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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 280 Offered January 18, 1995 Expressing support for maintaining and increasing 1994 appropriations for programs for at-risk four-year-old children. ----------
Patrons--Walker, Howell, Nolen and Woods; Delegates: Behm, Connally, Crouch, Diamonstein, Orrock, Puller and Van Yahres
---------- Referred to the Committee on Rules ----------

WHEREAS, the mission of the Commission on Early Childhood and Child Day Care Programs is to study and provide recommendations addressing the need for quality developmental early childhood and child day care programs and services throughout the Commonwealth; and

WHEREAS, among the many issues of concern to the Commission on Early Childhood and Child Day Care Programs is the provision of quality preschool programs for at-risk four-year-old children; and

WHEREAS, the 1994 General Assembly recognized the importance of providing quality preschool programs for at-risk four-year-old children unserved by another program and appropriated $10.3 million to expand the availability of comprehensive preschool programs to 30 percent of Virginia's at-risk four-year-old children who are not currently served in a federal program; and

WHEREAS, in Virginia, 52 percent of at-risk four-year-old children are not served by a major federal program and an estimated 11,145 of the 21,222 at-risk four-year-old children in Virginia are otherwise unserved; and

WHEREAS, research and national reports consistently cite quality preschool education as important intervention to reverse the trend of academic failure of at-risk children; and

WHEREAS, studies show that children who receive early childhood education and intervention, are less likely to become violent adolescents and adults; and

WHEREAS, investing in quality preschool programs represents a successful prevention strategy in serving this population of children; and

WHEREAS, the development of policies and services to ensure the availability of quality, affordable and accessible early childhood and child day care programs benefits all citizens of the Commonwealth; now, therefore be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, that the General Assembly’s 1994 appropriation for at-risk four-year-old children be maintained and increased so that more children of the Commonwealth will be served.