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On a sunny Friday, Michele Biller, director of Garcia Street Club, is hunched over a laptop in the preschool's hushed foyer. The occasional shriek of joy filters in from the playground, but Biller's brow is furrowed: She's trying to find a way to help parents understand how much more they'll have to pay since the school lost state funding. She's trying to find a way to help low-income families who relied on state subsidies for tuition here to keep their kids in preschool. As of July 1, a third of Biller's enure budget will be gone, and she's scrambling.
indeed: Last May, LFC analysts submitted a report to CYFD Cabinet Secretary Dorian Dodson. The report describes the state's Early Childhood Development Program as "duplicative" because it overlaps with public pre-Kindergarten (NM PreK) and federal and state Head Start programs. Toward me end of their report, the analysts recommend that CYFD "phase out... the state Early Childhood Development Program in FYIl." That's exacdy what CYFD is doing - if less as a phaseout than as a closeout. What's lacking is the second half of the LFC's recommendation: "Begin working with providers to transition children as appropriate to other funding sources in FY10."Now, [Bill Jordan] says, "It's tragic that, at a time when the economy's bad and families are in need, lawmakers are saying, 'We're going to cut back your services.'"See the full content of this document
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On a sunny Friday, Michele Biller, director of Garcia Street Club, is hunched over a laptop in the preschool's hushed foyer. The occasional shriek of joy filters in from the playground, but Biller's brow is furrowed: She's trying to find a way to help parents understand how much more they'll have to pay since the school lost state funding. She's trying to find a way to help low-income...
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