Last week I posted Thomas Friedman’s article about civic renewal in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. On Sunday Lancaster’s newspaper published an article about the county’s new P-3 initiative (which I’ve been supporting). Reporter Jeff Hawkes does a nice job using local examples to introduce P-3 improvement. See in particular:
- How Hawkes follows a family receiving home visiting services to discuss the importance of P-3.
- The important roles played by the United Way and the Community Action Partnership (CAP) as intermediary/backbone organizations.
- How Jill Koser, a former elementary school principal and the current head of education and child development at the CAP, is able to use her experience to help bridge early childhood and elementary school education.
- The connection between P-3 and 2 Generation programs as Anna Rodriguez participates in Parents as Teachers and a GED program.
You can find the article here.