SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--First 5 California leadership will join U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan as he tours a San Francisco quality preschool site, which has successfully demonstrated the use and blending of local, state and federal funding.
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WHAT: |
Visit by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to Cross Cultural Family Center to view California program that models universal preschool | ||||
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013 @ 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. |
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WHERE: |
Cross Cultural Family Center – Tenderloin Center | ||||
| 259 Turk Street, San Francisco, 94102 | |||||
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WHO: |
Executive Director Camille Maben and Diane Levin, Deputy Director of Programs, along with members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and San Francisco Board of Education and other education leaders | ||||
Executive Director Camille Maben and Deputy Director Diane Levin will join Secretary Duncan during his tour of a California preschool that provides quality care and education services to young children and receives funding from First 5 California as part of the California Child Signature Program.
The Cross Cultural Family Center is a San Francisco Universal Preschool site, First 5 California Child Signature Program Maintenance of Effort site and a San Francisco Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant site.
The schedule will include a classroom visit, roundtable discussion and press availability.
About First 5 California
First 5 California, also known as the California Children and Families Commission, was established after voters passed Proposition 10 in November 1998, adding a 50-cent tax on tobacco products to fund education, health, childcare and other programs for children ages 0-5 and their families. We are the only state affiliated Commission working to improve the quality of California’s preschool programs. We fund programs that educate parents, grandparents, caregivers and teachers about the critical role they play during a child's first five years. Since our creation, we've supported millions of families with programs and services designed to help more California kids grow up healthy and ready to succeed in school – and in life. For more information, please visit www.first5california.com/parents.