In the News
Oct 22, 2012
Join us TONIGHT at 7 for the Hawaii News Now final debate between U.S. Senate candidates former Gov. Linda Lingle and Congresswoman Mazie Hirono.
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Aug 26, 2012
KHVH News Radio 830
There is growing support among parents and teachers for a state assisted preschool program. Here to talk about it with Rick Hamada is Good Beginnings Alliance, a group that has just put out the results of a questionnaire showing how many people agree with state funded preschooling. Also discussed is how such a program would help our keiki, and what it would entail to put it in practice.
Aug 24, 2012
So what is a fair tax increase to keep 4-year-olds in preschool? Good Beginnings Alliance Policy and Community Partnerships Director Jacce Mikulanec discusses the question at 37:10.
Aug 24, 2012
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Seventy-seven percent of Hawaii residents say a state-funded preschool program should be partly subsidized or free for all children, according to survey results released Thursday by Good Beginnings Alliance.
Aug 24, 2012
KHON News
There's a renewed call for the state to provide money for preschool education. Advocates say a new poll shows there's overwhelming support to have the state fund at least part of the program.
Aug 24, 2012
Honolulu Civil Beat
A new poll shows that the majority of the Hawaii public supports a state-funded preschool program — and lawmakers are hoping to make it happen as soon as 2014.
Aug 23, 2012
Be My Voice! Hawai'i news conference to reveal polling results in support of state-funded preschool.
Aug 22, 2012
GBA Executive Director Deborah Zysman talks about the end of Junior Kindergarten, the beginning of preschool for all 4-year-olds and what the public really thinks about the issue on Perry & Price.
Aug 6, 2012
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
When kids eat a nutritious breakfast, they're more likely to do well in school. But many kids skip a morning meal. And only about 20 percent of Hawaii's children from low-income households eat breakfasts offered free or at a reduced cost to them at schools.
Jul 27, 2012
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
A 2012 Kids Count report also ranks the economic health of isle children at 31st
Jul 13, 2012
Associated Press
The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is awarding nearly $1 million to KCCA Preschools of Hawaii to establish a center that will train educators of young children.
Jul 6, 2012
Honolulu Star Advertiser
Hawaii’s public school system will drop the junior kindergarten grade at the end of the 2013-14 school year and make way for a publicly funded preschool network, following last month’s new law signed by Gov. Neil Abercrombie.
Jul 3, 2012
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed legislation Thursday that ends junior kindergarten in 2014, and establishes a state Office of Early Learning to begin phasing in a publicly funded preschool network.
Feb 5, 2012
Star Advertiser
The elimination of junior kindergarten in 2013 would be delayed by a year to give officials more time to develop a statewide preschool program, under a plan supported by legislators.
Nov 16, 2011
The Garden Island
Terry Lock, Early Childhood Coordinator and member of the Be My Voice! Hawai‘i Leadership Council, discusses strategies to implement a statewide early learning and development system.
Nov 1, 2011
Hawaii Business
Good Beginnings Alliance, the organization facilitating the Be My Voice! Hawai‘i Campaign, was named a top small non-profit by Hawai‘i Business.
Oct 26, 2011
Star-Advertiser
Liz Chun of Be My Voice! Hawai‘i discusses how poverty affects a child’s opportunity for success in the Star Advertiser.
Sep 30, 2011
The Garden Island
Dental caries, which are easily prevented, can deeply impact a child’s opportunity to succeed in school.
