Welcome
Welcome to the new website of The Texas Early Childhood English Learner Initiative!
Texans Care for Children launched the Initiative in 2020 in collaboration with Philanthropy Advocates, IDRA, and a number of other partners and stakeholders.
The Policy Roadmap
Our report provides recommendations to the Texas Legislature, state agencies, school districts, charter schools, and child care centers to improve educational outcomes for early childhood English Learners.
The recommendations focus on four key areas for pre-k, other early grades, and child care: improving the quality of early learning programs, strengthening the workforce, collecting better data, and retooling school finance.
“Multiple languages are not to be feared, they're an asset in your classroom. And if you're lucky enough to have multilingual children in your classroom, embrace it and make it to the benefit of everybody.”
— Sarah Baray, PreK4SA
About the Initiative
The Initiative is led by a Steering Committee consisting of Texans Care for Children, Philanthropy Advocates, Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA), Texas Association for the Education of Young Children (TAEYC), and Dr. Dina Castro of University of North Texas at Denton.
From January through October 2020, the Initiative developed its recommendations through a statewide survey of 185 experts in bilingual and early childhood education, three virtual workgroup convenings with community leaders from around the state, and numerous conversations with education program leaders and stakeholders.
The Initiative’s research was produced with the generous support of Philanthropy Advocates, a collaboration with Educate Texas.
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