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Early Childhood Education Budget Details- Gov. Northam’s Proposed Budget

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By Emily Griffey

As we learned from the exciting announcements from December 9th on maternal health and December 10th on early education, Governor Northam’s FY2021-2022 budget makes significant investments in healthy births and young children. These investments will help to close the opportunity gaps and help to ensure all children enter school healthy and ready to learn. Read more about the budget proposals here:

An additional $95 M to serve economically disadvantaged 3 & 4 year-olds in public and private preschool

Low-income families and children will benefit from additional support to attend preschool. Private preschool providers will benefit from tools and incentives to support mixed-delivery. Localities will benefit from additional in-kind contributions for local match and flexibility to collaborate among programs. These proposals include:

Additional early childhood system improvements include:

Reduce racial disparities in maternal health and improve healthy births


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