That is a good plan. I suppose you have enough money set aside for a \”rainy day\” such as this, but I worry about very small programs that survive week to week.

It is indeed a sad day – while Mayor Emanuel and the White House are advocating early childhood education – the State who has had problems with the budget for decades – lets the most important initiatives wither away and now die

As you know , I have spent my entire career in teaching illustrating the correlations between poor education for young children and the overrepresentation of that population in prisons and jails ten to fifteen years later years –

We must raise our voices this election and after – use our power as a collective to mandate funding – that is how ALL change we have seen over the decades has occurred – we just have to find yet another way to lobby for those who have always been marginalized by governments that just do not understand/care about education for our most vulnerable citizens – young children – the givers of their care- As you know when teachers and parents come together on one accord change DOES come ( most of the time late) but it does happen

We must reconfigure our efforts and NEVER give up——– although we are tired of the fight in our quest to make legislators \”find\” resources for our children their families and the people who make the least caring for the most important \”commodity\” our children