Carrs/Safeway encourages employees to read with their kids Carrs/Safeway is encouraging Alaska parents to read with their children by distributing “ABC Read and Talk With Me Anchorage” book bags to its employees. The book bags, a project spearheaded by Anchorage’s First Lady Deborah Bonito with funding from BP, were designed to help parents and care Read More
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Statewide Education Summit
Alaska educators convened to attend “Building Alaska’s Future One Student at a Time,” held in Anchorage, Alaska, Nov. 13-14, 2008. The purpose of the summit was to draft a vision, mission, goals, and outcomes for education in Alaska prekindergarten through secondary education, as well as to broadly define what every Alaska high school graduate should Read More
Employers and Child Care: Credit Union 1
For many working parents the struggle to balance family and a career is complicated. Parents struggle to find high-quality, affordable child care, which keeps some parents who would like to work or continue to work, from doing so. Other challenges working parents face are work environments that do not have policies that support working parents Read More
A Sure-fire Investment
The economic turmoil of the day is scary for most of us at the personal and policy levels. Despite the downturn, there is one investment that holds its value. Economists are touting it as one of the best bets available for economic development, and it is far more than just a family matter. Even in Read More
Fall and New Beginnings
I still think of September as the beginning of the year, despite the fact that my children are grown up and I no longer participate in all the rituals around getting ready for the first day of school. It feels a bit like one of those first days of school though, here at Best Beginnings, Read More
Early learning – it’s everybody’s business
A movement is underway. While many Alaskans are not yet aware of it, they soon will be, as the movement bubbles to the surface in communities across the state. Books for babies? You bet. Businesses care whether children start school prepared to succeed? Some do and more are joining their ranks. Right from birth, babies Read More
