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The holiday season is here, and many families and caregivers across North Carolina are planning festive activities to engage kids while they are home from school this month. Reading is a great way to spend quality time together, making memories and building holiday traditions while also improving children’s literacy skills. One of the main indicators

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ALAMEDA, CA (May 18, 2022) – The First 5 Network, comprised of First 5 California, the First 5 Association of California, and the 58 local county First 5s across the state, applauds Governor Newsom’s May Revision proposals centered on supporting a whole-child, whole-family framework to address the pressing needs of California’s yo

/PRNewswire/ -- The First 5 Network, comprised of First 5 California, the First 5 Association of California, and the 58 local county First 5s across the state,...

/PRNewswire/ -- The First 5 Network, comprised of First 5 California, the First 5 Association of California, and the 58 local county First 5s across the state,...

The 28th annual Livermore Valley Wine Auction in September will raise money for the Quest Science Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Tracy, the George Mark Children’s House, and

RALEIGH — The General Assembly on Thursday finalized a pair of public education measures designed to get more intensive help to children learning to read and to those who have fallen behind during the COVID-19 pandemic. Before going home for a spring recess, the GOP-controlled House and Senate approved both bills by overwhelming margins. They now go to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper. A statement from Cooper’s office didn’t directly address whether he’d sign the measures, which h...

Retooling of NC student literacy efforts on fast track March 31, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An overhaul of North Carolinas efforts to improve reading proficiency for early-grade students in the public schools is advancing quickly through the legislature, clearing the Senate on Wednesday by a unanimous vote. A House education committee later approved the same “Excellent Schools Act” in a rare evening meeting. It signaled the General Assemblys hope to give final legislat...

NC Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021 approved   PRESS RELEASE:: Raleigh, N.C. – The North Carolina State Senate today unanimously approved the “Excellent Public Schools Act of 2021.” The bill covers in-classroom instruction, reading camps, other reading interventions, data collection, and brings together the higher education and pre-K communities to help ensure consistency and quality in literacy instruction. Senate Leader Phil Berger (R-Rockingham) introduced the bill along with Sena...

Summer school, reading improvement bills pass NC legislature GARY D. ROBERTSON, Associated Press April 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper, center, and lawmakers gather Wednesday, March 10, 2021, for a news conference to announce that leaders of the Republican-led state legislature and the governor have reached an agreement to reopen the states K-12 public schools to full-time daily instruction in Raleigh. (Juli Leonard/The News & Observer via AP)Juli Leonard/AP RALEIG...