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Monitor Legislative Action on the Internet
Listening to or watching committee meetings is a great way to get familiar with the Legislative process, especially if you’ve always wanted to testify but thought it was too complicated.

United Ways of Texas Capital Blog
Another way to stay informed! Maintained by Jason Sabo, it’s always insightful and often entertaining! Follow link to read or subscribe: http://www.uwtexas.org/display.php?tid=92

Child Protective Services Reform and Renewal
Partners in CPS Reform

Texans Care convened the Partners in CPS Reform group to provide a forum for representatives of the Department of Family and Protective Services and community stakeholders to share information and concerns regarding the implementation of S.B. 6, with the goal of achieving the smoothest transition for vulnerable children and families as possible. It is imperative to have both the agency and community perspectives to ensure that true reform occurs, and to avoid the pitfalls that other states have encountered. By working together, we hope to build a stronger safety net for vulnerable children in Texas.

Texas Early Care and Education Coalition
Proposal for Interim Charges

At the end of the Regular 79th Legislative Session, TECEC did a call for feedback about what ideas you had regarding potential interim “charges” or topics to be studied by the Texas Legislature in preparation for the 80th Legislative Session. We received dozens of feedback forms relating to the early care and education needs of your community. Thank you to each of you who informed this process.

Based on all of the individual feedback we received, we compiled the information into five major categories, including the Texas Early Education Model (TEEM), Infants & Toddlers, High Standards, Professional Development, and Financing . Then, under each major category we listed a potential “charge” to be studied by the Texas Legislature.

Texas Health Care: What Has Happened and What Work Remains
User-friendly guide to understanding what happened to health care in the 2005 legislative session and where things stand leading into the next session? CPPP, in partnership with Methodist Healthcare Ministries, is pleased to release this new report, June 19, 2006.
24 page .pdf file at http://www.cppp.org/files/3/HlthCare_FINAL.pdf

Texas Healthcare Primer
Produced by the Center for Public Policy Priorities (CPPP) in partnership with Methodist Health Care Ministries, this introductory guide explains who gets health care in Texas, who doesn’t, and why that matters. Paying for health care has become particularly difficult after the 78th Legislature’s cuts to the state’s contribution to health care. This primer is meant to fuel a re-examination of our state policies.

Research on state CHIP programs, impact and composition
Child Health Insurance Research Initiative (CHIRI)
An effort to supply policymakers with information to help them improve access to, and the quality of, health care for low-income children.

 


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City Budget process is in the last stretch!

City Council District Budget Hearings will conclude on August 28.  Follow link for SCHEDULE

The Voices Early Care & Education Task Force has been meeting with Council Members and their staff to urge a $1.5 million dollar investment in the professional development of our childcare teachers.

If you agree with the research, that well-trained teachers are the essential ingredient in a quality pre-school experience for kids, then please lend your voice to our effort!

If you can not make your district hearing, drop your council member a brief note or phone call.  Their email and number is also on the schedule!


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