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South Lane outlines birth-to-5 early-learning network and seeks sustained funding for literacy work
Summary
District staff and the Children's Institute described a coordinated early-learning system that serves families from birth through preschool, cites expanded Medicaid billing and multiple grants supporting services, and promised cleaner participation data next June.
Heather Murphy, the district's early learning and family resources administrator, told the board the district runs a multi-part early-learning operation that reaches families from prenatal supports through preschool and into the K-12 transition. She detailed services including an on-site Family Resource Center, community care specialists in each school building, a language support team and the Little Lions Early Childhood Center, and said those teams total roughly 17 FTE across the department.
At the board meeting, Murphy said the district's services are funded with a mix of public and private grants, contracts…
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