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After exploring Children's Defense Fund website and their topic of early childhood, it lead me to the National Women's Law Center which primarily deals with inequalities for children, families, women and LBGTQ communities, among other issues of equity.  Delving deeper into the heading of Child Care and Early Learning, the site breaks down the topic into five subtopics: CCBDG Implementation, Child Care, Head Start, Parents, Children & Low-Wage Jobs, and Prekindergarten.  Throughout each of these subtopics, there was much information pertaining to equity and excellence in early childhood education and suggestion of what needs to occur to breakdown the barriers of awareness, accessibility, and responsiveness. 

The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), reauthorized by a law in November of 2014, provides an opportunity for states to better meet the needs of parents in low-wage jobs with nonstandard or irregular work schedules (National Women's Law Center, n.d.). The article also states that states should take full advantage of the opportunity offered by the law, as well as increased CCDBG funding, to expand access to child care assistance and child care options for parents in low-wage jobs and their families. In addition, there is a fact sheet which describes ways in which states can alter their policies towards working parents schedules and their children.

In addition, there is another page that is dedicated to equity in education for all students, specifically for girls of color who are more likely to face unfair discipline and implicit biases in school.  The National Women's Law Center works together with students, parents, and educators to bring to light the barriers that are occurring, to propose gender-responsive policies, and to take action at both the state and federal level to ensure all students have equal educational opportunities.

National Women's Law Center. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://nwlc.org/

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  1. haleemaDecember 16, 2018 at 11:35 AM

    Thank you for sharing this resource. I appreciate how you decided to focus on minority groups.

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