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Buncombe County Funds $3.6M for Early Childhood Education & Development

6/19/2019

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After months of planning, applications, and deliberation, Buncombe County’s Early Childhood Education and Development Committee finalized allocated funding for $3.6 million dollars to schools and local organizations to make positive, lifelong impacts on our children. In October 2018, the Board of Commissioners voted to establish the fund and a committee for funding recommendations. Early childhood education is one of the Board of Commissioners’ six strategic priorities, and the following goals identified for funding:
  • System approach – collaborating with community leaders and stakeholders
  • Availability – increasing access to high-quality early childhood care and education
  • Affordability – making it affordable for all families
  • Workforce – supporting a robust career track in the field of early childhood education
  • Family Support – creating a system that responds to needs of families dealing with trauma, poverty, and addiction
“There is a crisis of need for new classrooms and new child care slots, and there is a conjoined crisis of not enough qualified teachers with the pay and benefits for their retention. There are achievement gaps associated with a lack of quality early childhood education. It is our honor and responsibility [as the committee] to provide funding to reach our goal helping every child within the county succeed during their first 2,000 days,”  says District 1 Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara.
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