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Rep. Kagi discusses early learning on KUOW’s The Conversation

Rep. Kagi and children play chutes and ladders game
Rep. Kagi plays a life-size “chutes and ladders”-style game with children to highlight the importance of early learning, 2012.

What’s up with early learning funding here in Washington, and how do we measure up against other states?  Why should the state invest in early learning programs?  Rep. Kagi talks with KUOW’s Ross Reynolds on The Conversation, and mentions her proposal to create a birth-to-five early learning continuum funded by money from Initiative 502.  That proposal has a public hearing today at 1:30 p.m. in the House Early Learning and Human Services committee.

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