SEEd - The Support Early Education Initiative

The Support Early Education (SEEd) Campaign is an initiative of the Latino Policy Forum and the Early Childhood Education Acuerdo, a coalition of community-based organizations that focuses on giving Chicago parents the option to choose the best educational setting for their children. 

Working families should be able to choose to send their 4-year-olds to community-based organizations and not suffer the loss of full-day, full-year, high quality birth-to-five schooling and expanded family services. 

ECE News

Why Rahm Emanuel’s rollout of universal pre-K has Chicago preschool providers worried

El Valor runs the second-largest network of early childhood education centers in Chicago, after the public school system itself. Until this fall, several of its centers on the city’s South and Southwest sides had long waitlists.

 Big day for preschool: Illinois governor says state universal pre-K coming in 4   years; Chicago invests $77 million in early learning

 Despite a “significant” state structural budget deficit, Illinois and Chicago will   continue investing in early childhood education, leaders made clear on Friday. In  line with his vision of expanding early education, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said.