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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. 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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. 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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_11983016":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11983016","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11983016","score":null,"sort":[1713265239000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-preschools-wrestle-to-comply-with-states-tightened-suspension-rules","title":"California Preschools Wrestle to Comply With State’s Tightened Suspension Rules","publishDate":1713265239,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Preschools Wrestle to Comply With State’s Tightened Suspension Rules | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Like many babies born around the time of the COVID-19 shutdowns, 4-year-old Cole grew up watching \u003cem>Cocomelon\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Bluey\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The popular kids shows kept him entertained while his mom, Grace McPherson, helped his older sister with distance learning. However, too much screen time and social isolation took a toll on Cole’s development. His mom said he was “pretty much nonverbal” when he was 3 years old.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Grace McPherson, mother of 4-year-old Cole\"]‘They said that he’s not ready for preschool, and I was just shocked.’[/pullquote]So last fall, McPherson enrolled her son in a preschool in the Bay Area town of Oakley to help him catch up. The first day went smoothly. But on the second day, not long after dropping him off, the school called McPherson to pick up Cole because he refused to sit at circle time and was crying inconsolably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said that he’s not ready for preschool, and I was just shocked,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preschool director suggested coming back when Cole was more ready to follow directions, McPherson said. But she had made up her mind: she’d rather forfeit the $400 deposit for his tuition than return to a preschool that couldn’t support her son through a tantrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like they were just passing the buck,” she said. “And it’s just, ‘Here you go, here’s your child back. Figure out something else.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school never told McPherson they suspended her son when they asked her to take him home. Still, their experience would be considered a suspension under a state law designed to limit exclusionary discipline in early childhood education.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nina Buthee, executive director, EveryChild California\"]‘The intention is good, but in actuality, there just aren’t the resources there to help support these preschool programs to do it in a really effective way.’[/pullquote]Suspending or expelling children from preschool for hitting, biting and other challenging behavior\u003ca href=\"https://cep.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-09/exclusionary-discipline-093022-1.pdf\"> is surprisingly common\u003c/a>. It happens way more often to Black children, boys, and children with learning differences than others, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-discipline-school-climate-report.pdf\">federal civil rights data. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California recently toughened rules around exclusionary discipline at preschools and child care centers that receive state funding, but implementing them has been tough for providers who are still dealing with stressed-out teachers, kids with fewer social skills and other long-lasting effects of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intention is good, but in actuality, there just aren’t the resources there to help support these preschool programs to do it in a really effective way,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of EveryChild California, an association of publicly funded early education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What it means to exclude a child’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is among 24 states with laws limiting preschool suspension and expulsion, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cep.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/state-discipline-120523_0.pdf\">the Children’s Equity Project\u003c/a> at Arizona State University, because studies have found that children who are removed from their classroom or sent home from school as a form of discipline tend to repeat the pattern in later years and become disengaged from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not acceptable,” said Adonai Mack, a founding member of Black Men for Education Equity, which advocated for the law. “There should be no reason why a young child in their earliest development is excluded from an educational opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace McPherson spends time with her son Cole, 3, at Los Medanos College Child Study Center in Pittsburg on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2017 law requires state-funded preschools to pursue and document ways they tried to support children with challenging behavior before resorting to expulsion. Another law passed in 2022 prohibits expulsion \u003cem>and\u003c/em> suspension and applies to both preschools and state-subsidized child care programs for infants and toddlers.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Adonai Mack, founding member, Black Men for Education Equity\"]‘There should be no reason why a young child in their earliest development is excluded from an educational opportunity.’[/pullquote]\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/mb2308.asp\">The rules \u003c/a>specifically prohibit teachers from sending children to another room or home in the middle of the day because of their behavior. That would be considered suspension. Teachers also can’t encourage a parent to unenroll from a program, and suspension or expulsion can only be used as a last resort when serious safety concerns exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California law outlines one of the clearest definitions of suspension and expulsion, said Walter Gilliam, executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute at the University of Nebraska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam said teachers often don’t realize they’re suspending or expelling a child when they advise parents to find another school that’s “a better fit” or when they repeatedly ask parents to pick up their child early, creating an inconvenience that could lead parents to look elsewhere for more reliable child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re not very clear about what it means to exclude a child, then we run the risk of local implementers thinking that an exclusion means one thing and policymakers thinking that it means a completely different thing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Jorgenson, known to students as Teacher Dani, cheers for students as they jump during a preschool class at Los Medanos College Child Study Center in Pittsburg on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To ensure accountability, California law requires teachers to document ways they try to support children with challenging behaviors, such as setting behavior goals along with their parents and referring them to mental health consultants. Parents have the right to appeal a suspension or expulsion to state authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help make the policy work, lawmakers increased funding for preschool and child care centers that provide early childhood mental health consultation services — such as marriage and family therapists, social workers and child psychologists — for kids, their families or teachers.[aside postID=news_11979071 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240309-EARLY-START-DEVELOPMENTAL-DELAYS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg']But Buthee said the law is placing demands on preschools and child care centers that are stretched thin by staffing shortages. Teachers sometimes get caught between providing one-on-one support for an ill-behaved child and ensuring there are enough adults in the room for the rest of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requiring teachers to keep records of how they dealt with a child acting up “feels like a gotcha policy” and makes a bigger deal out of what might be an age-appropriate behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members are also telling her they have a hard time finding early childhood mental health consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To actually find an individual in their community who is able to come in for an hour or a couple hours a week on a pretty short-term basis is very challenging,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Building trust in a child’s life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Linda Brault with the education research organization WestEd has seen this, too. She trains preschool teachers to work with children with challenging behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the stress level of the provider, and the fact that so many people haven’t gotten time to go to a training because they don’t have substitutes, or they’re working two jobs or whatever … I think we really have to address that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Jorgenson, known to students as Teacher Dani, works with Cole, 3, in the garden during a preschool class at Los Medanos College Child Study Center in Pittsburg on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The issue is crucial because the more stressed a teacher is, the more likely the teacher is to discipline a child. When teachers do have enough professional support and training to respond to a misbehaving child, Brault said, they tend to stay in their job and have fewer problems in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is documentation and data that says children who are expelled and suspended in early childhood have a tendency to continue that pattern, so we really want to interrupt that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPherson eventually enrolled her son Cole at the Child Study Center, a preschool on the campus of Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, which is also a training ground for early educators. For the last decade, the school has been working hard to prevent suspensions and expulsions by meeting children where they’re at emotionally and developmentally.[aside postID=news_11968835 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231108-Alameda-Black-Maternal-Health-021-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg']Cole’s teacher Danielle Jorgensen said when he first got there, he had trouble communicating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would try to tell us something. We couldn’t understand him. So he would fall to the ground, kick and scream,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she would get on the floor, take deep breaths and try to understand him. If you discipline a child while their brain is not able to think and process, she said, you’re not helping the child learn how to self-calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the things that we work on here is teaching them that it’s OK to have emotions and how to deal with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorgensen can take the time to work individually with Cole because there were enough interns in the room to watch over the other children, thanks to the preschool’s unique relationship with the college. She said she also tries to build relationships with parents and their kids to foster trust because once children feel safe, their brains are more open to learning.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Grace McPherson, mother to 4-year-old Cole\"]‘It really starts with the attuned, calm, trusted caregiver, teacher, parent in the child’s life. That really sets the tone for the relationships that the kids are going to have.’[/pullquote]McPherson said in just a few months, her son’s vocabulary exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His confidence, his ability to make friends, just overall his growth was extraordinary,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting her son reliable child care allowed McPherson to go back to school. She enrolled at Los Medanos to get a certification to teach middle school. She also received a grant to lower Cole’s preschool tuition, and in turn, she had to take a child development class and volunteer as a helper at the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the class gave her a greater appreciation for conscious discipline, a series of strategies used at the Child Study Center to teach social-emotional skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really starts with the attuned, calm, trusted caregiver, teacher, parent in the child’s life. That really sets the tone for the relationships that the kids are going to have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information about California’s laws and how to prevent suspension and expulsion in early child care and education programs, check out \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://preventingchildcareexpulsionca.org/\">\u003cem>https://preventingchildcareexpulsionca.org/\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":" New state rules make it harder for child care and preschool programs that receive state funding to suspend or expel children. Providers say the rules are placing more demands on a workforce still coping with post-pandemic challenges. 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However, too much screen time and social isolation took a toll on Cole’s development. His mom said he was “pretty much nonverbal” when he was 3 years old.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘They said that he’s not ready for preschool, and I was just shocked.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Grace McPherson, mother of 4-year-old Cole","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So last fall, McPherson enrolled her son in a preschool in the Bay Area town of Oakley to help him catch up. The first day went smoothly. But on the second day, not long after dropping him off, the school called McPherson to pick up Cole because he refused to sit at circle time and was crying inconsolably.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said that he’s not ready for preschool, and I was just shocked,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The preschool director suggested coming back when Cole was more ready to follow directions, McPherson said. But she had made up her mind: she’d rather forfeit the $400 deposit for his tuition than return to a preschool that couldn’t support her son through a tantrum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like they were just passing the buck,” she said. “And it’s just, ‘Here you go, here’s your child back. Figure out something else.’”\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 school never told McPherson they suspended her son when they asked her to take him home. Still, their experience would be considered a suspension under a state law designed to limit exclusionary discipline in early childhood education.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The intention is good, but in actuality, there just aren’t the resources there to help support these preschool programs to do it in a really effective way.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nina Buthee, executive director, EveryChild California","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Suspending or expelling children from preschool for hitting, biting and other challenging behavior\u003ca href=\"https://cep.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2022-09/exclusionary-discipline-093022-1.pdf\"> is surprisingly common\u003c/a>. It happens way more often to Black children, boys, and children with learning differences than others, according to the most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/docs/crdc-discipline-school-climate-report.pdf\">federal civil rights data. \u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California recently toughened rules around exclusionary discipline at preschools and child care centers that receive state funding, but implementing them has been tough for providers who are still dealing with stressed-out teachers, kids with fewer social skills and other long-lasting effects of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The intention is good, but in actuality, there just aren’t the resources there to help support these preschool programs to do it in a really effective way,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of EveryChild California, an association of publicly funded early education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘What it means to exclude a child’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is among 24 states with laws limiting preschool suspension and expulsion, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cep.asu.edu/sites/default/files/2023-12/state-discipline-120523_0.pdf\">the Children’s Equity Project\u003c/a> at Arizona State University, because studies have found that children who are removed from their classroom or sent home from school as a form of discipline tend to repeat the pattern in later years and become disengaged from school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not acceptable,” said Adonai Mack, a founding member of Black Men for Education Equity, which advocated for the law. “There should be no reason why a young child in their earliest development is excluded from an educational opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976825\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976825\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace McPherson spends time with her son Cole, 3, at Los Medanos College Child Study Center in Pittsburg on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 2017 law requires state-funded preschools to pursue and document ways they tried to support children with challenging behavior before resorting to expulsion. Another law passed in 2022 prohibits expulsion \u003cem>and\u003c/em> suspension and applies to both preschools and state-subsidized child care programs for infants and toddlers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘There should be no reason why a young child in their earliest development is excluded from an educational opportunity.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Adonai Mack, founding member, Black Men for Education Equity","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/cd/ci/mb2308.asp\">The rules \u003c/a>specifically prohibit teachers from sending children to another room or home in the middle of the day because of their behavior. That would be considered suspension. Teachers also can’t encourage a parent to unenroll from a program, and suspension or expulsion can only be used as a last resort when serious safety concerns exist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California law outlines one of the clearest definitions of suspension and expulsion, said Walter Gilliam, executive director of the Buffett Early Childhood Institute at the University of Nebraska.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gilliam said teachers often don’t realize they’re suspending or expelling a child when they advise parents to find another school that’s “a better fit” or when they repeatedly ask parents to pick up their child early, creating an inconvenience that could lead parents to look elsewhere for more reliable child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we’re not very clear about what it means to exclude a child, then we run the risk of local implementers thinking that an exclusion means one thing and policymakers thinking that it means a completely different thing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-35-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Jorgenson, known to students as Teacher Dani, cheers for students as they jump during a preschool class at Los Medanos College Child Study Center in Pittsburg on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To ensure accountability, California law requires teachers to document ways they try to support children with challenging behaviors, such as setting behavior goals along with their parents and referring them to mental health consultants. Parents have the right to appeal a suspension or expulsion to state authorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help make the policy work, lawmakers increased funding for preschool and child care centers that provide early childhood mental health consultation services — such as marriage and family therapists, social workers and child psychologists — for kids, their families or teachers.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11979071","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240309-EARLY-START-DEVELOPMENTAL-DELAYS-MD-02-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>But Buthee said the law is placing demands on preschools and child care centers that are stretched thin by staffing shortages. Teachers sometimes get caught between providing one-on-one support for an ill-behaved child and ensuring there are enough adults in the room for the rest of the class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Requiring teachers to keep records of how they dealt with a child acting up “feels like a gotcha policy” and makes a bigger deal out of what might be an age-appropriate behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members are also telling her they have a hard time finding early childhood mental health consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To actually find an individual in their community who is able to come in for an hour or a couple hours a week on a pretty short-term basis is very challenging,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Building trust in a child’s life\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Linda Brault with the education research organization WestEd has seen this, too. She trains preschool teachers to work with children with challenging behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now, the stress level of the provider, and the fact that so many people haven’t gotten time to go to a training because they don’t have substitutes, or they’re working two jobs or whatever … I think we really have to address that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976828\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976828\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240215-PRESCHOOLSUSPENSION-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Danielle Jorgenson, known to students as Teacher Dani, works with Cole, 3, in the garden during a preschool class at Los Medanos College Child Study Center in Pittsburg on Feb. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The issue is crucial because the more stressed a teacher is, the more likely the teacher is to discipline a child. When teachers do have enough professional support and training to respond to a misbehaving child, Brault said, they tend to stay in their job and have fewer problems in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is documentation and data that says children who are expelled and suspended in early childhood have a tendency to continue that pattern, so we really want to interrupt that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McPherson eventually enrolled her son Cole at the Child Study Center, a preschool on the campus of Los Medanos College in Pittsburg, which is also a training ground for early educators. For the last decade, the school has been working hard to prevent suspensions and expulsions by meeting children where they’re at emotionally and developmentally.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11968835","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/12/20231108-Alameda-Black-Maternal-Health-021-JY-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Cole’s teacher Danielle Jorgensen said when he first got there, he had trouble communicating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would try to tell us something. We couldn’t understand him. So he would fall to the ground, kick and scream,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she would get on the floor, take deep breaths and try to understand him. If you discipline a child while their brain is not able to think and process, she said, you’re not helping the child learn how to self-calm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of the things that we work on here is teaching them that it’s OK to have emotions and how to deal with them,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorgensen can take the time to work individually with Cole because there were enough interns in the room to watch over the other children, thanks to the preschool’s unique relationship with the college. She said she also tries to build relationships with parents and their kids to foster trust because once children feel safe, their brains are more open to learning.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It really starts with the attuned, calm, trusted caregiver, teacher, parent in the child’s life. That really sets the tone for the relationships that the kids are going to have.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Grace McPherson, mother to 4-year-old Cole","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>McPherson said in just a few months, her son’s vocabulary exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His confidence, his ability to make friends, just overall his growth was extraordinary,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting her son reliable child care allowed McPherson to go back to school. She enrolled at Los Medanos to get a certification to teach middle school. She also received a grant to lower Cole’s preschool tuition, and in turn, she had to take a child development class and volunteer as a helper at the preschool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the class gave her a greater appreciation for conscious discipline, a series of strategies used at the Child Study Center to teach social-emotional skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really starts with the attuned, calm, trusted caregiver, teacher, parent in the child’s life. That really sets the tone for the relationships that the kids are going to have,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>For more information about California’s laws and how to prevent suspension and expulsion in early child care and education programs, check out \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://preventingchildcareexpulsionca.org/\">\u003cem>https://preventingchildcareexpulsionca.org/\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\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/11983016/california-preschools-wrestle-to-comply-with-states-tightened-suspension-rules","authors":["11829"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_22570","news_32102","news_20013","news_27626","news_17763"],"featImg":"news_11976827","label":"news_72"},"news_11967796":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11967796","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11967796","score":null,"sort":[1700479463000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"feds-plan-higher-pay-for-head-start-teachers-amid-severe-staff-shortage","title":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage","publishDate":1700479463,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"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","blocks":[],"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.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700522597,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1022},"headData":{"title":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage | KQED","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.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Feds Plan Higher Pay for Head Start Teachers Amid Severe Staff Shortage","datePublished":"2023-11-20T11:24:23.000Z","dateModified":"2023-11-20T23:23:17.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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"}}},"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. The public has 60 days to submit comments on the proposed rules.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11967796/feds-plan-higher-pay-for-head-start-teachers-amid-severe-staff-shortage","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_31795","news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_20754","news_32102","news_29460","news_27626","news_33388","news_22350","news_17763"],"featImg":"news_11967810","label":"news"},"news_11961256":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961256","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961256","score":null,"sort":[1694775659000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newsom-signs-bills-boosting-child-care-for-struggling-californians-and-providers","title":"Newsom Signs Legislation Investing $2 Billion in Publicly Funded Child Care","publishDate":1694775659,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Newsom Signs Legislation Investing $2 Billion in Publicly Funded Child Care | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a series of early education bills that will boost California’s publicly funded child care and preschool programs right as federal pandemic relief for child care providers runs out at the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is budgeting about $2 billion to cover a roughly 20% pay raise for providers who look after the children of parents with lower income — their first salary bump in five years — and extend a few pandemic-era policies that helped them keep their doors open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By signing these bills, Newsom also signed off on establishing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957166/california-close-to-launch-80-billion-dollar-child-care-worker-retirement-plan\">the nation’s first retirement fund for the union representing more than 40,000 family child care providers\u003c/a> and continuing to pay for their health care and professional training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Nina Buthee, executive director, EveryChild California\"]‘My hope — and the intention of a lot of these rate increases — is to be able to give a living wage to teachers and those individuals working directly with young children.’[/pullquote]“This is a pretty substantial investment acknowledging that early educator workers are underpaid, that they do need more funding, that they are a vital part of the workforce,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of the advocacy group EveryChild California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also extending a few pandemic-era policies that were initially funded by the federal government, including lowering, and in many cases eliminating, “family fees” that families with lower-income must pay to receive state-subsidized child care; and reimbursing providers based on enrollment rather than attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, delinquent fees will be forgiven. For years, advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947683/subsidized-child-care-fees-could-be-going-up-in-july-heres-what-to-know\">have criticized these fees as inequitable and unaffordable\u003c/a>. Families had to pay up to 25% of their income, or as much as $600 a month, per child. Advocates worried that if the state reintroduces the fees after waiving them during the pandemic, it would cause families to drop out of state-funded child care programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These changes will help stabilize California’s beleaguered child care industry over the next 18 months, Buthee said, until broader reform takes hold to solve the shortage of child care in California. When the $24 billion in federal aid for the child care industry in all 50 states ends, an estimated 13,500 child care programs might close in California and child care could be disrupted for more than 84,000 children across the state, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://tcf-ccs-map.netlify.app/assets/factsheets/Child%20Care%20State%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20California.pdf\">report (PDF)\u003c/a> by The Century Foundation. California hasn’t spent all the federal aid, and is issuing another round of stipends ranging from $500 to $3,000 before the end of November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its contract agreement with the union Child Care Providers United, the state has set a timeline for overhauling its reimbursement system so subsidized child care providers are more fairly paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These providers have long complained that the state was underpaying them by basing voucher rates on what parents were paying for child care at least five years ago. As a result, the payments failed to reflect the current costs of living and didn’t adequately cover the true cost of providing child care.[aside postID=\"news_11947683,news_11957166,news_11955866\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Zonia Sanchez, a family child care provider from Palmdale who helped negotiate the new contract, said she looks forward to collaborating with the state to develop the new payment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful to the legislature and governor for listening to us, a woman of color-led workforce, and working with us to enact this historic contract,” she said in a statement. “Truly transforming California’s child care system is the goal of this contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate increases negotiated by the union will extend to all state-funded child care programs, Buthee said, adding that she hopes the changes will incentivize programs that might have hesitated to serve families who qualify for subsidies and enroll them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — and the intention of a lot of these rate increases — is to be able to give a living wage to teachers and those individuals working directly with young children,” Buthee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The series of early education bills will boost California’s publicly funded child care and preschool programs right as federal pandemic relief for child care providers expires at the end of September.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1695682754,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":700},"headData":{"title":"Newsom Signs Legislation Investing $2 Billion in Publicly Funded Child Care | KQED","description":"The series of early education bills will boost California’s publicly funded child care and preschool programs right as federal pandemic relief for child care providers expires at the end of September.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Newsom Signs Legislation Investing $2 Billion in Publicly Funded Child Care","datePublished":"2023-09-15T11:00:59.000Z","dateModified":"2023-09-25T22:59:14.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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"}}},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11961256/newsom-signs-bills-boosting-child-care-for-struggling-californians-and-providers","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a series of early education bills that will boost California’s publicly funded child care and preschool programs right as federal pandemic relief for child care providers runs out at the end of September.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is budgeting about $2 billion to cover a roughly 20% pay raise for providers who look after the children of parents with lower income — their first salary bump in five years — and extend a few pandemic-era policies that helped them keep their doors open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By signing these bills, Newsom also signed off on establishing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957166/california-close-to-launch-80-billion-dollar-child-care-worker-retirement-plan\">the nation’s first retirement fund for the union representing more than 40,000 family child care providers\u003c/a> and continuing to pay for their health care and professional training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘My hope — and the intention of a lot of these rate increases — is to be able to give a living wage to teachers and those individuals working directly with young children.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Nina Buthee, executive director, EveryChild California","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is a pretty substantial investment acknowledging that early educator workers are underpaid, that they do need more funding, that they are a vital part of the workforce,” said Nina Buthee, executive director of the advocacy group EveryChild California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is also extending a few pandemic-era policies that were initially funded by the federal government, including lowering, and in many cases eliminating, “family fees” that families with lower-income must pay to receive state-subsidized child care; and reimbursing providers based on enrollment rather than attendance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additionally, delinquent fees will be forgiven. For years, advocates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947683/subsidized-child-care-fees-could-be-going-up-in-july-heres-what-to-know\">have criticized these fees as inequitable and unaffordable\u003c/a>. Families had to pay up to 25% of their income, or as much as $600 a month, per child. Advocates worried that if the state reintroduces the fees after waiving them during the pandemic, it would cause families to drop out of state-funded child care programs.\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>These changes will help stabilize California’s beleaguered child care industry over the next 18 months, Buthee said, until broader reform takes hold to solve the shortage of child care in California. When the $24 billion in federal aid for the child care industry in all 50 states ends, an estimated 13,500 child care programs might close in California and child care could be disrupted for more than 84,000 children across the state, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://tcf-ccs-map.netlify.app/assets/factsheets/Child%20Care%20State%20Fact%20Sheet%20-%20California.pdf\">report (PDF)\u003c/a> by The Century Foundation. California hasn’t spent all the federal aid, and is issuing another round of stipends ranging from $500 to $3,000 before the end of November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of its contract agreement with the union Child Care Providers United, the state has set a timeline for overhauling its reimbursement system so subsidized child care providers are more fairly paid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These providers have long complained that the state was underpaying them by basing voucher rates on what parents were paying for child care at least five years ago. As a result, the payments failed to reflect the current costs of living and didn’t adequately cover the true cost of providing child care.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11947683,news_11957166,news_11955866","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Zonia Sanchez, a family child care provider from Palmdale who helped negotiate the new contract, said she looks forward to collaborating with the state to develop the new payment system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are grateful to the legislature and governor for listening to us, a woman of color-led workforce, and working with us to enact this historic contract,” she said in a statement. “Truly transforming California’s child care system is the goal of this contract.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate increases negotiated by the union will extend to all state-funded child care programs, Buthee said, adding that she hopes the changes will incentivize programs that might have hesitated to serve families who qualify for subsidies and enroll them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hope — and the intention of a lot of these rate increases — is to be able to give a living wage to teachers and those individuals working directly with young children,” Buthee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11961256/newsom-signs-bills-boosting-child-care-for-struggling-californians-and-providers","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32887","news_25966","news_32102","news_29460","news_27626","news_30957","news_17763"],"featImg":"news_11961271","label":"news"},"news_11950806":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11950806","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11950806","score":null,"sort":[1685139379000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"1-in-4-california-child-care-centers-has-unsafe-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water-first-mandatory-testing-finds","title":"1 in 4 California Child Care Centers That Responded to First State Testing Requirement Had Unsafe Lead Levels in Drinking Water","publishDate":1685139379,"format":"standard","headTitle":"1 in 4 California Child Care Centers That Responded to First State Testing Requirement Had Unsafe Lead Levels in Drinking Water | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>For the first time in state history, child care centers in California had to test their drinking water for possible lead contamination, and preliminary results show about a quarter of those that reported results contained unsafe levels of lead, according to data recently reported by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 6,900 centers whose results have been disclosed, almost 1,700 had lead levels that exceeded 5 parts per billion (ppb) — the state’s allowable limit for child care centers. Of those, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">13 had lead levels above 500 ppb\u003c/a>, including four in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Petite Academy in San Diego reported the highest levels of lead — 11,300 ppb — of any child care center in the state. That’s more than 2,200 times higher than what California allows, and comes close to some of the highest levels detected \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353852/#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20the,23%2C%20100%20%CE%BCg%2FL.\">during the catastrophic water crisis in Flint, Michigan\u003c/a>, nearly a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has since gotten rid of two drinking fountains with the highest lead samples and found its remaining water sources safe after retesting them, said Joanna Cline, spokesperson for the center.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Susan Little, senior advocate, Environmental Working Group\"]‘What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state.’[/pullquote]The results indicate that the young children at those centers have been drinking lead-contaminated water for years, which is particularly worrisome because their bodies can absorb significantly more lead —\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health#:~:text=Young%20children%20are%20particularly%20vulnerable%20to%20lead%20poisoning%20because%20they,adults%20from%20a%20given%20source.\"> up to five times as much\u003c/a> — than those of adults, said Susan Little, a senior advocate with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that analyzed the test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state,” Little told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a toxic metal found throughout the environment that can enter drinking water from corroded pipes, and has been found to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/children.htm\">harm children’s nervous systems and brain development\u003c/a> if ingested in highly concentrated amounts. Exposure to lead — even at low levels — has been linked to developmental delays and cognition and behavioral problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those reasons, the \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/1/e20161493/52600/Prevention-of-Childhood-Lead-Toxicity?_ga=2.241873154.1051551116.1684909652-1546072125.1684909652\">American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016 recommended\u003c/a> that lead concentrations in drinking water at schools not exceed 1 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EWG’s study stems from a state law passed in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2370\">AB 2370\u003c/a>, that required all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year, and then retest the water every five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law, the state would order any facilities with water exceeding the limit of 5 ppb to reduce lead levels to as close to zero as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards for child care centers are higher than those at elementary, middle and high schools, which don’t have to test every tap and are not required to replace fixtures or notify parents unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Chris Holden, who authored AB 2370, introduced a bill this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning childcare and school lead testing standards we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months past the deadline, hundreds have still not reported results, according to EWG’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11950822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing 13 child care centers in California with the highest lead levels.\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-800x503.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1020x642.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1536x967.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said she expects the number of facilities with unhealthy lead exposure to grow as more test results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears this is the tip of the iceberg,” she said, noting that licensed family child care homes in California, which outnumber child care centers, are not even required to test their water for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little advises parents who send their children to family child care homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who send their children to a center \u003ca href=\"https://static.ewg.org/upload/pdf/California_statewide_childcare_testing_results_as_of_April_23_2023_-_Statewide_results_as_of_4.27.23.pdf?_gl=1*1wkx0xy*_gcl_au*MTQyNzQ2MDgzNy4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga*MTEwNTE3ODc1OS4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga_CS21GC49KT*MTY4NDkwOTY0OS4yLjEuMTY4NDkxMTY2MS4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.69131411.367003707.1684906398-1105178759.1684906398\">can look up lead-level results (PDF)\u003c/a> in EWG’s database and, if the results from that facility are missing, press them to test their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the center has been found to have an unsafe level of lead in its water, Little encourages parents to ask providers for details on what they have done to lower those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumiko Inui, director of ABC Preschool in San Francisco, whose lead levels ranked fourth highest in the study, said that result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been shut off. But she said other fixtures at the Japanese-English bilingual preschool were below 5 ppb, and that the school uses a filter in its kitchen sink and supplies bottled water to students.[aside postID=news_11926006 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-15-at-8.16.23-PM-1200x750-1-1020x638.png']“I’m disappointed to get this kind of attention,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Griswold, principal of St. Catherine of Siena in Martinez, which ranked fifth in the statewide study, said high levels of lead were found in water from a sink in the director’s office that similarly hadn’t been used for several years. As a precaution, she said, students now get their drinking water from dispensers instead of fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Kidango Linda Vista in San José, which had the 11th highest lead levels, said the center replaced problematic fixtures and supply lines and retested the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to report that each classroom at Linda Vista now has alternate fixtures that dispense water containing zero lead particles,” the spokesperson, Mario Fierro-Hernandez, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Teele, the director of the Bunker Hill Parents Participation Nursery School in San Mateo, which ranked 13th in lead levels, said an outdoor faucet that was only used for washing hands was the problematic fixture. The school has since replaced the faucet, retested the water and has been cleared, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The findings stem from a 2018 law requiring all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1685483676,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":1084},"headData":{"title":"1 in 4 California Child Care Centers That Responded to First State Testing Requirement Had Unsafe Lead Levels in Drinking Water | KQED","description":"The findings stem from a 2018 law requiring all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"1 in 4 California Child Care Centers That Responded to First State Testing Requirement Had Unsafe Lead Levels in Drinking Water","datePublished":"2023-05-26T22:16:19.000Z","dateModified":"2023-05-30T21:54:36.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11950806/1-in-4-california-child-care-centers-has-unsafe-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water-first-mandatory-testing-finds","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For the first time in state history, child care centers in California had to test their drinking water for possible lead contamination, and preliminary results show about a quarter of those that reported results contained unsafe levels of lead, according to data recently reported by state regulators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of the nearly 6,900 centers whose results have been disclosed, almost 1,700 had lead levels that exceeded 5 parts per billion (ppb) — the state’s allowable limit for child care centers. Of those, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">13 had lead levels above 500 ppb\u003c/a>, including four in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La Petite Academy in San Diego reported the highest levels of lead — 11,300 ppb — of any child care center in the state. That’s more than 2,200 times higher than what California allows, and comes close to some of the highest levels detected \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5353852/#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20the,23%2C%20100%20%CE%BCg%2FL.\">during the catastrophic water crisis in Flint, Michigan\u003c/a>, nearly a decade ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The facility has since gotten rid of two drinking fountains with the highest lead samples and found its remaining water sources safe after retesting them, said Joanna Cline, spokesperson for the center.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Susan Little, senior advocate, Environmental Working Group","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The results indicate that the young children at those centers have been drinking lead-contaminated water for years, which is particularly worrisome because their bodies can absorb significantly more lead —\u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/lead-poisoning-and-health#:~:text=Young%20children%20are%20particularly%20vulnerable%20to%20lead%20poisoning%20because%20they,adults%20from%20a%20given%20source.\"> up to five times as much\u003c/a> — than those of adults, said Susan Little, a senior advocate with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news-release/2023/05/1-4-california-child-care-centers-found-have-alarming-levels\">Environmental Working Group\u003c/a>, the nonprofit that analyzed the test results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What’s so tragic about this is that this testing is not only an indicator of existing problems, but it also is an indicator of what could have been going on for decades in the drinking water in these centers throughout the state,” Little told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lead is a toxic metal found throughout the environment that can enter drinking water from corroded pipes, and has been found to \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/prevention/children.htm\">harm children’s nervous systems and brain development\u003c/a> if ingested in highly concentrated amounts. Exposure to lead — even at low levels — has been linked to developmental delays and cognition and behavioral problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those reasons, the \u003ca href=\"https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/138/1/e20161493/52600/Prevention-of-Childhood-Lead-Toxicity?_ga=2.241873154.1051551116.1684909652-1546072125.1684909652\">American Academy of Pediatrics in 2016 recommended\u003c/a> that lead concentrations in drinking water at schools not exceed 1 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>EWG’s study stems from a state law passed in 2018, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2370\">AB 2370\u003c/a>, that required all licensed child care centers located in buildings constructed before 2010 to test every faucet for lead contamination by January of this year, and then retest the water every five years.\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 the law, the state would order any facilities with water exceeding the limit of 5 ppb to reduce lead levels to as close to zero as possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The standards for child care centers are higher than those at elementary, middle and high schools, which don’t have to test every tap and are not required to replace fixtures or notify parents unless lead levels exceed 15 ppb.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Chris Holden, who authored AB 2370, introduced a bill this year that would require schools to meet the same standards as child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By aligning childcare and school lead testing standards we can protect children from the toxic effects of lead,” Holden said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care centers had a two-year window to have their drinking water tested for lead contamination. But so far, months past the deadline, hundreds have still not reported results, according to EWG’s analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11950822\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png\" alt=\"A bar chart showing 13 child care centers in California with the highest lead levels.\" width=\"1640\" height=\"1032\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5.png 1640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-800x503.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1020x642.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-160x101.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/8UZvG-california-child-care-centers-that-reported-lead-levels-above-500-ppb-5-1536x967.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1640px) 100vw, 1640px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little said she expects the number of facilities with unhealthy lead exposure to grow as more test results come in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It appears this is the tip of the iceberg,” she said, noting that licensed family child care homes in California, which outnumber child care centers, are not even required to test their water for lead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Little advises parents who send their children to family child care homes to encourage their providers to install newer faucets and lead-removing filters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents who send their children to a center \u003ca href=\"https://static.ewg.org/upload/pdf/California_statewide_childcare_testing_results_as_of_April_23_2023_-_Statewide_results_as_of_4.27.23.pdf?_gl=1*1wkx0xy*_gcl_au*MTQyNzQ2MDgzNy4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga*MTEwNTE3ODc1OS4xNjg0OTA2Mzk4*_ga_CS21GC49KT*MTY4NDkwOTY0OS4yLjEuMTY4NDkxMTY2MS4wLjAuMA..&_ga=2.69131411.367003707.1684906398-1105178759.1684906398\">can look up lead-level results (PDF)\u003c/a> in EWG’s database and, if the results from that facility are missing, press them to test their water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the center has been found to have an unsafe level of lead in its water, Little encourages parents to ask providers for details on what they have done to lower those levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kumiko Inui, director of ABC Preschool in San Francisco, whose lead levels ranked fourth highest in the study, said that result was due to an outdoor sink that hadn’t been used in years and has since been shut off. But she said other fixtures at the Japanese-English bilingual preschool were below 5 ppb, and that the school uses a filter in its kitchen sink and supplies bottled water to students.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11926006","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/Screen-Shot-2022-09-15-at-8.16.23-PM-1200x750-1-1020x638.png","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’m disappointed to get this kind of attention,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Griswold, principal of St. Catherine of Siena in Martinez, which ranked fifth in the statewide study, said high levels of lead were found in water from a sink in the director’s office that similarly hadn’t been used for several years. As a precaution, she said, students now get their drinking water from dispensers instead of fountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Kidango Linda Vista in San José, which had the 11th highest lead levels, said the center replaced problematic fixtures and supply lines and retested the water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are pleased to report that each classroom at Linda Vista now has alternate fixtures that dispense water containing zero lead particles,” the spokesperson, Mario Fierro-Hernandez, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tiffany Teele, the director of the Bunker Hill Parents Participation Nursery School in San Mateo, which ranked 13th in lead levels, said an outdoor faucet that was only used for washing hands was the problematic fixture. The school has since replaced the faucet, retested the water and has been cleared, 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/11950806/1-in-4-california-child-care-centers-has-unsafe-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water-first-mandatory-testing-finds","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_18540","news_19906","news_8"],"tags":["news_32768","news_32698","news_22570","news_32102","news_20013","news_32769","news_27626","news_18543","news_3025","news_5356","news_17763"],"featImg":"news_11950995","label":"source_news_11950806"},"news_11948690":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11948690","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11948690","score":null,"sort":[1683582144000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco","title":"How a Local Tax Is Keeping Much-Needed Child Care in San Francisco Affordable","publishDate":1683582144,"format":"standard","headTitle":"How a Local Tax Is Keeping Much-Needed Child Care in San Francisco Affordable | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>When rain from an atmospheric river storm flooded the preschool inside Corey Santillan’s hillside home in San Francisco this past winter, she thought she’d have to cancel class for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water seeping from underground wrecked the wood floors, books, art supplies, costumes for pretend play and other classroom materials. The damage was the latest existential threat to La Bamba Preschool — a business Santillan started 16 years ago when she couldn’t find a Spanish-immersion program for her daughter in their Oceanview neighborhood. It survived a recession, a pandemic in which two of her longtime teachers quit and years of financial struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been times when I thought it was time to say goodbye to this beautiful program,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But thanks to Baby Prop. C, a business tax to support San Francisco’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children, Santillan is starting to see some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a $15,000 grant to install a water pump and repair some of the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher reads to children gathered around her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo reads a book with her students in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also received stipends to boost her income — enough to allow her to hire a part-time assistant — and was able to access funding to build a structure in her back yard that will be used as a therapeutic room for kids who experience sensory overload. Since the pandemic, she’s seeing more kids with developmental delays due to social isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel I can afford to hire an extra staff so we can do that one-on-one work with the children that need it,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, San Francisco voters narrowly approved a commercial rent tax to expand access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and to help pay early educators a living wage. At the time, proponents argued for a dedicated funding stream for child care to help with waitlists \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Universal_Child_Rent_Tax.pdf\">for subsidized care for children under the age of 4 (PDF)\u003c/a> and to cover pay raises for early educators, a third of whom were relying on public assistance programs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep them in the workforce, the city intends to pay early educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/mayor-breed-announces-landmark-pay-raise-initiative-for-early-educators-in-city-funded-programs/\">at least $28 per hour by 2025\u003c/a>. This far exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/states/california/\">the $13.43 median wage for child care workers in California\u003c/a>, according to the latest data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman looks up at a boy as they stand in a yard with plants.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Santillan works with a student in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taxpayer and business groups challenged the measure and held it up in the courts but funds collected under it began reaching families and providers last year. Around the same time, Mayor London Breed launched the Department of Early Childhood, dedicating $300 million annually to support the city’s goal of providing universal early care and education to all young children. The bulk of the revenue comes from the commercial tax, although that number will likely dip \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-vacancy/3204043/#:~:text=%22The%20vacancy%20rate%20in%20San,commercial%20real%20estate%20firm%20CBRE.\">due to rising vacancy rates at downtown offices and retail spaces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/the-benefits-of-investing-in-early-childhood-educa/embed#?secret=2SEccoZXfv\" data-secret=\"2SEccoZXfv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/decs-year-in-review/\">have increased wages for teachers and expanded access to child care\u003c/a>, putting San Francisco further along than the rest of the state in reforming the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, families making up to 110% of the San Francisco area’s median income — \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/paying-for-ece/\">or up to $152,400 a year for a family of four\u003c/a> — can qualify for subsidized child care for their kids under age 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some luxury that you can do without,” said Wei-min Wang, deputy director for the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point, almost every family, every parent, every caregiver knows that early education is essential to getting kids a leg up in terms of getting ready for school — and, by virtue of that, ready for life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948712 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman engaged in arts activity with two children, one boy and one girl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo engages in an art activity with her students at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the rollout of Baby Prop. C, the waitlist for families eligible for subsidized care has gotten shorter — from the 2,000–3,000 range down to about 1,000, according to Wang — but there are lingering concerns about meeting the needs of families with babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to provide subsidies for low-income families with infant and toddlers will take some time. The infrastructure needed will take time,” former Supervisor Norman Yee, who spearheaded the campaign for Baby Prop. C, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concern I have is the growing of the workforce,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because caring for infants and toddlers is a labor-intensive job that costs more than other types of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the most expensive because ideally you’re in a situation where you have no more than three infants to each adult. Anything higher than that, I mean, you can just imagine … like having to care for four babies at one time,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='The True Cost of Child Care' tag='true-cost-of-child-care']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystle Danridge-Pierson saw the acute demand when, a year ago, she opened Each One Teach One out of her home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute I opened, my waitlist filled with pregnant women trying to line up child care for the babies in their bellies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danridge-Pierson said she received robust support from the San Francisco Children’s Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/for-child-care-programs/start-or-grow-your-business/\">Family Child Care Business Incubator program\u003c/a> to obtain a state license to open and grow her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months after opening, she was able to access city funding after meeting a set of high-quality standards. They include maintaining a safe and enriching environment, closely monitoring children’s development, communicating with parents about their children’s learning and keeping up with training to improve her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has to agree to serve lower- and middle-income parents and guardians like Keith Anderson, grandfather of a 2-year-old named Ajani — ensuring that they have access to a high-quality program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His growth in communication, his activities, the way he sings, the way he plays the piano,” Anderson said. “I can attribute that to Miss Krystle because she has a music session once a week on Fridays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Katie Le-Blanc said she sends her 5-year-old son, Remo, to Santillan’s small program because it offers him the opportunity to learn Spanish and focuses on developing the whole child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s growing compassionate children, she’s teaching curious children and she’s teaching them things like social justice, environmentalism, art, dance, sports,” Le-Blanc said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santillan and Danridge-Pierson are certified to teach in elementary schools, but instead they choose to dedicate themselves to early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman holds a small child up to her face while smiling. The child touches her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krystle Danridge-Pierson, founder and director at Each One Teach One Child Care, holds a small child at the San Francisco day care facility on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The age group that I enjoy and love pretty much the most is the babies, the beginning of all of their educational journey,” Danridge-Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term goal is to pay early educators the same salary as public school teachers so they can see a future in the profession, Wang said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Narrowly passed in 2018, Baby Prop. C has expanded access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and is helping pay early educators a living wage.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1683674099,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":33,"wordCount":1304},"headData":{"title":"How a Local Tax Is Keeping Much-Needed Child Care in San Francisco Affordable | KQED","description":"Narrowly passed in 2018, Baby Prop. 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The damage was the latest existential threat to La Bamba Preschool — a business Santillan started 16 years ago when she couldn’t find a Spanish-immersion program for her daughter in their Oceanview neighborhood. It survived a recession, a pandemic in which two of her longtime teachers quit and years of financial struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been times when I thought it was time to say goodbye to this beautiful program,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But thanks to Baby Prop. C, a business tax to support San Francisco’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children, Santillan is starting to see some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a $15,000 grant to install a water pump and repair some of the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher reads to children gathered around her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo reads a book with her students in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also received stipends to boost her income — enough to allow her to hire a part-time assistant — and was able to access funding to build a structure in her back yard that will be used as a therapeutic room for kids who experience sensory overload. Since the pandemic, she’s seeing more kids with developmental delays due to social isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel I can afford to hire an extra staff so we can do that one-on-one work with the children that need it,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, San Francisco voters narrowly approved a commercial rent tax to expand access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and to help pay early educators a living wage. At the time, proponents argued for a dedicated funding stream for child care to help with waitlists \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Universal_Child_Rent_Tax.pdf\">for subsidized care for children under the age of 4 (PDF)\u003c/a> and to cover pay raises for early educators, a third of whom were relying on public assistance programs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep them in the workforce, the city intends to pay early educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/mayor-breed-announces-landmark-pay-raise-initiative-for-early-educators-in-city-funded-programs/\">at least $28 per hour by 2025\u003c/a>. This far exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/states/california/\">the $13.43 median wage for child care workers in California\u003c/a>, according to the latest data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman looks up at a boy as they stand in a yard with plants.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Santillan works with a student in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taxpayer and business groups challenged the measure and held it up in the courts but funds collected under it began reaching families and providers last year. Around the same time, Mayor London Breed launched the Department of Early Childhood, dedicating $300 million annually to support the city’s goal of providing universal early care and education to all young children. The bulk of the revenue comes from the commercial tax, although that number will likely dip \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-vacancy/3204043/#:~:text=%22The%20vacancy%20rate%20in%20San,commercial%20real%20estate%20firm%20CBRE.\">due to rising vacancy rates at downtown offices and retail spaces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/the-benefits-of-investing-in-early-childhood-educa/embed#?secret=2SEccoZXfv\" data-secret=\"2SEccoZXfv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/decs-year-in-review/\">have increased wages for teachers and expanded access to child care\u003c/a>, putting San Francisco further along than the rest of the state in reforming the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, families making up to 110% of the San Francisco area’s median income — \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/paying-for-ece/\">or up to $152,400 a year for a family of four\u003c/a> — can qualify for subsidized child care for their kids under age 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some luxury that you can do without,” said Wei-min Wang, deputy director for the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point, almost every family, every parent, every caregiver knows that early education is essential to getting kids a leg up in terms of getting ready for school — and, by virtue of that, ready for life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948712 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman engaged in arts activity with two children, one boy and one girl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo engages in an art activity with her students at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the rollout of Baby Prop. C, the waitlist for families eligible for subsidized care has gotten shorter — from the 2,000–3,000 range down to about 1,000, according to Wang — but there are lingering concerns about meeting the needs of families with babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to provide subsidies for low-income families with infant and toddlers will take some time. The infrastructure needed will take time,” former Supervisor Norman Yee, who spearheaded the campaign for Baby Prop. C, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concern I have is the growing of the workforce,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because caring for infants and toddlers is a labor-intensive job that costs more than other types of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the most expensive because ideally you’re in a situation where you have no more than three infants to each adult. Anything higher than that, I mean, you can just imagine … like having to care for four babies at one time,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"The True Cost of Child Care ","tag":"true-cost-of-child-care"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystle Danridge-Pierson saw the acute demand when, a year ago, she opened Each One Teach One out of her home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute I opened, my waitlist filled with pregnant women trying to line up child care for the babies in their bellies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danridge-Pierson said she received robust support from the San Francisco Children’s Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/for-child-care-programs/start-or-grow-your-business/\">Family Child Care Business Incubator program\u003c/a> to obtain a state license to open and grow her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months after opening, she was able to access city funding after meeting a set of high-quality standards. They include maintaining a safe and enriching environment, closely monitoring children’s development, communicating with parents about their children’s learning and keeping up with training to improve her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has to agree to serve lower- and middle-income parents and guardians like Keith Anderson, grandfather of a 2-year-old named Ajani — ensuring that they have access to a high-quality program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His growth in communication, his activities, the way he sings, the way he plays the piano,” Anderson said. “I can attribute that to Miss Krystle because she has a music session once a week on Fridays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Katie Le-Blanc said she sends her 5-year-old son, Remo, to Santillan’s small program because it offers him the opportunity to learn Spanish and focuses on developing the whole child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s growing compassionate children, she’s teaching curious children and she’s teaching them things like social justice, environmentalism, art, dance, sports,” Le-Blanc said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santillan and Danridge-Pierson are certified to teach in elementary schools, but instead they choose to dedicate themselves to early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman holds a small child up to her face while smiling. The child touches her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krystle Danridge-Pierson, founder and director at Each One Teach One Child Care, holds a small child at the San Francisco day care facility on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The age group that I enjoy and love pretty much the most is the babies, the beginning of all of their educational journey,” Danridge-Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term goal is to pay early educators the same salary as public school teachers so they can see a future in the profession, Wang said.\u003cbr>\n\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>\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/11948690/business-tax-provides-crucial-funding-for-early-childhood-education-and-care-in-san-francisco","authors":["11829"],"categories":["news_31795","news_18540","news_8"],"tags":["news_32710","news_18538","news_32102","news_20013","news_17763","news_32709","news_32697"],"featImg":"news_11948817","label":"source_news_11948690"},"news_11941943":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11941943","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11941943","score":null,"sort":[1677459657000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"preschool-soft-spaces","title":"Preschool: 'Soft Spaces'","publishDate":1677459657,"format":"audio","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sundaymusicdrop\">The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team.\u003c/a> In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vocalist and drummer Ava Lynch describes the band Preschool as “an amalgam of surf, art rock, and garage rock.” The San Francisco-based trio also includes Nikki Yaffe and Corbin Nutini. They met in high school at an after-school music program called the San Francisco Rock Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s located in the heart of downtown, right on Harrison. And it really cultivated in us our crucial adolescent phase,\" Lynch said. After a while, she says playing covers became old: \"For us we just wanted to gravitate to writing original songs,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preschool’s songwriting process begins with Lynch and Yaffe; Lynch describes both herself and Yaffe as sensitive people who enjoy poetry and creative writing. The trio then work together to lay out the melodies and rhythmic qualities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like creating this duality of feeling really emotional, but tying that into very rock-heavy, garage-rock feelings and sounds,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The song \"Soft Spaces\" was written by Yaffe, who was inspired by the idea of places of comfort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of these places hit home for the band members, whose practice space was destroyed in a devastating fire last December. Lynch’s father's screen printing business, Babylon Burning, was home not only to the band’s practice space and the business, but also DIY shows Preschool hosted with peers from school and the San Francisco music scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would put together fashion runways, gallery exhibits, benefit shows, and we were inviting our friends who are all musicians, all artists themselves, to come and collaborate,\" Lynch said. \"There is like this beautiful merge of community-centered spaces and arts and music that I think is really alive and well in San Francisco still — in the Bay Area, actually, as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch speaks highly of the music and arts community in the Bay Area, which she credits for helping raise money to find a new space for Babylon Burning, and for providing them with temporary practice space back at the San Francisco Rock Project, where the band members all met.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Being from such a diverse city full of cultures, backgrounds and identities, it definitely has an influence,\" she said. \"Cultural joy can be reflected in so many different forms of art. But I see it specifically when community is brought together in a safe space where people are free to be themselves.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lynch says being true to yourself and respectful of others should be on everybody's radar. \"Celebrating those aspects I think are really crucial to what we can do to further ourselves as Bay Area people in the arts in general,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preschool will be performing at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ivyroom.com/#/events\">Ivy Room\u003c/a> in Albany on Monday, March 13, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'I like creating this duality of feeling really emotional, but tying that into very rock-heavy, garage-rock feelings and sounds,' said vocalist and drummer Ava Lynch.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1677529545,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":511},"headData":{"title":"Preschool: 'Soft Spaces' | KQED","description":"'I like creating this duality of feeling really emotional, but tying that into very rock-heavy, garage-rock feelings and sounds,' said vocalist and drummer Ava Lynch.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Preschool: 'Soft Spaces'","datePublished":"2023-02-27T01:00:57.000Z","dateModified":"2023-02-27T20:25:45.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/SMD_-PreSchool_230226.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11941943/preschool-soft-spaces","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/sundaymusicdrop\">The Sunday Music Drop is a weekly radio series hosted by the KQED weekend news team.\u003c/a> In each segment, we feature a song from a local musician or band with an upcoming show and hear about what inspires their music.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vocalist and drummer Ava Lynch describes the band Preschool as “an amalgam of surf, art rock, and garage rock.” The San Francisco-based trio also includes Nikki Yaffe and Corbin Nutini. 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About two-thirds of the funds will go toward early childhood education and the other third toward college tuition assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she hopes the long-term investment will make an impact for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To parents, I hope you each feel a burden lifted off your shoulders, that preschool will be affordable for all children in Oakland, that college will be accessible and affordable … this is something you should expect from your government and, more importantly, from your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Lerma, chair of a commission in charge of providing oversight for the distribution of funds, said the initiative will first target the children who need it most before expanding the preschool program to all of Oakland’s young children.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf\"]'To parents, I hope you each feel a burden lifted off your shoulders, that preschool will be affordable for all children in Oakland, that college will be accessible and affordable.'[/pullquote]That means about 6,000 of the city’s 14,000 children who are between 3 and 5 years old will be given first dibs on access to Head Start and preschool programs operated by Oakland Unified School District because they come from lower-income households, said Jennifer Cabán, accountability officer for the Children’s Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her team will then expand access to the city’s mixed-delivery system of child care, ranging from nonprofit-run early childhood programs to home-based family child care programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf noted that the initiative was one of several recent programs benefiting Oakland’s children, including \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a>, a $50 million privately raised endowment to set up college savings accounts for infants and scholarships for public school students from lower-income families. She also mentioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandundivided.org/\">Oakland Undivided\u003c/a>, an effort borne out of the pandemic to provide home internet access to public school students who didn’t have any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city temporarily suspended collecting the parcel tax after a group of property owners sought to invalidate the measure. But last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/State-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-Oakland-s-16739339.php\">a California appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the tax could be reinstated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure to add \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/\">a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda County to fund more subsidized child care and pediatric health care\u003c/a> for children from lower-income families is still being contested in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both measures are examples of \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/18/23404090/new-mexico-election-result-child-care-early-childhood-prek\">increasing public investment in early childhood education\u003c/a>. The lack of affordable, high-quality early childhood programs, particularly for families with lower incomes, have prompted local governments to create dedicated funding streams for early learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the bay, officials in San Francisco are using funds raised from a commercial rent tax voters passed in 2018 to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/State-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-Oakland-s-16739339.php\">raise teachers’ salaries and subsidy rates (PDF)\u003c/a> for child care and early intervention services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The implementation of the Oakland Children's Initiative comes after the city won a court battle over Measure AA, the parcel tax measure approved by voters in 2018 to fund early education and college readiness.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1673649250,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":580},"headData":{"title":"Outgoing Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Touts Start of Voter-Approved Measure to Fund Early Education | KQED","description":"The implementation of the Oakland Children's Initiative comes after the city won a court battle over Measure AA, the parcel tax measure approved by voters in 2018 to fund early education and college readiness.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Outgoing Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Touts Start of Voter-Approved Measure to Fund Early Education","datePublished":"2022-12-22T20:10:35.000Z","dateModified":"2023-01-13T22:34:10.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","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","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11936175/outgoing-oakland-mayor-libby-schaaf-touts-start-of-voter-approved-measure-to-fund-early-education","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Outgoing Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf touted the expansion of affordable preschool for the city’s children most in need of it, in her final news conference on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The implementation of \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandca.gov/boards-commissions/childrens-initiative-oversight-commission\">the Oakland Children’s Initiative\u003c/a> comes after the city won a court battle over Measure AA, the parcel tax measure approved by voters in 2018 to fund early education and college readiness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure authorizes the city to collect $198 a year in parcel tax on single-family homes, and $135 a year per unit of each multiunit residence, totaling about $35 million annually over the next 30 years. About two-thirds of the funds will go toward early childhood education and the other third toward college tuition assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf said she hopes the long-term investment will make an impact for generations to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To parents, I hope you each feel a burden lifted off your shoulders, that preschool will be affordable for all children in Oakland, that college will be accessible and affordable … this is something you should expect from your government and, more importantly, from your community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jorge Lerma, chair of a commission in charge of providing oversight for the distribution of funds, said the initiative will first target the children who need it most before expanding the preschool program to all of Oakland’s young children.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'To parents, I hope you each feel a burden lifted off your shoulders, that preschool will be affordable for all children in Oakland, that college will be accessible and affordable.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That means about 6,000 of the city’s 14,000 children who are between 3 and 5 years old will be given first dibs on access to Head Start and preschool programs operated by Oakland Unified School District because they come from lower-income households, said Jennifer Cabán, accountability officer for the Children’s Initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her team will then expand access to the city’s mixed-delivery system of child care, ranging from nonprofit-run early childhood programs to home-based family child care programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schaaf noted that the initiative was one of several recent programs benefiting Oakland’s children, including \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/\">Oakland Promise\u003c/a>, a $50 million privately raised endowment to set up college savings accounts for infants and scholarships for public school students from lower-income families. 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But last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/eastbay/article/State-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-Oakland-s-16739339.php\">a California appeals court in San Francisco ruled that the tax could be reinstated\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another measure to add \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/\">a 0.5% sales tax in Alameda County to fund more subsidized child care and pediatric health care\u003c/a> for children from lower-income families is still being contested in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both measures are examples of \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/10/18/23404090/new-mexico-election-result-child-care-early-childhood-prek\">increasing public investment in early childhood education\u003c/a>. 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The department promises to provide children under 6 with expanded access to child care and education with the backing of nearly $300 million in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Early Childhood Education and Care' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']And at the state level, two recent developments aim to streamline the search and enrollment process: A few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will cut layers of red tape for families applying for subsidized child care and preschool. Services for children and families are typically spread across multiple state agencies, forcing parents to go from one office to another to apply for services, frequently redocumenting the same income and other eligibility information. The new law (\u003ca href=\"https://earlyedgecalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SB-1047-Factsheet_Childcare-for-Infants-and-Toddlers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1047, by state Senator Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara\u003c/a>) cuts the paperwork and eases the enrollment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 11, the state also launched a new search website at \u003ca href=\"http://Mychildcareplan.org\">Mychildcareplan.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What's the current early childhood education landscape in San Francisco, and how is it changing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED's Natalia Navarro, Ingrid Mezquita, executive director of the new Department of Early Childhood in San Francisco, described the current early care and education system in San Francisco as very decentralized, mirroring most other state and national systems. \"They have different tuition rates. 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This will allow families to see whether they are eligible for federal, state or local funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this new department work to ensure equity in the kinds of families that it serves?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"Our focus is always going to be families who are in greatest need,\" Mezquita said. \"We want to make sure that the services and supports are meaningful.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said their goal is to reduce or eliminate racial disparities. \"We're in this unique position where not only are we going to be funding child care, but we're also looking at children in a holistic way,\" she said. She said this will include looking at comprehensive services and ensuring there are no gaps or missing links to support children and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When are you expecting expanded services to be available to families?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\"We were just approved as a new department, so we're building that infrastructure,\" said Mezquita. \"We've already expanded eligibility for families who are making up to 110% of area median income, meaning that if you're making roughly around $120,000 or below, you may be eligible for child care financing through our department.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will families benefit from the merging of two separate departments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said the information will soon be in a centralized place, and the department will be able to provide families information in multiple languages, \"not only for their child care, but also for their child's well-being,\" she added. \"San Francisco has an array of services and supports for families. And one of the most difficult thing has been being able to find them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When can San Francisco families access the information?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said she's hoping it will be accessible in the next few months. \"We already have a portal, which is where families can find child care: \u003ca href=\"https://www.earlylearningsf.org/#/Dashboard\">Early Learning San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can easily find child care in your area. You can see what you're eligible for in case you're eligible for any financial assistance.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I access the California State Preschool Program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your family is seeking access to the California State Preschool Program, you’re automatically eligible for the early education program if you’re already enrolled in Medi-Cal, CalFresh, WIC or Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once your child is enrolled, the new law guarantees two years of care and education. Previously, families were granted only 12 months of service and had to reapply for an extension.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Where can I find affordable, quality child care elsewhere in California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A new state-funded website helps match families struggling to find affordable, quality care with providers. \u003ca href=\"https://mychildcareplan.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mychildcareplan.org \u003c/a>launched on October 11, and lists every licensed provider in California and their safety record, including their history of inspections and any citations they may have received; their vacancies; the type of care they provide; and the language(s) spoken at their center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new website consolidates information from each of the state's 58 local child care resource and referral agencies, connecting families to child care, financial aid and other services. It also aims to better serve parents and caregivers who may work in one county but live in another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can enter your ZIP code, you could enter the city, and then it does radial search depending on ... your filters,” said Linda Asato of the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network. “You're no longer just bound by the information at that one agency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The website is free and does not charge a subscription fee for parents or providers. 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The new law (\u003ca href=\"https://earlyedgecalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SB-1047-Factsheet_Childcare-for-Infants-and-Toddlers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1047, by state Senator Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara\u003c/a>) cuts the paperwork and eases the enrollment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 11, the state also launched a new search website at \u003ca href=\"http://Mychildcareplan.org\">Mychildcareplan.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What's the current early childhood education landscape in San Francisco, and how is it changing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED's Natalia Navarro, Ingrid Mezquita, executive director of the new Department of Early Childhood in San Francisco, described the current early care and education system in San Francisco as very decentralized, mirroring most other state and national systems. \"They have different tuition rates. 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