The Governor’s Proposed Budget Threatens to Devastate Campus Child Care/Lab Schools !
What CCCECE is doing about it.
If you’ve been following the release of the governor’s proposed budget for 2012-13 and beyond you know it is by far the biggest threat we’ve faced in regards to child development centers and lab schools on our campuses. I want you to know that CCCECE is aware of this problem and will be working diligently in the coming weeks to coordinate efforts with other programs and agencies to significantly change this portion of his proposed budget.
There is much to be concerned about in the child care portion of the budget and very little of it is worth our support but I want to focus on those things that will most directly impact the community colleges.
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CCCECE and EPEC Release a Paper on the Threats Faced by Community College Child Development Departments
On February 7 the Early Childhood Professional Development and Education Collaborative (EPEC) and CCCECE jointly released a paper (see attached) outlining the threats faced by community college child development departments. The paper talks about the threat to workforce education because of the budget squeeze. It calls for the development of a new mode of funding for our departments and our lab schools. Click here for more info and a link to the paper.
CCCECE President Gordon's Testimony before the Joint Hearing Senate Human Services And Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 On Health And Human Services
Joel Gordon, President, California Community College Early Childhood Educators Dean, Early Childhood Education, Santa Rosa Junior College
Community college child development departments, which have provided the bedrock for California’s ECE workforce training and care for families of student parents are at great risk. The current budget crisis has caused colleges across the state to significantly alter how they can provide high-quality, timely educational experiences to students. It is both ironic and sad that while the state has turned significantly to community college ECE departments as the core of its workforce training it has, at the same time, reduced the viability of those programs.
Submit Your AS-T to the Chancellor's Office
and Your 8 Course Outlines to C-ID
The AS-T is based on the work of CAP (the Curriculum alignment Project), and as mandated by the legislation in SB 1440, it specifies degree pathway from the CA community colleges to the state university system. See it at: www.c-id The first step is to gain approval of your ECE AS-T from your local curriculum process. Then your college submits the degree to the Chancellor's Office. Check out this link for the template for transfer documentation required by the State Chancellor's Office
Go to: http://www.sb1440.org/Counseling.aspx for a list of approved ECE/CD AS-Ts
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