Educare Springfield to benefit children, families and community
Community leaders, local and national partners gathered on September 17 to celebrate the groundbreaking of Educare Springfield, the 24th Educare school nationwide. Educare Springfield will provide low-income children with high-quality early learning during their first five years to prepare them to succeed in life.
Educare also partners with state advocacy to pass legislation related to young children and families. It involves federal, state, and local policymakers so they can see the benefits of the program. Senator Angus King attended Educare Central Maine to see what it was really like. He is helping to reintroduce the Pace Act, a bipartisan legislation that would update the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit.
The Holyoke-Chicopee-Springfield Head Start program works with and operates the Educare here in Springfield. Head Start is a federally funded early education program that works with schools and children to get them the education they need. “One of the things that we’ve done already is that our faculty were fortunate enough to be able to deliver some professional development to some of the Head Start staff so we’ve already had these faculty present to all the staff of Head Start,” Davis-Delano explained. Through working with HCS Head Start, Educare will be developed into an effective and beneficial resource that will go towards helping families and children that need it.
