The Programme for Government target for pre-school education is for all three-year-olds to be involved by April 2002.
She wants to guarantee access to pre-school education, and create new child-care schemes.
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The Education Secretary, David Blunkett, says the government is now back on track to achieve its promises for pre-school education.
It revolves around a small centre where new mothers bring their children for pre-school education and information about nutrition and health.
The assembly had previously discussed nursery and pre-school education in June 2011.
He urged more spending on pre-school education, high schools and training.
He spearheaded measures to support foster families and develop pre-school education.
The minister said he was encouraged by the inclusion of the commitment to provide one year of pre-school education for every family in the programme for government.
During his tenure voters have approved tax increases for an expansion of the light-rail transport system (2004), a new justice centre (2005), and a voucher programme for pre-school education (2006).
Owing to the fact that participation in pre-school education is voluntary, ministers say they are now aiming to make sure 85% of youngsters in this age group take part in nursery education.
While high-quality, part-time pre-school education (for three- and four-year-olds) seems to help children cope with school, dumping babies in nurseries all day long before they are one is also pretty clearly bad for them.
Many Latin countries are also championing pre-school education.
The UUP's Basil McCrea highlighted the research suggesting the educational and social benefits of pre-school education, and asked the minister to increase funding to account for 98% of potential demand instead of the current 90%.
Anganwadi centres also provide daily pre-school child care and education, as well as keeping a dozen-odd registers recording everything from children's weights to financial accounts.
Dunmore Pre-School in Abingdon was suspended by education watchdog Ofsted following an inspection last week.
CTCs are public housing facilities, libraries and community centers nationwide designed to provide myriad services, including work force development and employment information, pre-school and family programs and adult education, all of which use computers and information technology to meet people's needs.
We need low-cost higher education and even lower-cost child care and pre-school.
Study after study has demonstrated that if you are going to put your money somewhere in the education system, pre-school is the best place.
Unison said it would ballot its members in the pre-school, nursery, primary and secondary education sectors on industrial action in response to the cuts.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have said the resulting funding loss would mean the elimination of 700 guidance counselor and teacher positions, bigger class sizes and cuts in pre-kindergarten special education, after-school and anti-bullying programs, according to court documents.
The recovery has brought a cautious welcome from the Pre-School Learning Alliance - particularly now that the education secretary is becoming directly involved.
Mexico has one of the highest rates of pre-primary school enrolment among OECD countries, but only under half of students complete secondary education, according to an OECD report in 2012.
In 2011, according to the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), 39 states had state-funded pre-school initiatives (not including Head Start, the federal programme for poor children).
Most of them in a context of an expanded vision of basic education for all that should go from one year of pre-primary across to the lower secondary school cycle.
Despite these impressive gains in primary and secondary education, most Bahraini children, particularly those from poor families, still have limited access to comprehensive and quality early childhood education (ECE) due to: poverty and limited State investment in or support of ECE programmes (in fact, comprehensive early education programmes are non-existent in the country) and the fact that child participation in pre-school classes is largely seen as a luxury.
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