55% of Florida kids who need mental health help don’t get it. One official has a solution

Florida has an estimated 400,000 children who need behavioral-health services, but 55 percent of them don’t get any treatment, members of a health care panel were told last week.  That translates to 220,000 children across the state, or about one child in every classroom, health official Jeffrey Brosco told members of the Florida Healthy Kids…

Quality pre-K found to have multi-generational effects

Can talking during snack time and making Jell-O in pre-K help break the cycle of poverty?  One of the leading experts on the effects of early education thinks so.  A bevy of research touts the benefits of high-quality early education, but Nobel prize-winning economist James Heckman’s most recent published work from the University of Chicago…