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Kids Ready to Succeed, California Ready to Lead: 2014 Early Learning Proposals

Kids Ready to Succeed, California Ready to Lead: 2014 Early Learning Proposals. 2014: A Big Year for Early Learning.

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Kids Ready to Succeed, California Ready to Lead: 2014 Early Learning Proposals

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  1. Kids Ready to Succeed, California Ready to Lead: 2014 Early Learning Proposals

  2. 2014: A Big Year for Early Learning New York Times: “All of a sudden, early childhood education is really, really popular. Everybody’s favorite. If early childhood education were an actor, it would be Tom Hanks or Meryl Streep. If it were a video game, it would be Candy Crush or Angry Birds…”

  3. Birth Through 5 Policy Proposals in 2014 Building upon and improving California's early learning system so it serves more children in high-quality programs, and all children are ready for success in school

  4. California’s Early Childhood Education System

  5. SB 837: Expanding and Improving Transitional Kindergarten Transitional kindergarten is hereby established to: • Be age and developmentally appropriate. • Build on high-quality early learning and child care programs, including federal Head Start programs, to sustain the gains that children achieve attending those programs. • Support all children in developing the skills necessary for success in school and life. These skills shall include, but are not limited to, all of the following: • Cognitive skills such as language, early literacy and numeracy • Social-emotional skills such as perseverance, self-control, self-esteem, motivation and conscientiousness • Physical skills such as gross and fine motor development, and healthy eating habits

  6. TK for All: Five Year Phase-in Allows: 1) districts, providers to expand access slowly2) teachers, associate teachers time to obtain education, training 3) gradual implementation in line with improving state budget projections 1. 350,000 is based on a estimated 70% enrollment rate, which is similar to the experience of other states with preschool for all such as Oklahoma, Georgia, and Florida

  7. TK for All: Higher Quality Programs Standards would be based on Preschool Learning Foundations and aligned with Kindergarten Common Core Standards

  8. TK for All: New Opportunities for Teachers • Compensation on par with K-12 colleagues • At end of the five year phase-in: • Head teachers required to hold credential, 24 units in early childhoodeducation • Associate teachers required to hold Associate’s degree, 24 units in early childhood education • Estimated 8,000 new teaching positions, 12,000 associate teaching positions created

  9. TK for All: Vision and Goals Goal: Maintain and utilize mixed delivery system Goal: Encourage and incentivize full-day, full-year programs for low-income 4 year olds Goal: Raise reimbursement rates across the board

  10. Growing Support for SB 837 Sunday, February 16, 2014 Editorial: Pre-kindergarten for all 4-year-olds makes sense Thursday, February 13, 2014 Transitional kindergarten for all would lessen inequality By Paul Miller Friday, January 31, 2014Our economic future depends on early investments in kidsBy Ann O’Leary Friday, January 27, 2014Op-ed: California should give all kids the pre-K advantageBy David L. Kirp Friday, December 20, 2013 Editorial: Universal preschool would be a boon to California families, taxpayers

  11. Birth through Age 3: Making the Case • The first three years of life are a period of dynamic and unparalleled brain development in which children acquire the ability to think, speak, learn and reason. • During these first 36 months, children need good health, strong families and positive early learning experiences to lay the foundation for later school success. • Low-income infants and toddlers are at a greater risk for a variety of poorer outcomes and vulnerabilities, such as later school failure, learning disabilities, behavior problems, developmental delay, and health impairments.

  12. Introducing SB 1123: California Strong Start Program Introduced by author Senator Carol Liu, SB 1123 would state that it is the Legislature’s intent to enact legislation that would establish the California Strong Start program by redesigning the General Child Care Program for infants and toddlers into a comprehensive, evidence-based, locally controlled program, in order to improve the healthy development and school readiness of California’s most vulnerable children.

  13. SB 1123: California Strong Start Program • Serve and nurture more of the most vulnerable children B-3 receiving high-quality, comprehensive services to meet needs for early learning, health, family support • Build on existing Title 5 General Child Care • Provide adequate funding not only torestore and expand services but transform system to support comprehensive services modeled after Early Head Start, other quality programs

  14. SB 1123: The Impact • California could more than double number of 3 year olds and infants and toddlers served • Combines part-day and full-day State Preschool for 3 year olds with General Child Care for infants and toddlers program • $175 million of $350 million previously spent on part-day State Preschool will help fund B-3 program

  15. SB 1123: Comprehensive, High-Quality Services Services could include: • Full- and part-day State Preschool for 3 year olds • Full- and part-day infant and toddler care • Family engagement and support • Voluntary home visitation • Nutrition and other health services • Early intervention • Early childhood mental health

  16. Federal Momentum: State of the Union “Research shows that one of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.” President Obama, 2014 State of the Union

  17. Federal Momentum: Bipartisan Omnibus Spending Bill 2014 federal budget: • $1.025 billion increase for Head Start • $154 million increase for Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) • $250 million for new round of Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge

  18. Federal Momentum: Strong Start for America’s Children Act • Expands access and quality to voluntary preschool for 4 year olds from families below 200% of the federal poverty line • Gives Early Head Start programs the ability to reach more eligible children through partnerships with child care programs to improve quality • Endorses the expansion of evidence-based home visiting programs that have been shown to have a range of positive impacts on parenting • Urges Congress to fund evidence-based, voluntary home visitation programs under Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV)

  19. Questions? Email your questions about SB 837 to SB837questions@cde.ca.gov Or visit our SB 837 FAQ page: www.earlyedgecalifornia.org/ SB837FAQ

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