May 16 Education Policy Briefing Around ESEA Reauthorization
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
By: Pat Simpson

Evidence-Based Home Visiting: The Impact of Parents as Teachers on the Education Continuum

Parents as Teachers will hold a briefing on Monday, May 16 at 2 pm in Room 203-02 of the Senate Visitors Center in Washington, D.C. focusing on the larger discussions surrounding the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

Learn about the national impact this evidence-based home visiting model has made on the lives of young children through promoting school readiness and parental engagement.

Hear about the increasing need for equitable investment in early childhood education from the perspectives of a national early childhood/parenting education organization, a state multi-service agency, a local school district superintendent, and a parent.

Speakers will include:
- SUSAN STEPLETON, President and CEO, Parents as Teachers
- CHERYLE DYLE-PALMER, Chief Operating Officer, Parents as Teachers
- JACK EDGERTON, Executive Director, Parent Trust for Washington Children
- DR. STANTON LAWRENCE, Superintendent of Schools, Normandy, Missouri Public School District
- A Maryland PARENT

Parents as Teachers is an internationally recognized network of organizations and professionals that supports thousands of families in all 50 states as well as many other countries through a proven parent education model featuring in-home visits with parents and children. www.ParentsAsTeachers.org

Register at http://bit.ly/g78WqU

Sponsored by Senators Roy Blunt and Patty Murray.