The Governor’s May Budget Revision Continues to Devastate Early Care & Education
From the May 21 CCCCECE Shoutout
CCCECE Budget Update – Analysis of May Revise. Prepared by Mary Jane Maguire-Fong, CCCECE Northern California VP Public Policy (5.16.12) The Governor proposes budget savings by suggesting that state-subsidized child care is not an educational program. The Governor argues that we have two separate kinds of subsidized programs – child care and state preschool. He is trying to create the impression that these two are completely separate programs with completely separate missions. Here is the language used in the May Revise: “Subsidized Child Care includes a variety of programs that are designed to support low-income families so they may remain gainfully employed. These programs are primarily administered by the State Department of Education (SDE) through non-Proposition 98 funding and the annual federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) grant. Additionally, part-day preschool programs, funded through Proposition 98, meet a child care need, but are also designed as an educational program to help ensure children develop the skills needed for success in school.” What the Governor fails to realize is the funds for “subsidized child care,” just like the funds for “state preschool” are designed to meet the educational needs of children to assure their success in school. Contrary to what the Governor suggests, one program is not the “educational” program and the other the “child care” program. To read more and download an advocacy letter ... Click here ...
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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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