by COFI Admin | Feb 1, 2013 | Early Learning Campaign, Health, Food, and Recess, POWER-PAC IL
In light of President Obama’s call last night for increased investment in preschool, we are excited that our early learning work is making an impact in Chicago and Illinois. The Governor’s Office of Early Childhood Development applauded the work of parent...
by COFI Admin | Aug 1, 2012 | Early Learning Campaign
Parent activists from POWER-PAC, Parents Organized to Win, Educate and Renew – Policy Action Council are excited to release their report “How We Got Johnny, Jada. and José Into, Preschool“ today, August 3, 2012. The report includes policy briefs that share...
by COFI Admin | May 1, 2012 | Early Learning Campaign, POWER-PAC IL
In the months of May and June, COFI and POWER-PAC trained over 90 staff and parent leaders of early learning programs in the basics of COFI’s parent leadership and parent engagement model. Staff and parent leaders came from 11 different sites from two state-funded...
by COFI Admin | Sep 1, 2011 | Early Learning Campaign, Elementary Justice
On September 7, 2011, new CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Jean-Claude Brizard came to COFI for a special meeting with POWER-PAC leaders. Parent leaders from 8 different Chicago communities shared their concerns and recommendations around improving school...
by COFI Admin | Apr 1, 2010 | Early Learning Campaign
POWER-PAC’s Early Learning Campaign is about low income children of color having access to good preschool programs. Parents conducted thousands of interviews with families and, as reported in Why Isn’t Johnny in Preschool, we learned that transportation...
by COFI Admin | Mar 1, 2010 | Early Learning Campaign, POWER-PAC IL
COFI was the 2010 national recipient of the Leo P. Chall Award for outstanding work to promote the enrollment of low-income children in quality early education programs. This award, funded out of an endowment at the Sociological Initiatives Foundation in Boston,...
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