Press Releases
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Eight School Systems Receive Funding for Ready Schools Initiatives, March 19, 2008
Smart Start Welcomes Seven New Board Members, Feb 07, 2008
Smart Start receives RBC Centura Ready Schools Grant, July 12, 2007
Seventeen Smart Start Partnerships honored for exceeding goals (May 30, 2007)
National Smart Start Conference starts Wednesday in Greensboro, May 7, 2007
Governor Easley proclaims April as Month of the Young Child, April 5, 2007
Child Advocates to Rally and
Tell Legislature:
Increase Funding for Smart Start, March 9, 2007
Smart Start President Karen Ponder
receives
Order of the Long Leaf Pine, January 18, 2007
Ponder Announces Plan to Step Down, August 14, 2006
5th annual Keep the Promise
Day draws hundreds, May 23, 2006
Smart Start to host Keep the Promise
Day on Tuesday, May 23 at 10:30 a.m., May 19, 2006
Smart Start Included in Governor's Budget,May
9, 2006
Smart Start Receive $5 Million Grant, February 9, 2006
Grants Awarded to 13 Smart Start Partnerships
Total Over $295,000 November 28, 2005
Smart Start wins NC State Treasurer's
Award for Excellence in Accounting and Financial Management
Statewide Poll Shows North Carolinians
Think Education Spending More Important Than "Holding the Line on Taxes"
New National Research Reinforces
Smart Start Mission
On Oct. 13 NPR ran a story on Smart Start's first 10 years. Click this link
to hear it: "NPR
: N.C. Child Care Program Seen as National Model"
Smart Start Kids Wins Regional Emmy February
9, 2004