This week’s highlights:
Top News – For the second year in a row, leaders in Kansas are pushing a plan to consolidate early childhood programs and services currently spread across multiple state departments.
Missouri Update – Kids Win Missouri, with the support of Aligned, proposes the Missouri Community Childcare Exchange, a similar public-private partnership.
Kansas Update – Kansas budget challenges and what they mean for K-12 education
Additional Highlights – Last week in Washington, D.C., the head of the nation’s leading human resources association told a congressional committee that the “education-to-employment pipeline is leaky, broken, and busted.”