Signs Budget, Stabilizes Funding for Early Childhood Education

by First Five Nebraska | May 21 2015 | Uncategorized

The budget stabilizes future funding for Sixpence, Nebraska’s birth to age 3 early learning fund and increases funding for incentives and bonuses in Step Up to Quality.

Nancy Perez: Sixpence Parent Educator

by First Five Nebraska | May 15 2015 | General

Nancy Perez was introduced to Sixpence as a teenager when pregnancy complications forced her to drop out of school. Through Sixpence, she discovered her passion for early chlidhood education, and now is a Sixpence parent educator. She was the first parent educator in Nebraska to receive a perfect score on the HoVRS, which the University of Nebraska Medical Center administers to evaluate parent coaches and they support they give.

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