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Dear Advocates: This week is Crossover at the General Assembly which means the House sends their Bills over to the Senate and the Senate sends their Bills over to the House.  It will be critically important that members of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance & Appropriation Committees hear from YOU!  Please ask for their […]

Dear Friends, There is a reading crisis.  Too many of our children are struggling when they enter kindergarten.  In fact, OVER 21,000 kindergarteners are at risk of reading failure.  The reading gaps are widening.  There are more children in K-2 at HIGH risk of reading failure. That is why we applaud the bipartisan effort of […]

Dear Advocates: As the 2022 General Assembly is underway, we wanted to remind you of the impact we have made together up to this point. TOGETHER, WE: Worked alongside Republicans and Democrats to change policy and impact children. Focused on data-driven problems and solutions. Secured BIG WINS for our kids. Increased Virginia’s investment in early […]

Dear Friends, As you know, E3 through the generosity of private investors funded and worked alongside UVA to develop the STREAMin3 curricula model for children ages one to five in our school.  Ultimately, we set out to create and develop a model that would impact thousands of children, parents, teachers and programs by giving them […]

Did you know that E3: Elevate Early Education funded the development of STREAMin3 in The New E3 School? The New E3 School is a prototype, statewide demonstration model of best practices in early education and a catalyst for policy change. When E3 worked with UVA to develop the curricula, our goal was to ensure that […]

Over half of Virginia’s kindergarteners are showing up to school NOT ready in literacy, math, social skills or self regulation.  Too many children are entering kindergarten without key readiness skills and continuing to struggle through third grade and beyond. When children have access to high quality early education, they enter kindergarten ready, regardless of their […]

The Build Back Better Act has been the subject of much debate.  Passed by the House earlier this month, the proposed legislation contains over 100 pages related to early education.  Aspects of this bill hold the potential to transform America’s early education landscape.  Our friends at The Hunt Institute prepared a six-page Q&A summary called, “Childcare and Prekindergarten […]

The election is in full swing!  In November, Virginians will elect a new governor.  100 House of Delegate seats are also up for grabs. Both candidates, Terry McAuliffe (along with First Lady Pamela Northam,  Congressman Scott and Delegate Graves) and Glenn Youngkin visited The New E3 School in August to talk about the education crisis. […]

Recently released data showed that an alarming 52% of Virginia’s kindergarteners ended the school year needing additional help in literacy, math, self-regulation and social skills. The pandemic has hit our children, families, teachers and school hard.  Too many of our children are starting school behind.  They will have a tough time catching up. Key Data Points […]

When you spend time on our nature playground, you quickly realize that it is truly an outdoor classroom.  There are science, technology, reading, engineering, art and math activities happening all around. Every child is discovering, exploring, talking, playing and having fun!  There is learning going on everywhere! The gardening station is filled with soil and […]

A March 2021 report by Lynn Olsen and Brooke Lepage of Georgetown University’s FutureEd documents the incoherent, misaligned web of early learning assessments that are costly, challenging to administer and proven to be misused or neglected altogether by policy makers.  Tough Test – The Nation’s Troubled Early Learning Assessment Landscape.

As the American Rescue Plan (ARP) hits educational agencies and the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), there is an opportunity in Virginia and in our country to rethink educational systems and help our students get back on track. More children from all socioeconomic backgrounds are behind as a result of the pandemic.  The most recent […]

  Dear Friends, We wanted make sure you saw the Good Morning America story about women dropping out of the workforce.  It features an economist talking about the dire need to address this demand and Virginia’s own Kim Hulcher with the Virginia Child Care Association (VCCA) speaking eloquently about the struggles of working parents, early educators and […]

We are excited for you to see this just released policy brief from Princeton & Brookings’ the Future of Children. The brief highlights strong partnerships between E3, UVA, The Virginia Department of Education and policymakers that led to the development and wide-scale implementation of the Virginia Kindergarten Readiness Program as a tool for teachers, parents, […]

Dear Friends, In 2005, the Hampton Roads Community Foundation, business, civic and philanthropic leaders created Smart Beginnings South Hampton Roads (SBSHR), one of three regional early education initiatives in the state (Fairfax, South Hampton Roads and Williamsburg).  SBSHR moved the meter from 1 in 5 kids not ready for kindergarten to 1 in 10 by […]