In 2007, the National Black Child Development Institute’s national policy agenda will focus on increasing school readiness and fight to expand federal health insurance coverage to the 9 million children shut out the health care system. NBCDI will advance these objectives with six comprehensive, multi-faceted strategies. 

I. Support creation of Federal Early Education Quality Improvement Grants

II. Expand quality pre-kindergarten programs to all three- and four-year-old children in the District of Columbia

III. Increase the Quality of Head Start programs

IV. Support expansion of Even Start

V. Support State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) Re-Authorization and Expansion

VI. Support increases in funding to initiatives within the No Child Left Behind Act that benefit children of color

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