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SFC
 
Accomplishments
 
SFC led successful efforts that:
Merged child care and early education bureaucracies to create the nation’s first consolidated Department of Early Education and Care in 2005;
Secured more than $173 million in increased public investments in early education and care since 2005;
Created the Massachusetts Universal
Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) grant program in the FY07 state budget;
Doubled the percentage of Massachusetts
kindergartners in full-day programs—from 38 percent in 2000 to 75 percent in 2009;
Created the Early Educators Scholarship
Program, which since FY06 has awarded more than 3,300 scholarships to early educators to pursue college degrees; and
Formally established UPK in state law in 2008 with unanimous legislative approval.
 
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