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They document the processes that translate ideas into concrete policies and practices, with attention to the political forces and critical relationships of trust that are required for genuine implementation.  \nFCD’s case study series seeks to document efforts ofa larger movement in states, school districts, schools, and in education and advocacy organizations across the United States to create a well-aligned and high-quality primary education for all our nation’s children. We believe that site-specific learning should be broadly shared to deepen the implementation of PreK-3rd approaches in the United States.  \n295 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor New York, NY 10017  \n(212) 867-5777 phone  \n(212) 867-5844 fax [www.fcd-us.org](www.fcd-us.org)  \nThis case study was funded by The McKnight Foundation.  \nInto the Fray: How a Funders Coalition Restored Momentum for Early Learning in Minnesota 1  \nIntroduction  \nIn the fall of 2008, a coalition of Minnesota foundations commissioned a local research organization to assess the state’s ability to undertake a major improvement in school readiness and early learning services for disadvantaged children.  \nThe findings were discouraging.  \nRichard Chase, working atthe research arm of St. Paul’s Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, concluded that Minnesota lacked a political champion for early learning in the governor’s office or any other executive agency. He observed that government authority over early childhood services was fragmented among three cabinet departments—Human Services, Health, and Education—leaving no agency with overall authority or vision. And, he said, advocates in the nonprofit sphere, while passionate and knowledgeable, lacked a common set of priorities and a cohesive strategy to advance institutional and political change.  \n“Stakeholders have expressed several early childhood goals—more money for programs, more quality in programs, more access to high-quality experiences, and more school readiness to close the achievement gap,’’ Chase wrote.“The goals are interrelated, but emphasize different strategies and lead to some confusion by legislators and other decision-makers about purpose and focus.”  \n“To make early childhood a priority,’’ he added,“stakeholders must be assertive to compete with other interest groups at the legislature and in local communities in order to get a bigger piece of the pie.’’  \nAnd yet just three years later, Minnesota would win three highly competitive federal grants to fund important pilot projects in early education. The three grants, totaling nearly $90 million over five years, would fund an ambitious cycle of early learning experiments, bringing high-quality education and family services to thousands of PreKindergarten children, while modeling rigorous evaluation and funding mechanisms for wider use (See Box) .  \nWhile $90 million is only a fraction of the sum that would be necessary to extend high-quality education and care to all of Minnesota’s low-income PreKindergarteners, it was enough to launch three ambitious, sustained experiments with national implications.  \nThe largest of the three federal grants—a four-year,$45 million Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge grant—would allow the state to offer childcare scholarships to hundreds of low-income families, develop a statewide quality rating system for PreKindergarten providers, increase training and education for the childcare workforce, and build a comprehensive system to assess the school readiness of the state’s PreKindergarteners.  \nA second grant—$15 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Investing in Innovation (i3) program—would fund scholarships for more than 1,000 lowincome","cbCaieSZI8X9ElOc","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaieSZI8X9ElOc","pdf",655721,27,"English","# Introduction\n# Decade of Setbacks","[{\"question\":\"What challenge did Minnesota face for early learning services around 2008?\",\"answer\":\"Research concluded Minnesota lacked a political champion within the governor’s office or a clear executive agency for early learning. 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