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Articles in July, 2004 issue of Report on Preschool Programs

• Spending bill provides only small head start increase.(Slants And Trends)
• New project sharpens focus on family literacy services.(Reading Powers the Mind program )(Brief Article)
• New appointment.(Jane Knitzer, National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia University)(Brief Article)
• Early Learning Activities, Project Spectrum.(Resources)(Brief Article)
• Buoyed by the success of programs in their home state, Oregon's two senators are proposing a new national mentoring program for children ages 5 to 7 who are at risk of abuse or neglect.(Gordon Smith, Ron Wyden )(Brief Article)
• Rearview Mirror: Reflections on a Preschool Car Project.(Resources)(Video Recording Review)
• Food and Nutrition Service.(Federal Register)(Brief Article)
• A new Head Start initiative will help an additional 4,000 children receive services through the early childhood program this year, the Bush administration says.(George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
• Two dozen food banks across the country offer special food programs for at-risk children, recognizing that hunger does not stop on weekends.(Brief Article)
• Congress has approved another short-term extension of the 1996 welfare reform law.(Welfare Reform Reconciliation Act of 1996)(Brief Article)
• The Department of Health and Human Services is conducting a public service advertising campaign to promote the adoption of children from foster care.(Brief Article)
• Senate, House panel approve Boys & Girls Club assistance.(Brief Article)
• Feds offering new head start funds for training, technical assistance.(Brief Article)
• Adults comprise nearly 75 percent of those paid at the minimum wage, and many have to support young children, say proponents of an increase in the nation's base wage.(Brief Article)
• Child care workers reap few salary gains: center.(Brief Article)
• Telehealth program improves health care, reduces costs.
• The Head Start Bureau is seeking a new grantee for a program in Summers County, West Virginia.(Brief Article)
• Teaching Strategies Inc.
• Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the expected Democratic party nominee for president, has a new child care program designed to increase access.(Brief Article)
• Bush signs bill with renewals of CACFP, child nutrition.(George W. Bush Child and Adult Care Food Program)
• Maryland study finds gains.(Brief Article)
• Adult-Child Interactions: Forming Partnerships with Children.(Resources)(Brief Article)
• Head Start Bureau.(Federal Register)(Brief Article)
• It's rare when early childhood advocates applaud a governor for vetoing landmark early childhood legislation.(Jeb Bush)(Brief Article)
• New early childhood plan targets summer prior to kindergarten.
• Grants to disabled.(Education Department )(Brief Article)
• Two individuals have pleaded guilty to theft charges stemming from a Head Start fraud case.(Around The Nation)(Brief Article)
• The Head Start Bureau is seeking a new grantee for a program in Plainfield, N.J.(New Jersey)(Brief Article)
• President Bush has signed into law a renewal of federal child nutrition programs, P.L. 108-265.(Brief Article)
• Skeptical staff.(assessment of Head Start programs for 4 year-olds)(Brief Article)
• Early assessments show children make head start gains at age 4.(Conference Report)
• Pennsylvania child care law too limited, governor says.(Brief Article)
• Infant special education slated for 2005 increase.(Brief Article)
• Foundation seeks applicants for day care teaching award.(Tylenol and Terri Lynne Lokoff Child Care Foundation National Child Care Awards)(Brief Article)
• Facility design, size may increase interaction, child care quality.
• Arkansas has received permission from the federal government to begin serving low-income pregnant women and their unborn children under the State Child Health Insurance Program.(Brief Article)
• Advocates map new plan to improve Florida pre-k.(pre-kindergarten system)
• Caring and Learning.(Resources)(Brief Article)
• If it wasn't already clear, a new study confirms the fact: child care is among the lowest-paid professions in the United States.(Brief Article)
• ED seeks research center on preschool education.(Education Department )(Brief Article)
• Clinton, Snowe seek approval of new kinship care proposal.(Olympia Snowe, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Kinship Caregiver Support Act )
• FNS.(Food and Nutrition Service)(Brief Article)
• Strange days indeed.(Slants And Trends)(Brief Article)
• Advocates still doubt whether Congress will approve a fiscal 2005 human service spending bill on time this year.(Brief Article)
• House gives families flexibility in spending day care accounts.(Brief Article)
• Children with computer access improve school readiness.(Brief Article)
• Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children.(Federal Register)(Brief Article)
• Summer program's limited reach hurts many eligible youngsters.(Food Research and Action Center report of the school launch program)(Brief Article)
• Many child welfare systems face "real-time" communications problems, an issue brought before Congress at a hearing that examined the deaths of twin infant girls in Baltimore.(Around The Nation)(Brief Article)
• The Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families is providing $1.7 million for five Indian tribes to train adults as mentors for children with incarcerated parents.(Brief Article)