Early Childhood Expulsions and Suspensions Undermine Our Nation’s Most Promising Agent of Opportunity and Social Justice
This brief presents the latest information regarding early childhood expulsions and suspensions with a special emphasis on how continuing gender and race disparities violate the civil rights of many of our youngest learners and contribute to our nation’s costly achievement gap by locking our boys and African-American children out of educational opportunities and diminishing the ability of early education to provide the social justice remedy it was designed to produce.
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Blog May 27, 2026
Homeless Mothers and Children: Crushing Impacts, Comprehensive Solutions
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“We can’t just go on chin up, chest out without eventually having a breakdown. We have to deal with the trauma. If we don’t get healed, it will just hit and hit.” ~Cynthia Garcia
Trauma-Informed Care Necessary for Refugees
Blog March 28, 2022
In this blog, Susan Hibbard executive director of BUILD, addresses the war in Ukraine and its impact on children and their families.