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Like every parent, I have a lot to ponder: Where should my son attend preschool? When should we start toilet training? Should I let him eat toothpaste? His wardrobe, on the other hand, just sort of evolved into a jumble of hand-me-downs and Old Navy separates. I wasn't concerned with my toddler's togs--until my brother announced that he was getting married and he wanted Conor, 2 1/2, to be one of the ring bearers. Suddenly I had to shop for real...
...mother is vice principal of an elementary school. The 21-year-old sees no problem going from drumming with his rock band by night to wiping little noses and teaching kids their colors and shapes by day. That said, he knows he's unusual. When parents walk into his preschool in Oak Park, Ill., and see a young man in baggy clothes, some "freak out," he says. But when their children clamber onto his back and call him Mr. A., the moms and dads come around. ("Isn't he adorable?" whispers a mother to a visitor.) The job pays Echevarria...
...Average salary of a preschool teacher in New York City...
...result of lax environmental protection will ultimately have very adverse consequences on our economic growth. Or consider the highly unequal nature of opportunity for America’s children. Sure we have universal primary and secondary school, but when children don’t have access to preschool or medical coverage, that hurts their chances at success and undermines the nation’s future productivity. Tax cuts deprive the government of the resources it needs to invest in America’s economic future. Democrats should know this...
...sons and placed them in foster care. Finally, in 1999 Sangermano entered drug treatment and then the home of Joyce and George Parker. During her nine months with the Parkers, she got her driver's license, her GED and dentures. She also enrolled her youngest son in preschool and signed up for a welfare-to-work program. Today Sangermano lives with her son in a two-bedroom apartment, works part-time and is taking college classes. She hopes to bring the two older boys home from foster care soon. "This program helped save my life," she says. "And helped...