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California is home to around 350,000 Native American youth under 18, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://first5center.org/\">First 5 Center for Children’s policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"California child welfare agencies must investigate claims of Native American ancestry before separating a family, the California Supreme Court stressed in a new ruling that affects several contested cases.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1724446600,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":997},"headData":{"title":"California Law Helps Tribes Keep Kids Out of Foster Care. 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A New Court Ruling Strengthens Their Hand","datePublished":"2024-08-25T07:30:27-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-23T13:56:40-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/author/shaanth-nanguneri/\">Shaanth Nanguneri\u003c/a>, CalMatters","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/12001659/california-law-helps-tribes-keep-kids-out-of-foster-care-a-new-court-ruling-strengthens-their-hand","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For nearly a century, California and other states forced Native American youth into boarding schools, aiming to erase their cultural practices while separating children from their parents and placing them in a foster system that often left them without any ties to their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was only in the late 1970s that the federal government passed a law to protect families from separation, ensuring that child welfare agencies inquire about Native ancestry and work to keep tribes, relatives and communities together. Decades later, contested cases continue to appear regularly before California courts, where state protections are stronger than federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-supreme-court/\">California Supreme Court\u003c/a> on Monday reinforced those rules in a new decision, stressing that \u003ca href=\"https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S275578.PDF\">child welfare agencies must investigate (PDF)\u003c/a> whether children have Native American ancestry before placing them in foster care. It’s a decision that could strengthen tribes’ hand in disputes over separating families by compelling social workers to go a step further before removing a child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Incidentally, the case turned on parents who do not claim to have any tribal affiliations or Native ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services in 2019 accused two children’s parents of substance abuse and domestic violence, eventually getting their custody terminated in court. Their mother, Angelica A., has not indicated in court documents that she is Native American, but she appealed the decision on the grounds that officials did not complete a proper inquiry into her children’s heritage. Her last name is not listed in the ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By a 5–2 majority, the justices agreed with the mother, calling into question not just this family’s case but nearly two dozen other cases involving child custody and California courts. They gave little weight to concerns over whether an additional review would make a difference in the actual placement of the children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The department’s inquiry extended no further than mother and father, both of whom have long-standing issues with substance use disorder, even though their parents, siblings, and father’s cousin were readily available and had been interviewed by the department,” Justice Kelli Evans wrote in the majority opinion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The justices reversed a juvenile court’s decision to terminate the parents’ rights on the condition that the agency conduct an “adequate inquiry, supported by record documentation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shiara Davila-Morales, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, said the department could not comment in time for publication.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Indian Child Welfare Act recently upheld\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The issue of child custody and Native Americans has \u003ca href=\"https://imprintnews.org/child-welfare-2/nations-first-family-separation-policy-indian-child-welfare-act/32431\">long been a point of painful history\u003c/a> in the United States. In June 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://www.americanbar.org/groups/crsj/publications/human_rights_magazine_home/native-american-issues/haaland-v-brackeen/#:~:text=Brackeen%20and%2C%20in%20a%207,people%20in%20the%20United%20States.\">upheld the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act,\u003c/a> which regulates the removal and out-of-home placement of Native children. A July 2024 report from the U.S. Department of the Interior found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/07/30/indian-boarding-schools-native-americans/#:~:text=More%20than%20900%20Native%20American%20children%20died%20while%20being%20forced,children%20and%20destroy%20their%20culture.\">over 900 children died nationwide\u003c/a> in forced boarding schools from 1819 to 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, over half of Native American youth in California’s foster care system end up in non-relative and non-Native households, a number that has remained relatively steady in the past decade, according to state \u003ca href=\"https://ccwip.berkeley.edu/childwelfare/reports/4E/MTSG/r/fcp/l\">data analyzed by researchers at UC Berkeley.\u003c/a> Tribes have long argued they have a necessary stake in ensuring the well-being of Native youth and that social workers must make good-faith attempts to inquire about ancestry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ironically, such (an) inquiry could take only a few days to complete — which is significantly faster than the nearly two years that this appeal was litigated,” wrote Michelle Castagne, executive director of the California Tribal Families Coalition, in a statement. “The court’s decision recognizes the vital role that tribes have in the lives of tribal children and families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dissent emphasizes children’s ‘instability’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The two dissenting justices blasted the majority for taking a “formulaic approach” that “needlessly condemns these children and others like them to more uncertainty, more instability and more trauma.” The two children were taken into the care of their paternal grandparents, according to the ruling, who are ready to formally adopt them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wrote that the children would have been better off by resolving the case quickly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"mindshift_64338,news_11985946,news_11985946"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nonetheless, because the department failed to ask additional family members about the children’s ancestry, my colleagues invoke a rule of automatic conditional reversal that is wholly inconsistent with the way in which California courts have assessed state law error for almost seven decades,” Justice Joshua Groban wrote in the dissent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John L. Dodd, an attorney representing the mother, said those concerns are overblown. For far too long, he said, social workers have been making inadequate inquiries about Native ancestry. It’s an often unintentional omission, he said, because investigators are juggling delicate family dynamics involving substance abuse or mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the family he represented did not indicate having any Native ancestry, he said the case matters because it sends a message to child welfare agencies that they can’t ignore state and federal regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the social worker has to do is ask three or four questions when the social worker is doing a report,” he told CalMatters. “So the parade of horribles that the dissent is concerned about is not going to occur because now everybody knows that you can’t just risk it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children at the center of the case are now 8 and 6 years old, according to the decision, and for the four years it has lasted, they have been in their grandparent’s custody. California is home to around 350,000 Native American youth under 18, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://first5center.org/\">First 5 Center for Children’s policy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/12001659/california-law-helps-tribes-keep-kids-out-of-foster-care-a-new-court-ruling-strengthens-their-hand","authors":["byline_news_12001659"],"categories":["news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_29755","news_20754","news_27626","news_21512"],"affiliates":["news_18481"],"featImg":"news_12001661","label":"news_18481"},"news_11997115":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11997115","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11997115","score":null,"sort":[1721991631000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeley-report-finds-enrollment-in-californias-public-preschool-programs-hasnt-recovered-from-pandemic","title":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic","publishDate":1721991631,"format":"standard","headTitle":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California’s Public Preschool Programs Hasn’t Recovered From Pandemic | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Since 2021, the federal and state governments have boosted spending on child care and early education by more than $5 billion to help California’s youngest kids recover from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many families have not responded with the same level of enthusiasm, according to \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAP_2Jm3Uv4m0zbqy4Tk59b2yxM3k3Y9/view\">an analysis of state data (PDF)\u003c/a> published Wednesday by researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Education. While enrollment in transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/yr24rel30.asp\">has significantly grown\u003c/a> in the last three years as the state admits more 4-year-olds into the new grade, demand for other programs that serve this age group, such as Head Start and the California State Preschool Program, has been relatively flat, according to the new findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show that overall enrollment in public preschool has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to Bruce Fuller, who led the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have made very little progress since 2019,” said Fuller, an education and public policy professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early childhood education in California has long been a patchwork of government-run preschools, private and nonprofit centers, and family child care sites that are run out of providers’ homes. The state typically pays for children from the lowest-income homes. An example is vouchers that give parents the option of putting their kids in a center or at home, under the care of a provider, family member or friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When lawmakers signed off on a $2.7 billion plan to make transitional kindergarten, or TK, available to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year, experts warned it would take away students and teachers from other early childhood education programs, including private preschools because it’s free and offers teachers better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state responded to that concern by expanding the California State Preschool Program and widening access to that program for 3- and 4-year-olds from lower-income households. The state focuses on this population because \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/opre/%232023-226%20Benefits%20from%20ECE%20Highlight%20508.pdf\">research shows (PDF)\u003c/a> that kids from lower-income households gain more academic and social skills and benefit more from two years of participating in a high-quality preschool program than kids from more affluent households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-800x837.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-1020x1067.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-160x167.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fuller said these policies contradict each other and add more confusion to what he calls a “crazy quilt of programs that’s hard for parents to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller points to a 20% jump in vouchers between 2021 and 2023, indicating a growing preference for child care arrangements that offer parents more choice and flexibility but discourage them from signing up for preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care advocates say the popularity of vouchers points to a greater need for child care that matches families’ individual needs, whether during irregular hours for those who work weekend or night shifts or in a setting that aligns with their cultural or linguistic preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you build (a preschool program), people will not come,” said Linda Asato, executive director of the nonprofit California Child Care Resource & Referral Network. “It may not make sense for families. When setting that goal of universal TK, it can’t be done in a vacuum because it may not be what everyone wants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a pandemic-era “hold harmless” policy, which guarantees a certain level of funding regardless of the number of children enrolled, may have had an unintended consequence for California State Preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During COVID, those programs continued to get the same budget they had in 2019,” Fuller said. “Initially, that was sensible because you didn’t want to start laying off staff and closing down preschools, but it also doesn’t create an incentive to move towards [enrolling 3-year-olds] because why not have smaller classes, and maybe bump up your salary a little bit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1591\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg 1591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1020x850.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1536x1280.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, $713 million in unspent California State Preschool Program funding was returned to the state coffers, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/K-12Education.pdf\">summary of the 2024–25 state budget (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Muratsuchi, who chairs the state Assembly’s education committee, acknowledges the expansion of TK is disrupting other programs and that more work needs to be done to inform parents about their options and ensure there are enough workers and facilities to provide a high-quality early childhood education for all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a transitional period,” said Muratsuchi, a Democrat from Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also identified zip codes that are populated with young kids but don’t have few, if any, public preschool programs. They include parts of the Central Valley and Central Coast, plus fast-growing working-class suburbs like Antioch and Livermore in the Bay Area. Fuller said these communities lack the “civic infrastructure,” like community-based organizations or school districts, to bid for state funding for a preschool program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the analysis will compel state officials to target funding on families that have almost no preschool options in their community and simplify the child care and early education system for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muratsuchi thinks one possible solution is to further invest in community schools that provide a variety of social support services for students and their families on campus, and those services could include childcare and preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to continue to build upon this community school model and take advantage of the existing public school infrastructure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722274610,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":907},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic | KQED","description":"The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","socialDescription":"The new analysis state data into three public preschool programs comes despite a $5 billion boost in spending on early education in California.","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"UC Berkeley Report Finds Enrollment in California's Public Preschool Programs Hasn't Recovered From Pandemic","datePublished":"2024-07-26T04:00:31-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-29T10:36:50-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/cfdfcf92-89cb-4ecf-b349-b1bc011dd09e/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11997115","templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11997115/uc-berkeley-report-finds-enrollment-in-californias-public-preschool-programs-hasnt-recovered-from-pandemic","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Since 2021, the federal and state governments have boosted spending on child care and early education by more than $5 billion to help California’s youngest kids recover from COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, many families have not responded with the same level of enthusiasm, according to \u003ca href=\"https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XAP_2Jm3Uv4m0zbqy4Tk59b2yxM3k3Y9/view\">an analysis of state data (PDF)\u003c/a> published Wednesday by researchers at the UC Berkeley School of Education. While enrollment in transitional kindergarten \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr24/yr24rel30.asp\">has significantly grown\u003c/a> in the last three years as the state admits more 4-year-olds into the new grade, demand for other programs that serve this age group, such as Head Start and the California State Preschool Program, has been relatively flat, according to the new findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data show that overall enrollment in public preschool has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, according to Bruce Fuller, who led the analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just have made very little progress since 2019,” said Fuller, an education and public policy professor at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early childhood education in California has long been a patchwork of government-run preschools, private and nonprofit centers, and family child care sites that are run out of providers’ homes. The state typically pays for children from the lowest-income homes. An example is vouchers that give parents the option of putting their kids in a center or at home, under the care of a provider, family member or friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When lawmakers signed off on a $2.7 billion plan to make transitional kindergarten, or TK, available to all 4-year-olds by the 2025–26 school year, experts warned it would take away students and teachers from other early childhood education programs, including private preschools because it’s free and offers teachers better pay and benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state responded to that concern by expanding the California State Preschool Program and widening access to that program for 3- and 4-year-olds from lower-income households. The state focuses on this population because \u003ca href=\"https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/opre/%232023-226%20Benefits%20from%20ECE%20Highlight%20508.pdf\">research shows (PDF)\u003c/a> that kids from lower-income households gain more academic and social skills and benefit more from two years of participating in a high-quality preschool program than kids from more affluent households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997124\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937.jpg 1280w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-800x837.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-1020x1067.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.01 AM-scaled-e1721844340937-160x167.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Fuller said these policies contradict each other and add more confusion to what he calls a “crazy quilt of programs that’s hard for parents to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuller points to a 20% jump in vouchers between 2021 and 2023, indicating a growing preference for child care arrangements that offer parents more choice and flexibility but discourage them from signing up for preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care advocates say the popularity of vouchers points to a greater need for child care that matches families’ individual needs, whether during irregular hours for those who work weekend or night shifts or in a setting that aligns with their cultural or linguistic preferences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just because you build (a preschool program), people will not come,” said Linda Asato, executive director of the nonprofit California Child Care Resource & Referral Network. “It may not make sense for families. When setting that goal of universal TK, it can’t be done in a vacuum because it may not be what everyone wants.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a pandemic-era “hold harmless” policy, which guarantees a certain level of funding regardless of the number of children enrolled, may have had an unintended consequence for California State Preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During COVID, those programs continued to get the same budget they had in 2019,” Fuller said. “Initially, that was sensible because you didn’t want to start laying off staff and closing down preschools, but it also doesn’t create an incentive to move towards [enrolling 3-year-olds] because why not have smaller classes, and maybe bump up your salary a little bit?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11997130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09%E2%80%AFAM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1591\" height=\"1326\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499.jpg 1591w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-800x667.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1020x850.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-160x133.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Image-7-24-24-at-11.09 AM-scaled-e1721844707499-1536x1280.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1591px) 100vw, 1591px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result, $713 million in unspent California State Preschool Program funding was returned to the state coffers, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/2024-25/pdf/Enacted/BudgetSummary/K-12Education.pdf\">summary of the 2024–25 state budget (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Al Muratsuchi, who chairs the state Assembly’s education committee, acknowledges the expansion of TK is disrupting other programs and that more work needs to be done to inform parents about their options and ensure there are enough workers and facilities to provide a high-quality early childhood education for all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are in a transitional period,” said Muratsuchi, a Democrat from Torrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The analysis also identified zip codes that are populated with young kids but don’t have few, if any, public preschool programs. They include parts of the Central Valley and Central Coast, plus fast-growing working-class suburbs like Antioch and Livermore in the Bay Area. Fuller said these communities lack the “civic infrastructure,” like community-based organizations or school districts, to bid for state funding for a preschool program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He hopes the analysis will compel state officials to target funding on families that have almost no preschool options in their community and simplify the child care and early education system for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muratsuchi thinks one possible solution is to further invest in community schools that provide a variety of social support services for students and their families on campus, and those services could include childcare and preschool programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to continue to build upon this community school model and take advantage of the existing public school infrastructure,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11997115/uc-berkeley-report-finds-enrollment-in-californias-public-preschool-programs-hasnt-recovered-from-pandemic","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_30911","news_20754","news_22570"],"featImg":"news_11997144","label":"news"},"news_11988490":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11988490","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11988490","score":null,"sort":[1717199478000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"under-sf-mayors-plan-more-middle-income-families-would-qualify-for-subsidized-child-care","title":"Under SF Mayor's Plan, More Middle-Income Families Would Qualify for Subsidized Child Care","publishDate":1717199478,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Under SF Mayor’s Plan, More Middle-Income Families Would Qualify for Subsidized Child Care | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to expand child care subsidies for middle-income families in San Francisco and create a program for evening and weekend child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will invest about $60 million per year for the next two years from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">Proposition C\u003c/a>, a commercial rent tax that voters approved in 2018 to fund child care services in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise of Baby Prop. C is to build out a truly universal early care and education system in San Francisco,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who worked with the mayor to create the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department already spends about $180 million per year in Proposition C funding to subsidize child care costs for low-income families, build or renovate child care centers, and attract and train child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is committed to supporting our families and children by providing a strong foundation for early childhood services,” Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Breed’s new plans, the city would allocate more funding to increase child care subsidies to families earning up to 150% of the Area Median Income or about $224,800 for a family of four. Currently, eligibility is capped at 110% of AMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also create a pilot program for evening and weekend child care to help meet the needs of parents who work in fields like health care, retail and building security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are far long, long, long-awaited services even before Baby Prop. C came into the scene,” Ingrid Mezquita, executive director of the Department of Early Childhood, told KQED. “There are many families who have nonstandard hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In total, the additional money Breed wants to spend would subsidize care for an additional 6,500 kids, for a total of about 25,000.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" tag=\"child-care\"]San Francisco began collecting Proposition C taxes in 2018 after the measure was passed but was not able to spend it until a lawsuit challenging it was cleared up in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The boost in spending on early child care comes as other city departments and services are being cut to balance the city’s 2024–26 budget, and the mayor is campaigning for reelection in the fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed will submit her proposed budget to the Board of Supervisors for review and approval in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mark Farrell, who is running against Breed in November, also announced a child care spending plan this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his plan would allocate $400 million of Proposition C funding to subsidize care for 13,000 children in San Francisco. Farrell called for many of the same improvements that Breed has also touted, such as increasing the pipeline of child care workers, increasing locations for child care, and making preschool available to all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Farrell’s ideas include turning vacant spaces owned by the San Francisco Unified District and vacant commercial office space into child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child care is too expensive and too hard to find,” Farrell said in a statement. “The status quo forces many parents, particularly mothers, to choose between their careers and caring for their children.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mayor London Breed's plan would also create a pilot program for evening and weekend child care for parents working in fields like health care, retail and building security.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1722986762,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":537},"headData":{"title":"Under SF Mayor's Plan, More Middle-Income Families Would Qualify for Subsidized Child Care | KQED","description":"Mayor London Breed's plan would also create a pilot program for evening and weekend child care for parents working in fields like health care, retail and building security.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Under SF Mayor's Plan, More Middle-Income Families Would Qualify for Subsidized Child Care","datePublished":"2024-05-31T16:51:18-07:00","dateModified":"2024-08-06T16:26:02-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprStoryId":"kqed-11988490","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11988490/under-sf-mayors-plan-more-middle-income-families-would-qualify-for-subsidized-child-care","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to expand child care subsidies for middle-income families in San Francisco and create a program for evening and weekend child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city will invest about $60 million per year for the next two years from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">Proposition C\u003c/a>, a commercial rent tax that voters approved in 2018 to fund child care services in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The promise of Baby Prop. C is to build out a truly universal early care and education system in San Francisco,” said Supervisor Myrna Melgar, who worked with the mayor to create the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department already spends about $180 million per year in Proposition C funding to subsidize child care costs for low-income families, build or renovate child care centers, and attract and train child care workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco is committed to supporting our families and children by providing a strong foundation for early childhood services,” Breed said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under Breed’s new plans, the city would allocate more funding to increase child care subsidies to families earning up to 150% of the Area Median Income or about $224,800 for a family of four. Currently, eligibility is capped at 110% of AMI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would also create a pilot program for evening and weekend child care to help meet the needs of parents who work in fields like health care, retail and building security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are far long, long, long-awaited services even before Baby Prop. 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Farrell called for many of the same improvements that Breed has also touted, such as increasing the pipeline of child care workers, increasing locations for child care, and making preschool available to all kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Farrell’s ideas include turning vacant spaces owned by the San Francisco Unified District and vacant commercial office space into child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Child care is too expensive and too hard to find,” Farrell said in a statement. “The status quo forces many parents, particularly mothers, to choose between their careers and caring for their children.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11988490/under-sf-mayors-plan-more-middle-income-families-would-qualify-for-subsidized-child-care","authors":["11666"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25647","news_20754","news_32768","news_25966","news_27626","news_6931","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11988519","label":"news"},"news_11984169":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11984169","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11984169","score":null,"sort":[1714164766000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"state-court-upholds-alameda-county-tax-measure-yielding-hundreds-of-millions-for-child-care","title":"State Court Upholds Alameda County Tax Measure Yielding Hundreds of Millions for Child Care","publishDate":1714164766,"format":"standard","headTitle":"State Court Upholds Alameda County Tax Measure Yielding Hundreds of Millions for Child Care | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After four years of legal debate, California’s highest court upheld an Alameda County sales tax measure to increase access to child care and pediatric health care for lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ruling makes Alameda County the latest Bay Area local government to increase a tax to fund early childhood education and care. San Francisco began implementing Baby Proposition C about two years ago after a legal challenge to the commercial tax initiative was resolved in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2410200&doc_no=A166404&request_token=NiIwLSEnXkw7W1BZSyMtTE9IMEw6UVxfJSM%2BVzpSMCAgCg%3D%3D\">denied a petition\u003c/a> to review a lower court’s ruling that Measure C is legitimate, thus making that decision final. That will allow the county to spend hundreds of millions of dollars collected from the 0.5% sales tax since July 2021. The funds have been held in escrow pending a taxpayer group’s legal challenge to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling “validates the will of Alameda County voters to fund early education and ensure child care is accessible to all families, and that the labor of child care providers is honored and respected,” Clarissa Doutherd, executive director of the advocacy group Parent Voices Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled for the initial funding that will lift up children and families throughout the county who have had to suffer through delays that would have helped address growing poverty, under-resourced child care facilities, and severe pediatric needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was passed by 64% of voters in March 2020, but the Alameda County Taxpayers Association argued\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/07/alameda-countys-measure-c-for-child-care-funding-scores-a-legal-win-but-money-cant-flow-yet/\"> that state law requires 66%, or two-thirds vote, to pass\u003c/a> for local governments to raise taxes for a specific purpose. The group contends that elected officials, including the late county supervisor Wilma Chan, initiated the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county countered that the measure was put on the ballot after enough signatures were gathered to support it. For that reason, only a simple majority is needed for a citizen initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doutherd’s effort to put the measure before voters was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.clarissasbattle.com/\">subject of a documentary called “Clarissa’s Battle.”\u003c/a> Her struggle as a single mother trying to maintain work as a bookkeeper and pay for preschool for her son led to her advocacy for affordable early childhood education.[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='early-childhood']“What this means for me is that in my lifetime, I will see a huge transformation through this initiative that will make sure that parents at least will have an easier time and not know the panic and the fear and the pain of not being able to support themselves and go to work or go to school or even just know that their children are in a safe, nurturing environment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://first5alameda.org/files/Appendix%20C-%20Local%20Child%20Care%20Ballot%20Measures.pdf\">When it was first proposed,\u003c/a> officials estimated the tax would raise about $150 million a year over 20 years to add more subsidized child care slots, increase early educators’ pay to at least $15 per hour (with annual adjustments for inflation) and offer free or low-cost pediatric health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First 5 Alameda County, which will administer the child care fund, also plans to use the money to fund training and professional development classes for providers to raise the quality of early education programs. The effort mirrors an ongoing effort in San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">use revenue from a commercial rent tax \u003c/a>to better compensate early educators and lower child care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of this investment on Alameda County’s children, families and [early childhood education] workforce is not just transformative; it’s imperative for the health of our communities,” Kristin Spanos, CEO of First 5 Alameda County, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said 21 licensed child care centers and 270 in-home family child care businesses in the county closed permanently between 2019 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and deepened the vulnerabilities of our already fragile, underfunded and fragmented system of licensed care,” Spanos said. “Funding from Measure C is a significant milestone in our journey toward creating an equity-centered early childhood system of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A citizen oversight committee will oversee spending from the pediatric health care fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"After a long legal battle, the ruling makes Alameda County the latest Bay Area local government to increase a tax to fund early childhood education and care.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1721146590,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":16,"wordCount":699},"headData":{"title":"State Court Upholds Alameda County Tax Measure Yielding Hundreds of Millions for Child Care | KQED","description":"After a long legal battle, the ruling makes Alameda County the latest Bay Area local government to increase a tax to fund early childhood education and care.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"State Court Upholds Alameda County Tax Measure Yielding Hundreds of Millions for Child Care","datePublished":"2024-04-26T13:52:46-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-16T09:16:30-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11984169/state-court-upholds-alameda-county-tax-measure-yielding-hundreds-of-millions-for-child-care","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After four years of legal debate, California’s highest court upheld an Alameda County sales tax measure to increase access to child care and pediatric health care for lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This ruling makes Alameda County the latest Bay Area local government to increase a tax to fund early childhood education and care. San Francisco began implementing Baby Proposition C about two years ago after a legal challenge to the commercial tax initiative was resolved in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the state Supreme Court \u003ca href=\"https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2410200&doc_no=A166404&request_token=NiIwLSEnXkw7W1BZSyMtTE9IMEw6UVxfJSM%2BVzpSMCAgCg%3D%3D\">denied a petition\u003c/a> to review a lower court’s ruling that Measure C is legitimate, thus making that decision final. That will allow the county to spend hundreds of millions of dollars collected from the 0.5% sales tax since July 2021. The funds have been held in escrow pending a taxpayer group’s legal challenge to the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ruling “validates the will of Alameda County voters to fund early education and ensure child care is accessible to all families, and that the labor of child care providers is honored and respected,” Clarissa Doutherd, executive director of the advocacy group Parent Voices Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are thrilled for the initial funding that will lift up children and families throughout the county who have had to suffer through delays that would have helped address growing poverty, under-resourced child care facilities, and severe pediatric needs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was passed by 64% of voters in March 2020, but the Alameda County Taxpayers Association argued\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/07/alameda-countys-measure-c-for-child-care-funding-scores-a-legal-win-but-money-cant-flow-yet/\"> that state law requires 66%, or two-thirds vote, to pass\u003c/a> for local governments to raise taxes for a specific purpose. The group contends that elected officials, including the late county supervisor Wilma Chan, initiated the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county countered that the measure was put on the ballot after enough signatures were gathered to support it. For that reason, only a simple majority is needed for a citizen initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doutherd’s effort to put the measure before voters was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.clarissasbattle.com/\">subject of a documentary called “Clarissa’s Battle.”\u003c/a> Her struggle as a single mother trying to maintain work as a bookkeeper and pay for preschool for her son led to her advocacy for affordable early childhood education.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Coverage ","tag":"early-childhood"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What this means for me is that in my lifetime, I will see a huge transformation through this initiative that will make sure that parents at least will have an easier time and not know the panic and the fear and the pain of not being able to support themselves and go to work or go to school or even just know that their children are in a safe, nurturing environment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://first5alameda.org/files/Appendix%20C-%20Local%20Child%20Care%20Ballot%20Measures.pdf\">When it was first proposed,\u003c/a> officials estimated the tax would raise about $150 million a year over 20 years to add more subsidized child care slots, increase early educators’ pay to at least $15 per hour (with annual adjustments for inflation) and offer free or low-cost pediatric health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First 5 Alameda County, which will administer the child care fund, also plans to use the money to fund training and professional development classes for providers to raise the quality of early education programs. The effort mirrors an ongoing effort in San Francisco to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco\">use revenue from a commercial rent tax \u003c/a>to better compensate early educators and lower child care costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The impact of this investment on Alameda County’s children, families and [early childhood education] workforce is not just transformative; it’s imperative for the health of our communities,” Kristin Spanos, CEO of First 5 Alameda County, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said 21 licensed child care centers and 270 in-home family child care businesses in the county closed permanently between 2019 and 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The COVID-19 pandemic exposed and deepened the vulnerabilities of our already fragile, underfunded and fragmented system of licensed care,” Spanos said. “Funding from Measure C is a significant milestone in our journey toward creating an equity-centered early childhood system of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A citizen oversight committee will oversee spending from the pediatric health care fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11984169/state-court-upholds-alameda-county-tax-measure-yielding-hundreds-of-millions-for-child-care","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_260","news_20754","news_32102","news_32928","news_27626"],"featImg":"news_11984193","label":"news"},"news_11983586":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983586","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11983586","score":null,"sort":[1713640589000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1713640589,"format":"standard","title":"Despite California's Investments in Public Preschool, Child Care Challenges Continue","headTitle":"Despite California’s Investments in Public Preschool, Child Care Challenges Continue | KQED","content":"\u003cp>A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her husband had the option to enroll him in “transitional kindergarten,” a program offered for free by California elementary schools for some 4-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they kept their son, Ethan, in a private day care center in Concord, Contra Costa County, at a cost of $400 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitional kindergarten’s academic emphasis was appealing, but Ethan would have been in a half-day program, and options for after-school child care were limited. And for two parents with hectic work schedules in the hospitality industry, there was the convenience of having Ethan and his younger brother at the same day care, with a single stop for morning drop-off and evening pickup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ethan is navigating changes at home with a new younger brother and then possibly a new school where he is the youngest,” Quinn said. “That doesn’t even include the concerns around drop-off and pickups, including transportation to and from his class to after-school care at a different location. It is just a lot to consider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investments that California and other states have made in public preschool have helped many parents through a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/daycare-child-care-democrats-congress-2919cf689423f62d90e28f7f40de2f39\">child care crisis\u003c/a>, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable. But many parents say the programs don’t work for their families. Even when Pre–K lasts the whole school day, working parents struggle to find child care before 9 a.m. and after 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No state has a more ambitious plan for universal preschool than California, which plans to extend eligibility for transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by fall 2025 as part of a $2.7 billion, four-year expansion. The idea is to provide a two-year kindergarten program to prepare children earlier for the rigors of elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment in the optional program has grown more slowly than projected. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, had estimated about 120,000 students would enroll last year; however, the average daily attendance was around 91,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through December of this school year, the average daily attendance was about 125,000 students, said Sara Cortez, a policy analyst for the California Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, some families \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kindergarten-school-registration-homeschool-f6a0c3a8f97f8d6cf616f201f68c04fe\">no longer see the same value\u003c/a> in traditional kindergarten. Some are just as happy with programs that don’t have an academic component. School days requiring midday pickups also can sway families toward private day cares, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/head-start-preschool-child-care-teacher-pay-256a66cc4df8a331a2d0badcba7f72e8\">Head Start programs\u003c/a> and other alternatives offering full-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools hosting transitional kindergarten offer child care before or after instruction, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your school doesn’t offer those wraparound child care services at the beginning or end of school days, then staying in child care may be the only option parents have,” said Deborah Stipek, a former dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, who has advocated for equitable access to early childhood education in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States including Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey and Washington have provided early learning options similar to transitional kindergarten, and there is evidence of the program’s benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where the programs are taught by educators with the same credential requirements as kindergarten teachers, a five-year study found their students \u003ca href=\"https://www.air.org/project/study-californias-transitional-kindergarten-program\">entered kindergarten\u003c/a> with stronger mathematics and literacy skills. In Michigan, where the transitional kindergarten program is not offered statewide, the programs have been linked to \u003ca href=\"https://edworkingpapers.com/ai24-920\">increases in third-grade test scores\u003c/a> in math and English. A California study, however, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/assessing-transitional-kindergartens-impact-on-elementary-school-trajectories/\">no such test score increase\u003c/a> by third or fourth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids are getting the opportunity to become familiar with the school environment before they start kindergarten,” said Anna Shapiro, a policy researcher at RAND who has studied early childhood program effectiveness for about a decade and analyzed the TK program in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another benefit to transitional kindergarten is that it’s free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Maldonado, who has seven children and works at a deli in Los Angeles, sends her 4-year-old daughter, Audrey, to transitional kindergarten at Para Los Niños Charter Elementary School. Her daughter likes it so much, Maldonado said she would happily pay even if it wasn’t free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program includes after-school care, so Audrey remains at the school from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Audrey is learning to read and can count to 35, and asks to stay at the school longer when her parents arrive well before pickup time, her mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado only wishes she had heard about the program sooner for her other children. She said she was sold on the school after visiting and speaking to the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Academically, they have to learn everything they’re taught. But if the atmosphere is good, that’s a combination that will keep kids happy. As a result, this girl loves going to school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this school year, California’s transitional kindergarten was open only to 4-year-old children who turn 5 by early April. The cutoff will widen to include more kids this fall in a graduated expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ethan’s parents, the emphasis on play-based learning at his day care center, run by KinderCare, was an important factor in their decision to keep him there, in addition to the all-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are families who choose to stay with us because we have full-time, full-year care,” said Margot Gould, senior manager of government relations for KinderCare, which operates in 40 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan’s father, Scott Quinn, recalls thinking, “How bad can it be?” when they opted out of transitional kindergarten. But he has been discouraged to see Ethan — one of the oldest kids in his day care class — pick up the behavior of kids who are several years younger than him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In retrospect, it would have been better to send him to school to be around kids his age and older,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11983016,news_11979071,news_11982934\"]I-Ting Quinn said she also has feelings of regret as she sees Ethan outgrow some of his previous needs, including a midday nap. The couple considered enrolling him in TK midway through the school year, but ultimately decided it would cause too much stress in managing the logistics of their work schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising Ethan was her first exposure to the fragmented landscape of early education, and she said she wishes she started considering the options even before she was pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s easier said than done,” she said. The Quinns are planning to move to Connecticut this year to be closer to family and are looking into kindergarten options for Ethan. “We are for sure enrolling him in a public kindergarten. Not only is he ready, but we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/about/standards-for-working-with-outside-groups/\">standards\u003c/a> for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/discover/Supporting-AP\">AP.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1238,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":30},"modified":1713640853,"excerpt":"Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, but some parents say the programs don't work for them.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Investments in public preschool have helped many parents through a child care crisis, but some parents say the programs don't work for them.","title":"Despite California's Investments in Public Preschool, Child Care Challenges Continue | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Despite California's Investments in Public Preschool, Child Care Challenges Continue","datePublished":"2024-04-20T12:16:29-07:00","dateModified":"2024-04-20T12:20:53-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"despite-californias-investments-in-public-preschool-challenges-around-child-care-continue","status":"publish","nprByline":"Cheyanne Mumphrey\u003cbr>Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","sticky":false,"showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983586/despite-californias-investments-in-public-preschool-challenges-around-child-care-continue","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A year before I-Ting Quinn’s son was old enough for kindergarten, she and her husband had the option to enroll him in “transitional kindergarten,” a program offered for free by California elementary schools for some 4-year-olds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, they kept their son, Ethan, in a private day care center in Concord, Contra Costa County, at a cost of $400 a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitional kindergarten’s academic emphasis was appealing, but Ethan would have been in a half-day program, and options for after-school child care were limited. And for two parents with hectic work schedules in the hospitality industry, there was the convenience of having Ethan and his younger brother at the same day care, with a single stop for morning drop-off and evening pickup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ethan is navigating changes at home with a new younger brother and then possibly a new school where he is the youngest,” Quinn said. “That doesn’t even include the concerns around drop-off and pickups, including transportation to and from his class to after-school care at a different location. It is just a lot to consider.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investments that California and other states have made in public preschool have helped many parents through a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/daycare-child-care-democrats-congress-2919cf689423f62d90e28f7f40de2f39\">child care crisis\u003c/a>, in which quality options for early learners are often scarce and unaffordable. But many parents say the programs don’t work for their families. Even when Pre–K lasts the whole school day, working parents struggle to find child care before 9 a.m. and after 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No state has a more ambitious plan for universal preschool than California, which plans to extend eligibility for transitional kindergarten to all 4-year-olds by fall 2025 as part of a $2.7 billion, four-year expansion. The idea is to provide a two-year kindergarten program to prepare children earlier for the rigors of elementary school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enrollment in the optional program has grown more slowly than projected. Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, had estimated about 120,000 students would enroll last year; however, the average daily attendance was around 91,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through December of this school year, the average daily attendance was about 125,000 students, said Sara Cortez, a policy analyst for the California Legislative Analyst’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, some families \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/kindergarten-school-registration-homeschool-f6a0c3a8f97f8d6cf616f201f68c04fe\">no longer see the same value\u003c/a> in traditional kindergarten. Some are just as happy with programs that don’t have an academic component. School days requiring midday pickups also can sway families toward private day cares, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/head-start-preschool-child-care-teacher-pay-256a66cc4df8a331a2d0badcba7f72e8\">Head Start programs\u003c/a> and other alternatives offering full-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some schools hosting transitional kindergarten offer child care before or after instruction, but not all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your school doesn’t offer those wraparound child care services at the beginning or end of school days, then staying in child care may be the only option parents have,” said Deborah Stipek, a former dean of the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, who has advocated for equitable access to early childhood education in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>States including Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey and Washington have provided early learning options similar to transitional kindergarten, and there is evidence of the program’s benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, where the programs are taught by educators with the same credential requirements as kindergarten teachers, a five-year study found their students \u003ca href=\"https://www.air.org/project/study-californias-transitional-kindergarten-program\">entered kindergarten\u003c/a> with stronger mathematics and literacy skills. In Michigan, where the transitional kindergarten program is not offered statewide, the programs have been linked to \u003ca href=\"https://edworkingpapers.com/ai24-920\">increases in third-grade test scores\u003c/a> in math and English. A California study, however, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/publication/assessing-transitional-kindergartens-impact-on-elementary-school-trajectories/\">no such test score increase\u003c/a> by third or fourth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Kids are getting the opportunity to become familiar with the school environment before they start kindergarten,” said Anna Shapiro, a policy researcher at RAND who has studied early childhood program effectiveness for about a decade and analyzed the TK program in Michigan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another benefit to transitional kindergarten is that it’s free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Maldonado, who has seven children and works at a deli in Los Angeles, sends her 4-year-old daughter, Audrey, to transitional kindergarten at Para Los Niños Charter Elementary School. Her daughter likes it so much, Maldonado said she would happily pay even if it wasn’t free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program includes after-school care, so Audrey remains at the school from 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. Audrey is learning to read and can count to 35, and asks to stay at the school longer when her parents arrive well before pickup time, her mother said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado only wishes she had heard about the program sooner for her other children. She said she was sold on the school after visiting and speaking to the teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Academically, they have to learn everything they’re taught. But if the atmosphere is good, that’s a combination that will keep kids happy. As a result, this girl loves going to school,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of this school year, California’s transitional kindergarten was open only to 4-year-old children who turn 5 by early April. The cutoff will widen to include more kids this fall in a graduated expansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Ethan’s parents, the emphasis on play-based learning at his day care center, run by KinderCare, was an important factor in their decision to keep him there, in addition to the all-day care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are families who choose to stay with us because we have full-time, full-year care,” said Margot Gould, senior manager of government relations for KinderCare, which operates in 40 states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ethan’s father, Scott Quinn, recalls thinking, “How bad can it be?” when they opted out of transitional kindergarten. But he has been discouraged to see Ethan — one of the oldest kids in his day care class — pick up the behavior of kids who are several years younger than him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In retrospect, it would have been better to send him to school to be around kids his age and older,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11983016,news_11979071,news_11982934"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>I-Ting Quinn said she also has feelings of regret as she sees Ethan outgrow some of his previous needs, including a midday nap. The couple considered enrolling him in TK midway through the school year, but ultimately decided it would cause too much stress in managing the logistics of their work schedules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising Ethan was her first exposure to the fragmented landscape of early education, and she said she wishes she started considering the options even before she was pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s easier said than done,” she said. The Quinns are planning to move to Connecticut this year to be closer to family and are looking into kindergarten options for Ethan. “We are for sure enrolling him in a public kindergarten. Not only is he ready, but we are.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Associated Press’ education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/about/standards-for-working-with-outside-groups/\">standards\u003c/a> for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at \u003ca href=\"https://www.ap.org/discover/Supporting-AP\">AP.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983586/despite-californias-investments-in-public-preschool-challenges-around-child-care-continue","authors":["byline_news_11983586"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20754","news_22570","news_20013","news_22350","news_17763"],"featImg":"news_11983592","label":"news"},"news_11967796":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11967796","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11967796","score":null,"sort":[1700479463000]},"parent":0,"labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"blocks":[],"publishDate":1700479463,"format":"standard","title":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage","headTitle":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage | KQED","content":"\u003cp>The Biden administration wants to significantly raise the salaries of Head Start teachers to reverse the staffing shortage that it says is threatening the future of the early education program for children from lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a proposed rule change \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-25038.pdf\">published Monday on the Federal Register (PDF)\u003c/a>, Head Start teachers would have to be paid as much as preschool teachers in their local school district. That could mean an average increase of $10,000 per year for more than 27,500 Head Start staffers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, our skilled and passionate Head Start workforce has been underpaid, which has impacted the program’s ability to retain and recruit qualified teachers,” Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is necessary to ensure young children get reliable care and equal access to high-quality early education, advocates told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head Start has been plagued by understaffing and high turnover rates since classrooms reopened after the pandemic shutdowns. A survey conducted by the National Head Start Association last month found that 15% of classrooms were closed due to high vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members who responded to the survey cited low compensation as the main reason Head Start teachers — most of whom have at least a bachelor’s degree — were leaving for better-paying jobs at public schools or other sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national average salary for Head Start teachers was $39,096 per year, while the average pay for preschool teachers in a public school setting was $53,200 and $65,210 for kindergarten teachers, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Xavier Becerra, secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\"]‘For too long, our skilled and passionate Head Start workforce has been underpaid, which has impacted the program’s ability to retain and recruit qualified teachers.’[/pullquote]The pay gap goes as far as 25% in Stanislaus County in the Central Valley, according to a comparison of school district and Head Start salaries conducted by the county’s Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a stark difference, and that’s without going into the fact that Head Start teachers work year-round while K–12 teachers get winter, spring and summer breaks,” said Tony Jordan, executive director of the office’s Child & Family Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu Yee Children’s Services, the largest provider of Head Start programs in San Francisco, has a 17% vacancy rate and a low pool of substitute teachers, even though salaries range between $28 to $40 per hour thanks to additional funding from the city, said the center’s executive director, Monica Walters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With those wages, we’re still not attracting the people that we need, and they’re not staying because of all the other costs of living [in San Francisco],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low pay, combined with the physically and emotionally demanding work, is driving high turnover rates, which affects the quality of care for young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know that when kids don’t have the same teacher day after day or year over year, they don’t know what to expect,” Walters said. “Parents don’t know who they’re going to be talking to in the classroom, and that really affects outcomes for the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of staffing is leading to longer wait lists. This year, California received funding to cover nearly 95,000 slots, but only about 85,000 children are enrolled, according to Melanee Cottrill, executive director of Head Start California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides poor pay, she said many families don’t meet the income requirements to enroll in Head Start because the federal poverty guidelines are “unrealistically low” in California. For example, a family of four must have an annual income of $30,000 to qualify for Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11965328,news_11964236,news_11959904\"]That’s why many early education programs combine funding from the California State Preschool Program, which provides subsidized early care and education for 3- to 5-year-old children. The income limit to qualify for the program — $96,000 for families of four — is higher than Head Start’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher reimbursement rates from the state program have helped programs like Izzi Early Education, the largest Head Start provider in San Mateo County, to increase their teachers’ salaries to about $38 per hour — which is about $5 less than what kindergarten teachers in the region earn hourly, said the program’s director, Angel Barrios.\u003cbr>\nShe applauds the proposed rule change that would put Head Start teachers on the same pay scale as elementary school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is our goal. We’re getting very close to it, but we’re not there yet,” Barrios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that since the pandemic, some of her teachers have moved as far away as Sacramento — and still commute back for work — because they couldn’t afford to live in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To develop a pipeline of new teachers, her program offered Head Start parents and those interested in entering the profession a stipend to take child development classes and obtain permits to work in classrooms. Apprentices who want to continue their education receive free tuition from local colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, 37 people have received their entry-level credentials, allowing Izzi to fill vacancies and open all of its classrooms this year, Barrios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be creative, innovative and … one of the ways that we were able to do that was to create this pipeline and include parents in our program,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules also include important changes to improve mental health support and benefits such as paid leave, as well as support services for families enrolled in Head Start. The public has 60 days to submit comments on the proposed rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","stats":{"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"hasAudio":false,"hasPolis":false,"wordCount":1022,"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"paragraphCount":25},"modified":1700522597,"excerpt":"Plagued by high turnover rates and understaffing, the Head Start early child education program for lower-income families may get a boost from the Biden administration.","headData":{"twImgId":"","twTitle":"","ogTitle":"","ogImgId":"","twDescription":"","description":"Plagued by high turnover rates and understaffing, the Head Start early child education program for lower-income families may get a boost from the Biden administration.","title":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage | KQED","ogDescription":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage","datePublished":"2023-11-20T03:24:23-08:00","dateModified":"2023-11-20T15:23:17-08:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feds-plan-higher-pay-for-head-start-teachers-amid-severe-staff-shortage","status":"publish","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11967796/feds-plan-higher-pay-for-head-start-teachers-amid-severe-staff-shortage","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The Biden administration wants to significantly raise the salaries of Head Start teachers to reverse the staffing shortage that it says is threatening the future of the early education program for children from lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a proposed rule change \u003ca href=\"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-25038.pdf\">published Monday on the Federal Register (PDF)\u003c/a>, Head Start teachers would have to be paid as much as preschool teachers in their local school district. That could mean an average increase of $10,000 per year for more than 27,500 Head Start staffers in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For too long, our skilled and passionate Head Start workforce has been underpaid, which has impacted the program’s ability to retain and recruit qualified teachers,” Xavier Becerra, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The change is necessary to ensure young children get reliable care and equal access to high-quality early education, advocates told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Head Start has been plagued by understaffing and high turnover rates since classrooms reopened after the pandemic shutdowns. A survey conducted by the National Head Start Association last month found that 15% of classrooms were closed due to high vacancy rates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members who responded to the survey cited low compensation as the main reason Head Start teachers — most of whom have at least a bachelor’s degree — were leaving for better-paying jobs at public schools or other sectors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The national average salary for Head Start teachers was $39,096 per year, while the average pay for preschool teachers in a public school setting was $53,200 and $65,210 for kindergarten teachers, according to U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘For too long, our skilled and passionate Head Start workforce has been underpaid, which has impacted the program’s ability to retain and recruit qualified teachers.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Xavier Becerra, secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The pay gap goes as far as 25% in Stanislaus County in the Central Valley, according to a comparison of school district and Head Start salaries conducted by the county’s Office of Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a stark difference, and that’s without going into the fact that Head Start teachers work year-round while K–12 teachers get winter, spring and summer breaks,” said Tony Jordan, executive director of the office’s Child & Family Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wu Yee Children’s Services, the largest provider of Head Start programs in San Francisco, has a 17% vacancy rate and a low pool of substitute teachers, even though salaries range between $28 to $40 per hour thanks to additional funding from the city, said the center’s executive director, Monica Walters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With those wages, we’re still not attracting the people that we need, and they’re not staying because of all the other costs of living [in San Francisco],” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The low pay, combined with the physically and emotionally demanding work, is driving high turnover rates, which affects the quality of care for young children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know that when kids don’t have the same teacher day after day or year over year, they don’t know what to expect,” Walters said. “Parents don’t know who they’re going to be talking to in the classroom, and that really affects outcomes for the kids.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of staffing is leading to longer wait lists. This year, California received funding to cover nearly 95,000 slots, but only about 85,000 children are enrolled, according to Melanee Cottrill, executive director of Head Start California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides poor pay, she said many families don’t meet the income requirements to enroll in Head Start because the federal poverty guidelines are “unrealistically low” in California. For example, a family of four must have an annual income of $30,000 to qualify for Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11965328,news_11964236,news_11959904"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That’s why many early education programs combine funding from the California State Preschool Program, which provides subsidized early care and education for 3- to 5-year-old children. The income limit to qualify for the program — $96,000 for families of four — is higher than Head Start’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Higher reimbursement rates from the state program have helped programs like Izzi Early Education, the largest Head Start provider in San Mateo County, to increase their teachers’ salaries to about $38 per hour — which is about $5 less than what kindergarten teachers in the region earn hourly, said the program’s director, Angel Barrios.\u003cbr>\nShe applauds the proposed rule change that would put Head Start teachers on the same pay scale as elementary school teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is our goal. We’re getting very close to it, but we’re not there yet,” Barrios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that since the pandemic, some of her teachers have moved as far away as Sacramento — and still commute back for work — because they couldn’t afford to live in San Mateo County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To develop a pipeline of new teachers, her program offered Head Start parents and those interested in entering the profession a stipend to take child development classes and obtain permits to work in classrooms. Apprentices who want to continue their education receive free tuition from local colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, 37 people have received their entry-level credentials, allowing Izzi to fill vacancies and open all of its classrooms this year, Barrios said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to be creative, innovative and … one of the ways that we were able to do that was to create this pipeline and include parents in our program,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed rules also include important changes to improve mental health support and benefits such as paid leave, as well as support services for families enrolled in Head Start. 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It was a big moment for a labor movement largely led by immigrants and women of color — two groups whose domestic work has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/\">historically been undervalued and excluded \u003c/a>from labor protection laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since child care in the United States is largely privatized, home-based providers are considered self-employed small business owners. But those who serve lower-income families have long argued they should be classified as public employees since their salaries depend on reimbursements from the state. In California, two-thirds of families who receive child care subsidies send their kids to home-based daycares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, these providers complained \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/the-early-educator-workforce/early-educator-pay-economic-insecurity-across-the-states/\">they were paid so little that they \u003cem>themselves\u003c/em> qualify for public assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It spoke pretty loudly as to what folks really thought of child care providers, that we were just folks that they could use and not necessarily think about our well-being and our future,” Harvey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harvey, her involvement started with a knock on her door not long after she started her daycare. A union rep came in the middle of the children’s nap time and pitched unionizing as a strategy to improve pay and gain benefits. She said she didn’t hesitate to sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nancy Harvey, child care provider, West Oakland\"]‘We have set them aside long enough and we can’t do that.’[/pullquote]Organizing isn’t easy for home-based workers because they work independently, but Harvey said she felt a duty to speak up for her industry because many providers were in the same situation she was in, but were too busy to effect change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two decades of organizing — a lot of it done during nap time — before Child Care Providers United \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/09/30/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-allowing-child-care-providers-the-right-to-unionize/\">won the right in 2019 to collectively bargain\u003c/a>. The union represents 40,000 home-based child care providers. It is a partnership between two chapters of the Service Employees International Union locals and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as Harvey and other providers got ready to negotiate their first contract with the state, the pandemic hit, greatly intensifying their economic insecurity. As essential workers, many home-based providers kept their doors open, but still struggled to pay their bills. They said they were seeing lower revenues due to enrollment declines and higher costs due to inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11963691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a megaphone in front of a group of people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Harvey speaks during a rally to bring attention to a gas leak Felton Institute employees say went unaddressed for more than a year outside of Felton’s Sunshine Community Center in San Francisco’s Mission District on Aug. 10, 2023. Felton Institute is a nonprofit serving children and families in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was at that point that people really recognized the fact that, hey, this industry is important,” Harvey recalled. “We have set them aside long enough and we can’t do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union reached its first contract in 2021, securing $100 million for health care, plus funding for training and pandemic relief. \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/many-california-family-child-care-providers-will-now-be-better-able-to-afford-health-care/\">In one survey\u003c/a>, many home-based providers reported delaying or not getting needed health care because they couldn’t afford out-of-pocket costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaining the health care fund was bittersweet for Patricia Moran, a daycare owner in San José. She said a fellow provider and member of the negotiation team was diagnosed with lung cancer during the talks and didn’t live long enough to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew providers who were going to Mexico, crossing the border for cheaper medical care and going so fast and coming back so fast they would sometimes get into car accidents,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran, Harvey and dozens of providers bargained for the second contract this past year. They spent nights and weekends negotiating and held union demonstrations, including rallies outside the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11963692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands by a window and looks at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Moran stands in her child care facility in San José on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember I slept like two hours because, in my daycare, some parents are bringing children at 5 o’clock in the morning,” Moran said. “I was like, OK, I’m going to sleep. Maybe, maybe not. No, I’m going to stay awake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizing paid off. Last month, the state finalized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961256/newsom-signs-bills-boosting-child-care-for-struggling-californians-and-providers\">a landmark $2 billion deal \u003c/a>to give them their largest pay raise to date and launch the nation’s first retirement fund for unionized child care workers. The $80 million fund made California the first of \u003ca href=\"https://www.clasp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.3.2023_Unionizing-Home-Based-Providers-to-Address-the-Child-Care-Crisis.pdf\">11 states with home-based child care worker unions (PDF) \u003c/a>to offer this benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Patricia Moran, child care provider, San José\"]‘I knew providers who were going to Mexico, crossing the border for cheaper medical care and going so fast and coming back so fast they would sometimes get into car accidents.’[/pullquote]Overall, the push to unionize child care workers has had more success in some states than others. Seven other states, for example, had granted that right to home-based child care providers before backing out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.clasp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.3.2023_Unionizing-Home-Based-Providers-to-Address-the-Child-Care-Crisis.pdf\">according to the Center for Law and Social Policy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped that in California, a record number of women in the state Legislature made \u003ca href=\"https://womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2023-03-30-ca-legislative-women%E2%80%99s-caucus-announces-2023-priority-bill-package\">child care funding a priority in the 2023–24 budget year. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner, an East Bay Democrat who chairs the Legislative Women’s Caucus, said funding was urgently needed because many child care programs permanently closed after the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we just saw this collapse that affected not only families, obviously, and the little kids that really deserve good child care, but also affected California’s employers and our economy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the biggest victory is that they got the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-subsidized-child-care-providers-are-overdue-for-pay-raise/\">fundamentally change the way it pays\u003c/a> providers of subsidized child care programs so that they’ll get closer to earning a fair wage, whether they’re in the union or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, the benefit will extend to larger state-funded child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They fought for the entire system … which is incredibly tremendous for all of us,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of the advocacy group EveryChild California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee said she hopes better pay will encourage more private daycares to serve families who qualify for child care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Affordable Child Care' tag='child-care']“It’s really a huge step forward in terms of equity when you think about who our workforce is,” said Brandy Jones Lawrence, a senior analyst at the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a huge step forward in our commitment to systemic reform,” she added\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said these gains were long overdue. She’s ecstatic about the changes and hopes child care workers in other states will follow in her union’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 61 years old, she said she feels more secure about retiring in a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think of a retirement plan as a pot of money that’s going to help you survive. And if you don’t have that, then how are you going to survive?” she said. “I’m glad that the state of California heard our cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A union of 40,000 home-based child care providers, largely led by immigrants and women of color, secured a 20% raise and new benefits, a win for labor rights.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1726004827,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1396},"headData":{"title":"How a California Child Care Workers' Union Fought for Living Wages — and Won | KQED","description":"A union of 40,000 home-based child care providers, largely led by immigrants and women of color, secured a 20% raise and new benefits, a win for labor rights.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"How a California Child Care Workers' Union Fought for Living Wages — and Won","datePublished":"2023-10-13T07:00:19-07:00","dateModified":"2024-09-10T14:47:07-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"source":"Early Childhood Education and Care","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/early-childhood-education-and-care","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/aecc4a92-1c62-4ae1-b927-b0960100d28d/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"templateType":"standard","featuredImageType":"standard","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11964236/how-a-california-child-care-workers-union-fought-for-living-wages-and-won","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When Nancy Harvey opened a daycare out of her West Oakland home nearly two decades ago, she wanted to give kids in her neighborhood a high-quality preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was up for the challenge, but what she wasn’t prepared for was the low pay and lack of benefits: two things she took for granted when she worked in marketing and taught in private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A retirement plan was essential for anyone that worked a job and I couldn’t understand how this very valuable industry did not have that,” Harvey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As workers across occupations walked off the job during this \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11963717/amid-kaiser-strike-a-look-at-the-biggest-union-walkouts-in-california-recently\">remarkable year of strikes\u003c/a>, a union representing 40,000 home-based child care providers like Harvey approved a landmark deal, which included a roughly 20% pay increase and unprecedented benefits. It was a big moment for a labor movement largely led by immigrants and women of color — two groups whose domestic work has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/black-womens-labor-market-history-reveals-deep-seated-race-and-gender-discrimination/\">historically been undervalued and excluded \u003c/a>from labor protection laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since child care in the United States is largely privatized, home-based providers are considered self-employed small business owners. But those who serve lower-income families have long argued they should be classified as public employees since their salaries depend on reimbursements from the state. In California, two-thirds of families who receive child care subsidies send their kids to home-based daycares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, these providers complained \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/the-early-educator-workforce/early-educator-pay-economic-insecurity-across-the-states/\">they were paid so little that they \u003cem>themselves\u003c/em> qualify for public assistance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It spoke pretty loudly as to what folks really thought of child care providers, that we were just folks that they could use and not necessarily think about our well-being and our future,” Harvey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Harvey, her involvement started with a knock on her door not long after she started her daycare. A union rep came in the middle of the children’s nap time and pitched unionizing as a strategy to improve pay and gain benefits. She said she didn’t hesitate to sign up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We have set them aside long enough and we can’t do that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nancy Harvey, child care provider, West Oakland","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Organizing isn’t easy for home-based workers because they work independently, but Harvey said she felt a duty to speak up for her industry because many providers were in the same situation she was in, but were too busy to effect change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took two decades of organizing — a lot of it done during nap time — before Child Care Providers United \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/09/30/governor-newsom-signs-legislation-allowing-child-care-providers-the-right-to-unionize/\">won the right in 2019 to collectively bargain\u003c/a>. The union represents 40,000 home-based child care providers. It is a partnership between two chapters of the Service Employees International Union locals and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But just as Harvey and other providers got ready to negotiate their first contract with the state, the pandemic hit, greatly intensifying their economic insecurity. As essential workers, many home-based providers kept their doors open, but still struggled to pay their bills. They said they were seeing lower revenues due to enrollment declines and higher costs due to inflation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11963691\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a megaphone in front of a group of people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/230810-FeltonInstituteRally-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Harvey speaks during a rally to bring attention to a gas leak Felton Institute employees say went unaddressed for more than a year outside of Felton’s Sunshine Community Center in San Francisco’s Mission District on Aug. 10, 2023. Felton Institute is a nonprofit serving children and families in the Bay Area. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was at that point that people really recognized the fact that, hey, this industry is important,” Harvey recalled. “We have set them aside long enough and we can’t do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union reached its first contract in 2021, securing $100 million for health care, plus funding for training and pandemic relief. \u003ca href=\"https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/many-california-family-child-care-providers-will-now-be-better-able-to-afford-health-care/\">In one survey\u003c/a>, many home-based providers reported delaying or not getting needed health care because they couldn’t afford out-of-pocket costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaining the health care fund was bittersweet for Patricia Moran, a daycare owner in San José. She said a fellow provider and member of the negotiation team was diagnosed with lung cancer during the talks and didn’t live long enough to see it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew providers who were going to Mexico, crossing the border for cheaper medical care and going so fast and coming back so fast they would sometimes get into car accidents,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Moran, Harvey and dozens of providers bargained for the second contract this past year. They spent nights and weekends negotiating and held union demonstrations, including rallies outside the Capitol and the governor’s mansion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11963692\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11963692\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands by a window and looks at the camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/10/231002-ChildCareLaborMovement-003-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patricia Moran stands in her child care facility in San José on Oct. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I remember I slept like two hours because, in my daycare, some parents are bringing children at 5 o’clock in the morning,” Moran said. “I was like, OK, I’m going to sleep. Maybe, maybe not. No, I’m going to stay awake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organizing paid off. Last month, the state finalized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961256/newsom-signs-bills-boosting-child-care-for-struggling-californians-and-providers\">a landmark $2 billion deal \u003c/a>to give them their largest pay raise to date and launch the nation’s first retirement fund for unionized child care workers. The $80 million fund made California the first of \u003ca href=\"https://www.clasp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.3.2023_Unionizing-Home-Based-Providers-to-Address-the-Child-Care-Crisis.pdf\">11 states with home-based child care worker unions (PDF) \u003c/a>to offer this benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I knew providers who were going to Mexico, crossing the border for cheaper medical care and going so fast and coming back so fast they would sometimes get into car accidents.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Patricia Moran, child care provider, San José","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Overall, the push to unionize child care workers has had more success in some states than others. Seven other states, for example, had granted that right to home-based child care providers before backing out, \u003ca href=\"https://www.clasp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/4.3.2023_Unionizing-Home-Based-Providers-to-Address-the-Child-Care-Crisis.pdf\">according to the Center for Law and Social Policy (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It helped that in California, a record number of women in the state Legislature made \u003ca href=\"https://womenscaucus.legislature.ca.gov/news/2023-03-30-ca-legislative-women%E2%80%99s-caucus-announces-2023-priority-bill-package\">child care funding a priority in the 2023–24 budget year. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Nancy Skinner, an East Bay Democrat who chairs the Legislative Women’s Caucus, said funding was urgently needed because many child care programs permanently closed after the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we just saw this collapse that affected not only families, obviously, and the little kids that really deserve good child care, but also affected California’s employers and our economy,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But perhaps the biggest victory is that they got the state to \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-subsidized-child-care-providers-are-overdue-for-pay-raise/\">fundamentally change the way it pays\u003c/a> providers of subsidized child care programs so that they’ll get closer to earning a fair wage, whether they’re in the union or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means, the benefit will extend to larger state-funded child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They fought for the entire system … which is incredibly tremendous for all of us,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of the advocacy group EveryChild California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee said she hopes better pay will encourage more private daycares to serve families who qualify for child care subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Affordable Child Care ","tag":"child-care"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s really a huge step forward in terms of equity when you think about who our workforce is,” said Brandy Jones Lawrence, a senior analyst at the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a huge step forward in our commitment to systemic reform,” she added\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey said these gains were long overdue. She’s ecstatic about the changes and hopes child care workers in other states will follow in her union’s footsteps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 61 years old, she said she feels more secure about retiring in a few years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We think of a retirement plan as a pot of money that’s going to help you survive. And if you don’t have that, then how are you going to survive?” she said. “I’m glad that the state of California heard our cry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11964236/how-a-california-child-care-workers-union-fought-for-living-wages-and-won","authors":["11829"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_31795","news_457","news_8"],"tags":["news_25647","news_18538","news_32887","news_20754","news_25966","news_32102","news_18543","news_20851","news_2318"],"featImg":"news_11963695","label":"source_news_11964236"},"news_11962162":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11962162","meta":{"index":"posts_1716263798","site":"news","id":"11962162","score":null,"sort":[1695639649000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"bay-area-child-care-center-at-risk-of-closure-could-strain-working-families","title":"A Child Care Center's Possible Closure Shows Dire Shortage in Marin County","publishDate":1695639649,"format":"standard","headTitle":"A Child Care Center’s Possible Closure Shows Dire Shortage in Marin County | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As a social worker connecting residents to public assistance programs in Marin County, Amy Gramajo frequently helps families apply for free or low-cost child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those families typically qualify for subsidized child care, but they wind up waiting for months, or even years before they land an open spot at a child care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Amy Gramajo, social worker, Marin County\"]‘I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here.’[/pullquote]The shortage of affordable child care in one of the most expensive counties in the Bay Area is weighing heavily on Gramajo. A center where she sends her 5- and 8-year-old daughters for child care is at risk of closing after losing its lease last month, putting dozens of working parents like her on edge about whether they’ll be able to find alternative care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For five decades, the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center has played a vital role in the lives of hundreds of lower-income families who rely on its early education and after-school programs. It’s one of just a few subsidized child care centers in Marin. Parents and students cherish the close-knit community and the fact that it’s located in a county park at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, giving children ample space to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re surrounded by all these amazing trees and hiking trails, just being so close to nature is such an important part of any human’s development,” said Vesta Torres, 29, one of several teachers who started coming to the center as babies and who now work there to raise the next generation of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For single or working parents with school-age kids, the center crucially fills in the gap during the afternoon hours or periods when school is out. Eva Polony said the center helped her get through the pandemic by providing a place for her teenage sons to go. The center also supervised her sons’ online learning while she was at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of children on mats watch an adult in front of them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Hanna teaches a yoga class for children at the Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are here for the essential workers and then some,” she said. “They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the center’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Eva Polony, resident, Marin County\"]‘They are here for the essential workers and then some. They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.’[/pullquote]Its aging buildings have structural issues that led the Ross Valley School District, which owns the campus, to terminate the center’s lease on Aug. 31. The school board president, Shelley Hamilton, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mxmguLyVw&t=1457s\">at a recent hearing\u003c/a> that there were no immediate plans to evict the nonprofit organization that runs the center, but by operating without a lease, the group was exposing itself to increased safety and liability risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center was holding out hope that the county Office of Education would buy the property and lease it back to the center. The office scrapped its plan, however, after a building inspection report concluded it might cost at least $14 million to bring the property up to current safety standards — an amount that John Carroll, the superintendent of Marin County schools, said his office doesn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Tomsky, the center’s executive director, disputes the findings of the report. She said inspectors were holding the buildings to more stringent standards reserved for schools, rather than for a licensed child care program like the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961416 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair interacts with two children in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Director Heidi Tomsky works with children on an art project at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center. The center is one of the few to offer low-cost, subsidized child care in Marin County and is facing eviction after losing its lease on Aug. 31. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under state law, child care centers undergo random inspections by the Department of Social Services’ Community Care Licensing division to ensure they meet all health and safety requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the buildings need renovations. I’m not quite sure or convinced yet that they’re unsafe to the standard that some people believe they are,” Tomsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that closing the center would create a ripple effect for the parents who send their kids there, many of whom are gardeners, house cleaners and restaurant and grocery store workers in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Heidi Tomsky, executive director, Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center\"]‘Losing child care means likely that a family will lose their job, which will impact their housing, which will impact their food, which will impact their … whole entire economic security.’[/pullquote]“Losing child care means likely that a family will lose their job, which will impact their housing, which will impact their food, which will impact their … whole entire economic security,” Tomsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County is already one of the most expensive places to live in California, so the cost of child care is just as high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaysca.org/realcost/\">A recent report by the United Ways of California\u003c/a> found that nearly a quarter of households in Marin don’t earn enough to meet basic needs, including housing, food, transportation and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, the average price for preschool in Marin has gone up nearly 40% to $2,315 a month, and up to $2,600 per month for infant care, according to Aideen Gaidmore, executive director of the Marin Child Care Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of child care is why more than 900 children are on a waitlist her agency maintains for subsidized child care, Gaidmore said. That means they qualify for low-cost or free child care, but there’s no guarantee they’ll get it because of insufficient funding, staffing or facilities to serve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A building and play area with children and adults in it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at the Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s Center in the Deer Park area of Fairfax. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are families who are eligible, but will never be pulled off that list for whatever reason,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased state funding and federal pandemic aid for child care have helped her agency to serve hundreds more families in the last two years, Gaidmore said, but the number of available slots hasn’t kept pace with demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Aideen Gaidmore, executive director, Marin Child Care Council\"]‘There are families who are eligible, but will never be pulled off that list for whatever reason.’[/pullquote]There have been attempts locally to boost access to early education for Marin’s underserved children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">to raise the local sales tax by a \u003c/a>quarter-cent to raise about $12 million per year for the cause received 63% of votes, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. (A local taxpayer group \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">argued in voters’ pamphlets \u003c/a>that if the measure passed “many will flock to Marin for free child care.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left with limited resources, local nonprofits such as the Marin Community Foundation instead focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincf.org/buck-family-fund-grants/economic-opportunity/access-to-quality-child-care\">funding $1.5 million each year on financial assistance, particularly for single, working parents and training early educators\u003c/a> in subsidized programs. The philanthropic organization will phase out the program so it can develop and implement a strategic plan to expand access to child care in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More on Bay Area Child Care' tag='child-care']Gaidmore said her agency used \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/21/fact-sheet-american-rescue-plan-funds-provided-a-critical-lifeline-to-200000-child-care-providers-helping-millions-of-families-to-work/\">federal pandemic aid\u003c/a> to help family child care homes get properly licensed to increase the kind of facilities set up for infant care. It’s also administering a guaranteed income program for 21 entry-level early educators, giving them $8,000 in stipends per year over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to focus on teachers who were just coming into the field and how we could encourage them to stay there,” Gaidmore said. “We know that they’re the lowest paid. So it made more sense to bring that in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the nearly 90 families enrolled at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center, Gaidmore said she’s trying to secure funding to minimize potential child care disruption for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is really supporting those families in any way we can, and obviously the teachers and staff of the center,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"One of few subsidized options in Marin County, the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center faces closure from lease loss, worsening the child care shortage in this Bay Area county.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1721121769,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":31,"wordCount":1548},"headData":{"title":"A Child Care Center's Possible Closure Shows Dire Shortage in Marin County | KQED","description":"One of few subsidized options in Marin County, the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center faces closure from lease loss, worsening the child care shortage in this Bay Area county.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"A Child Care Center's Possible Closure Shows Dire Shortage in Marin County","datePublished":"2023-09-25T04:00:49-07:00","dateModified":"2024-07-16T02:22:49-07:00","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"True","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/77424ce6-e841-444f-9033-b08100e40de8/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11962162/bay-area-child-care-center-at-risk-of-closure-could-strain-working-families","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As a social worker connecting residents to public assistance programs in Marin County, Amy Gramajo frequently helps families apply for free or low-cost child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those families typically qualify for subsidized child care, but they wind up waiting for months, or even years before they land an open spot at a child care program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Amy Gramajo, social worker, Marin County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The shortage of affordable child care in one of the most expensive counties in the Bay Area is weighing heavily on Gramajo. A center where she sends her 5- and 8-year-old daughters for child care is at risk of closing after losing its lease last month, putting dozens of working parents like her on edge about whether they’ll be able to find alternative care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have any close family nearby to help me. If the center closes I don’t think I can maintain a full-time job or continue paying for an apartment here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For five decades, the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center has played a vital role in the lives of hundreds of lower-income families who rely on its early education and after-school programs. It’s one of just a few subsidized child care centers in Marin. Parents and students cherish the close-knit community and the fact that it’s located in a county park at the foot of Mount Tamalpais, giving children ample space to play outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re surrounded by all these amazing trees and hiking trails, just being so close to nature is such an important part of any human’s development,” said Vesta Torres, 29, one of several teachers who started coming to the center as babies and who now work there to raise the next generation of kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For single or working parents with school-age kids, the center crucially fills in the gap during the afternoon hours or periods when school is out. Eva Polony said the center helped her get through the pandemic by providing a place for her teenage sons to go. The center also supervised her sons’ online learning while she was at work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961419 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of children on mats watch an adult in front of them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-020-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Hanna teaches a yoga class for children at the Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s Center. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are here for the essential workers and then some,” she said. “They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the center’s future is uncertain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They are here for the essential workers and then some. They’re just the foundation for families to keep working and to be able to feel secure. You know your kids’ needs are gonna be met.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Eva Polony, resident, Marin County","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Its aging buildings have structural issues that led the Ross Valley School District, which owns the campus, to terminate the center’s lease on Aug. 31. The school board president, Shelley Hamilton, said \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2mxmguLyVw&t=1457s\">at a recent hearing\u003c/a> that there were no immediate plans to evict the nonprofit organization that runs the center, but by operating without a lease, the group was exposing itself to increased safety and liability risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center was holding out hope that the county Office of Education would buy the property and lease it back to the center. The office scrapped its plan, however, after a building inspection report concluded it might cost at least $14 million to bring the property up to current safety standards — an amount that John Carroll, the superintendent of Marin County schools, said his office doesn’t have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heidi Tomsky, the center’s executive director, disputes the findings of the report. She said inspectors were holding the buildings to more stringent standards reserved for schools, rather than for a licensed child care program like the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11961416 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with long hair interacts with two children in an outdoor setting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-005-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Director Heidi Tomsky works with children on an art project at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center. The center is one of the few to offer low-cost, subsidized child care in Marin County and is facing eviction after losing its lease on Aug. 31. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under state law, child care centers undergo random inspections by the Department of Social Services’ Community Care Licensing division to ensure they meet all health and safety requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that the buildings need renovations. I’m not quite sure or convinced yet that they’re unsafe to the standard that some people believe they are,” Tomsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that closing the center would create a ripple effect for the parents who send their kids there, many of whom are gardeners, house cleaners and restaurant and grocery store workers in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Losing child care means likely that a family will lose their job, which will impact their housing, which will impact their food, which will impact their … whole entire economic security.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Heidi Tomsky, executive director, Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Losing child care means likely that a family will lose their job, which will impact their housing, which will impact their food, which will impact their … whole entire economic security,” Tomsky said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marin County is already one of the most expensive places to live in California, so the cost of child care is just as high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://unitedwaysca.org/realcost/\">A recent report by the United Ways of California\u003c/a> found that nearly a quarter of households in Marin don’t earn enough to meet basic needs, including housing, food, transportation and child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last five years, the average price for preschool in Marin has gone up nearly 40% to $2,315 a month, and up to $2,600 per month for infant care, according to Aideen Gaidmore, executive director of the Marin Child Care Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The high cost of child care is why more than 900 children are on a waitlist her agency maintains for subsidized child care, Gaidmore said. That means they qualify for low-cost or free child care, but there’s no guarantee they’ll get it because of insufficient funding, staffing or facilities to serve them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11961417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11961417\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A building and play area with children and adults in it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230913-ChildCareCenterEviction-011-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children play at the Fairfax San Anselmo Children’s Center in the Deer Park area of Fairfax. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There are families who are eligible, but will never be pulled off that list for whatever reason,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increased state funding and federal pandemic aid for child care have helped her agency to serve hundreds more families in the last two years, Gaidmore said, but the number of available slots hasn’t kept pace with demand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There are families who are eligible, but will never be pulled off that list for whatever reason.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Aideen Gaidmore, executive director, Marin Child Care Council","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>There have been attempts locally to boost access to early education for Marin’s underserved children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, a proposal \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">to raise the local sales tax by a \u003c/a>quarter-cent to raise about $12 million per year for the cause received 63% of votes, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed to pass. (A local taxpayer group \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincounty.org/depts/rv/election-info/past-elections/page-data/tabs-collection/past2016/nov-8/measure/measurea\">argued in voters’ pamphlets \u003c/a>that if the measure passed “many will flock to Marin for free child care.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Left with limited resources, local nonprofits such as the Marin Community Foundation instead focused on \u003ca href=\"https://www.marincf.org/buck-family-fund-grants/economic-opportunity/access-to-quality-child-care\">funding $1.5 million each year on financial assistance, particularly for single, working parents and training early educators\u003c/a> in subsidized programs. The philanthropic organization will phase out the program so it can develop and implement a strategic plan to expand access to child care in Marin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Bay Area Child Care ","tag":"child-care"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Gaidmore said her agency used \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/10/21/fact-sheet-american-rescue-plan-funds-provided-a-critical-lifeline-to-200000-child-care-providers-helping-millions-of-families-to-work/\">federal pandemic aid\u003c/a> to help family child care homes get properly licensed to increase the kind of facilities set up for infant care. It’s also administering a guaranteed income program for 21 entry-level early educators, giving them $8,000 in stipends per year over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to focus on teachers who were just coming into the field and how we could encourage them to stay there,” Gaidmore said. “We know that they’re the lowest paid. So it made more sense to bring that in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the nearly 90 families enrolled at the Fairfax-San Anselmo Children’s Center, Gaidmore said she’s trying to secure funding to minimize potential child care disruption for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our concern is really supporting those families in any way we can, and obviously the teachers and staff of the center,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11962162/bay-area-child-care-center-at-risk-of-closure-could-strain-working-families","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8"],"tags":["news_25647","news_20754","news_32768","news_32102","news_27626","news_3729"],"featImg":"news_11961420","label":"news"}},"programsReducer":{"possible":{"id":"possible","title":"Possible","info":"Possible is hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman and writer Aria Finger. 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