Here are highlights of New Jersey’s FY2024 budget spending on children and families. On June 30th, Governor Murphy signed into law the largest budget in state history – $54.5 billion for FY2024, a 7% increase in state spending. The budget will cover all of the state’s planned spending from July 1, 2023 to June 30, […]
Author: Eloisa Hernandez-Ramos
Full-day school districts now eligible for PreK funds, but must ACT NOW!
CHILD CARE, HEAD START PROVIDERS, PARENTS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS: It’s time to ramp up your advocacy to bring preschool expansion to your community! The New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) has advised all New Jersey school districts providing full-day kindergarten that they will be eligible to apply for preschool expansion for the 2023-24 school year, regardless […]
Newark Kids Count 2023, A City Profile of Child Well-Being
Download Report News Release 2023_06_30_Newark_Kids_Count_A_City_Profile_of_well_being
Middlesex Kids Count Data Conversation June 26, 2023
Middlesex County Kids Count Data Conversation June 26, 2023 | 12:30PM Middlesex College – College Terrace Center Room (Park in Lot 3) RSVP by June 23 to Patricia Desiderio at pdesiderio@uwcj.org or 732.247.3727, ext. 223.
National 2023 KIDS COUNT Data Book Ranks NJ 7th on Child Well-Being
New Jersey ranks seventh in the nation in child well-being, according to the 2023 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, a 50-state report of recent household data developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzing how children and families are faring. However, our country’s lack of affordable and accessible child care shortchanges children and causes parents in […]
