HFRP Associate Director Tapped to Testify at House Hearing (HGSE News Releases & Features, 4/1/04)
April 1, 2008
Priscilla Little, associate director of the Harvard Family Research Project at Harvard Graduate School of Education, was one of four witnesses invited to testify at the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education hearing, After School Programs: How the Bush Administration’s Budget Impacts Children and Families, for the U. S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor on March 11.
Excerpt from the article:
"The hearing, chaired by U.S. Representative Dale Kildee (D-MI), examined the potential effects of President Bush’s plan to slash $281 million — 26 percent — of funding for the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC), a federally supported afterschool program that provides services to more than 1.5 million children and their families.
"'Afterschool programs are a critical component of children’s education and development and, in part thanks to the 21st CCLC grants program, we have a good solid evidence base to support this claim,' Little testified."