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Letters

Read letters we have delivered to policymakers with important pre-k decisions pending before them. More recent letters are listed at the top.

• January 14, 2008 - Letters to the chairmen and ranking members of the House Education and Labor and Senate HELP committees urging them to move one of several pre-k incentive grant bills in 2008.
  Letter to Chairman Kennedy and Ranking Member Enzi
  Letter to Chairman Miller and Ranking Member McKeon
• January 9, 2008 - Pre-K Now recommendations to the Senate HELP Committee for the reauthorization of a major teacher recruitment and retention program in the No Child Left Behind Act.
  Letter to Chairman Kennedy and Ranking Member Enzi
• November 14, 2007 - Letter to members of the House Education and Labor Committee applauding their success in including benefits for pre-k teachers in the Higher Education Act.
  Letter to House Education and Labor Committee members
• September 13, 2007 - Letter to Representative Mazie Hirono (D-HI) in support of the PRE-K Act (H.R. 3289), which would create a federal pre-k incentive grant to help states build the quality of their pre-k programs.
  Letter to Representative Hirono
• August 1, 2007 - Letter to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) commending the introduction of her bill, the Ready to Learn Act (S. 1823), to provide federal grants to states to support high-quality, voluntary pre-k programs
  Letter to Senator Clinton
• June 29, 2007 - Statement of support for the College Cost Reduction Act of 2007 and recommendations to the House Education and Labor Committee for including pre-k training programs in the Higher Education Act
  Letter to House Education and Labor Committee members
• June 28, 2007 - Recommendations to House and Senate conferees for the reauthorization of Head Start and a point-by-point explanation of our proposals
  Letter to Head Start conferees
  Recommendations to Head Start conferees
• June 20, 2007 - Recommendations to the members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to increase federal support for pre-kindergarten through the No Child Left Behind Act
  Letter to Senate HELP Committee members
• June 18, 2007 - Letter to Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) requesting aid for pre-k programs and teachers in the Higher Education Act
  Letter to Senator Kennedy
• June 8, 2007 Letter to Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) commenting on the Early Childhood Investment Act of 2007 (S. 1573)
  Letter to Senator Dodd
• June 5, 2007 - Letter to House Appropriations Chairman Dave Obey (WI-7) urging FY08 funding increases for Head Start, the Child Care and Development Block Grant, and No Child Left Behind programs
  Letter to Representative Obey
• June 4, 2007 - Letter to Representative Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) in support of the Loan Forgiveness for Head Start Teachers Act of 2007 (H.R. 1779) to provide student loan relief to Head Start teachers and calling for state-level pre-k teachers to be included as well
  Letter to Representative DeLauro
• June 4, 2007 - Letter to Representative José Serrano (NY-16), asking for federal support in recruiting assistant teachers for pre-k classrooms
  Letter to Representative Serrano
• May 23, 2007 - Letter to Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) commenting on the Early Childhood Education Professional Development and Career System Grants Act (S. 1431), which provides for professional development opportunities for early childhood educators
  Letter to Senators Brown and Voinovich
• May 17, 2007 - Letter to Senator Robert Casey (D-PA) regarding the Prepare All Kids Act of 2007
  Letter to Senator Casey
• April 16, 2007 - Letters to the U.S. Congress regarding Head Start reauthorization
  Letter to U.S. Senators
  Letter to U.S. Representatives