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Since January 2001, Fight Crime: Invest in Kids Pennsylvania has generated more than 18 million print and broadcast media impressions through earned (not paid) news articles, feature stories, newspaper editorials, opinion columns, letters to the editor and television and radio reports. Our goal is to help policymakers and the public understand the significant crime prevention and taxpayer savings benefits of strategic investments in at-risk kids that help them get the right start in life.

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The Patriot-News

Pay for Preschool, cut crime, safety group says

By John Luciew

Pennsylvania, June 13, 2006 Spend now on preschool or spend later on prison.

That's the message from Fight Crime: Invest in Kids in Pennsylvania, a statewide anti-crime organization that's calling on the Legislature to increase spending for Head Start and pre-kindergarten.

Bruce R. Clash, the group's state director, was joined yesterday by Dauphin County and Harrisburg school and law enforcement officials making the appeal in a city preschool classroom as more than a dozen 3- and 4-year-olds molded Play-Doh...

The [group] is asking the Legislature to increase Head Start spending by $15 million in the 2006-07 budget, which is up for debate this month.

The group also is seeking to protect a proposed $50 million hike in Accountability Block Grant funds, which school districts can use to fund preschool and other specialized programs...

The law enforcement officials said spending more on Head Start and early childhood education also would help them fight crime.

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