CHICAGO – The younger children are taken out of poverty-stricken stressful environments and placed into warm, encouraging settings, the healthier their brains and brain development will be, Ounce of Prevention’s Diana Rauner told an audience at the North Shore Country Day School in 2013.
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Mrs. Rauner, the wife of GOP gubernatorial candidate Bruce Rauner, has a passion for providing wholesome atmospheres and education for infants, toddlers and preschoolers living in poor communities. For years, the Rauners have been heavily involved in promoting public charter schools and early childhood education.
During her 12 minute speech, Mrs. Rauner – who holds a doctorate in education – acknowledged the Ounce’s impact on the national Pre-K effort President Obama introduced and has promoted.
“We are very excited that President Obama, who learned a lot of what he learned from Chicago and the adovcacy efforts of many of us has brought Preschool for All – a Chicago, an Illinois creaton to the entire country – that’s the name of his new early childhood program – we’re very proud of that,” Mrs. Rauner said.
“We know that what’s critical about that is that it’s actually a focus on quality, it’s a focus on not just making sure children are custodially cared for while their parents are off working,” Mrs. Rauner said, “but actually that the teachers that will be helping those children develop will have the training, the knowledge and the skills and the resources to give these poor children the kind of exquisite classrooms and exquisite, finely-attuned and very well trained teachers that you have here at North Shore Country Day …”
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