U.S. group urges $40 bln/yr more for early education
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The U.S. government should spend $40 billion more per year on intensive early childhood education akin to "Head Start on steroids," Brookings Institution economists proposed on Wednesday.
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A bipartisan panel of governors has recommended that states expand access to pre-kindergarten and push for early childhood education efforts if they want to properly prepare kids for school.
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Ontario should use new federal day-care cash to turn the current &quot;mishmash&quot; of day care, parent resource and kindergarten programs for 4- and 5-year-olds into a single program for all children, says a study to be released today.
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OTTAWA - Federal and provincial officials hope to lay the groundwork for a national early childhood education and child-care program when they meet in Ottawa on Tuesday.
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A special commission is urging the government to raise federal gasoline taxes by as much as 40 cents per gallon as part of an overhaul  to ease traffic and repair roads
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The stateâs voluntary public preschool program, which 70 percent of 4-year-olds attend, is one of the most serious attempts to deal with economic inequality anywhere in the country.
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A $1 billion reading program that is   a key part of the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind   education law was mismanaged and rife with conflicts of   interest, according to an internal audit released on Friday.
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Sending children to nursery school gives them a major head start in the three Rs, research reveals today. The government-backed study will be welcomed by working parents who spend up to Â£900 a month on nurseries and playgroups.
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A government campaign will seek to encourage people to upgrade their skills through education and training.
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The United States spent an average of $8,701 per pupil to educate its children in 2005, the Census Bureau said on Thursday, with some states paying more than twice as much per student as others.
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Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards rolled out a program for reforming primary education in the United States on Friday, proposing to pay teachers up to $15,000 more in high poverty areas and initiating universal preschool. Edwards detailed the proposals, which also include longer school years and overhauling the No Child Left Behind education law, in a speech at Brody Middle School in Des Moines.
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A panel has found that an additional $5.6 billion must be spent on schoolchildren every year to provide a basic education.
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A new report says disabled children are not getting the care they need because too much money is spent on administration
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Education and business leaders urged an overhaul of the U.S. school system, including ending high school at the 10th grade for many students. Current teaching is failing to prepare young Americans for the global economy, members of a bipartisan panel said Thursday.
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Schools may need more money and regulators may need more authority to help America's children from spiraling into obesity, experts and politicians told Congress on Tuesday.
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President Bushâs call for a $400 million program to use tax dollars to help parents send their children to private or religious schools was quickly denounced by some top Democrats.
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New York City said it would pay 40,000 teachers an extra $160 million to end a 37-year fight over whether the city failed to pay the correct amount of interest on their pension contributions, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Wednesday.