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FY2013 Budget: Impact of Current Decisions on Youth –- What's at Play
Our latest Budget Basics report – The Fiscal Year 2013 State Budget: The Impact of Current Decisions on Youth – Which Decisions Have Been Made, and Which Remain In Play – highlights youth provisions in the final budget bills that were approved by the House and Senate the last week of April. As anticipated, the House rolled up all of its budget bills into two omnibus bills – one for Education (HB 5372) including School Aid, Community Colleges, and Higher Education; and the department budgets into another omnibus budget bill (HB 5365). The Senate kept each budget bill separately. The final House and Senate budget bills are highlighted in our latest Budget Basics report including differences that will be negotiated in conference committees.
House and Senate Pass All Budget Bills
News Releases
Documents
Children's Advocate Available at State of State 1.18.2012
| Date added: | 01/18/2012 |
| Date modified: | 01/18/2012 |
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| Downloads: | 176 |
Children’s Advocates To Be Honored Nov. 29
| Date added: | 11/14/2011 |
| Date modified: | 11/14/2011 |
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| Downloads: | 258 |
Census To Shine Light On Rising Child Poverty
| Date added: | 09/20/2011 |
| Date modified: | 09/20/2011 |
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| Downloads: | 439 |
Partnership Leads to Healthier Kids, Fewer Costly Hospital Visits
| Date added: | 08/15/2011 |
| Date modified: | 08/15/2011 |
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| Downloads: | 334 |
Testing Obama’s Poverty Breaker in Detroit
| Date added: | 05/16/2011 |
| Date modified: | 05/23/2011 |
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| Downloads: | 1060 |
School-Community Partnership models are the Obama administration’s bold bid to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty characterizing so many communities. Key to this effort is the U.S. Department of Education’s launch in April 2010 of the Promise Neighborhoods program as the first federal initiative to put education at the center of comprehensive efforts to fight poverty. Last year, the Department awarded $10 million to 21 applicants for efforts to support planning of cradle-tocareer services designed to improve educational outcomes for students in distressed neighborhoods.
Take Action!
The Senate budget bill includes a $10 million increase for Michigan's Great Start Readiness Program - take Action and contact your legislators and urge them to support the Senate-passed $10 million increase and to set-aside at least 20% of the new money to support young children from birth through age three and their families.
Funding for before- and after-school pilot programs is up for debate as a result of differences between the House and Senate bills - the House reinstated $5 million for the programs, but the Senate failed to include any funding. Take Action and ask your legislators to support the House funding for extended learning opportunities!
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Glad @voicesac is recognizing Rep Kildee's career priorities - strategies to improve equity and help all kids succeed: http://t.co/LVzJYtmR
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For National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day, read our blog on the importance of prevention beginning at birth! http://t.co/VFs66iqW
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RT @VoicesAC: Is Michigan at risk of failing its youngest? (from our member org @MichChildren) http://t.co/9aBPWQjW
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