Create a Presidential Early Learning Council

No sign yet that White House is creating an early-learning council

Updated: Monday, December 21st, 2009 | By Louis Jacobson

During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to "create a Presidential Early Learning Council to coordinate (early childhood education) across all levels of government and ensure that we're providing these children and families with the highest-quality programs."
 
While we don't presume to say that the administration has done nothing on early childhood education -- the administration included a boost of $1.1 billion in the economic stimulus package to expand the Early Head Start program, to cite one example -- this promise called for the creation of a very specific panel.
 
So far, we've found no evidence that such a panel has been created. Neither the White House press office nor electronic searches through Whitehouse.gov, Google or Nexis turned up any tangible activity on this promise.
 
If and when the administration takes action on this promise, we'll be happy to change our rating. But for now we're calling it Stalled.

Sources:

Text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
 
Internet and Nexis searches that produced no results.