PUBLIC POLICY ALERT
Children cannot vote and we can make a difference in the lives of children and their families. We need to continue the connections to our legislators at the district offices and especially at the State Capitol where policies are made.
Mark your calendar for a town hall with representatives of the California Early Learning Quality Improvement System (CAEL QIS) Advisory Committee on March 26, 2010 from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., at the Braille Institute, located at 741 North Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90029.
The town hall will convene expert panelists to discuss the federal early learning landscape, current work to create a statewide quality improvement system, as well as local quality improvement efforts in Los Angeles. Additionally, the public forum will gather recommendations from participants for specific CAEL QIS subcommittees. Please register online here.
Read more about the Early Learning Quality Rating and Improvement System.
Read the ELQIS interim report.
Read the Watercooler QRIS Workgroup Recommendations.
Bills submitted to Assembly and Senate
AB
1683 (Torres) - Preschool priorities - The bill would
require priority for participation in state preschool programs also to be
given to children who have a biological custodial parent who is, or who has
been within the previous 6 months, a dependent or ward of the juvenile court
pursuant to specified provisions of law. The bill would prohibit priority
enrollment from being used to displace children who are currently receiving
care.
AB
1831 (Solorio) - After school programs - This bill would
require, under the After School Education and Safety Program, the department
to make available 24%, or $132,000,000 each year, whichever is greater, for
after school programs for English learners that meet specified criteria,
including that the program provide instruction and practice in academic
lessons that increase knowledge and usage of the English language, establish
programs and learning strategies that support English learners, and provide
the staff with professional development designed to improve instruction to
English learners. The bill would require the Superintendent to adopt emergency
regulations to implement this provision within 90 days of its effective date.
AB
1876 (Torlakson) - Education: After school Education and Safety Program:
volunteers - This bill would provide, under the After
School Education andSafety Program, that volunteers may be used to conduct
non-supervisorial duties in these after school programs.
AB
1967 (Mendoza) - Pupil admission: kindergarten and first grade
- (1) This bill would change the required birthday for kindergarten and first
grade admission to November 2 for the 2012-13 school year, October 2 for the
2013-14 school year, and September 2 for the 2014-15 school year and each
school year thereafter. (2) This bill, in order to compensate school districts
for the loss in average daily attendance resulting from changing the age at
which children are required to be admitted to kindergarten, would increase the
number of units of average daily attendance (ADA) computed for a school
district for the purpose of computing the revenue limit of the school district
for each of the 2012-13 to 2026-27 fiscal years, inclusive, according to a
specified formula.
AB
1979 (
AB
2084 (Brownley) - Child day care facilities: Nutrition -
This bill would require a licensed child day care facility to follow specified
guidelines relating to the provision of beverages. Statutory provisions
establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
AB
2178 (Torlakson) - After School Education and Safety Program -
(1) This bill, to the extent consistent with federal and state privacy laws,
would authorize local educational agency grantees funded pursuant to the After
School Education and Safety Program to submit specified data to each operator
of an after school program.(2) This bill would require that these tools and
procedures be developed consistent with specified provisions of law.
AB
2252 (Torrico) – Child care and development services -
Expresses the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to provide a
universal preschool program that would be available for 3- and 4-year-old
children, to be funded through the imposition of an inheritance tax.
AB
2323 (Torlakson) - Child development contracts - This
bill would authorize a contractor to carry forward certain reimbursable
expenses and unearned funds to a subsequent contract issued by the department
to continue the same program or services, subject to specified requirements.
(Sponsored by CCDAA)
AB
2445 (Furutani) - Education: achievement gap - This bill
would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to improve
education to close the achievement gap. (Spot bill)
AB
2463 (Brownley) - Child care resource and referral programs
- (1) This bill would require a child care resource andreferral program to
provide specified additional services, including providing training and
workshops relating to child care services, community resource assistance, and
collaborating with and assisting other community agencies in planning,
coordinating, and improvingchild care. The bill would delete provisions
authorizing a resource and referral program to provide short-term respite
care, as defined. The bill would require a resource and referral program to
provide basic child care referrals, as defined, at no cost. (2) The bill would
establish the Growing, Learning, Caring Project to foster and improve the
quality of child care in all settings, including child care settings that are
exempt from licensing requirements. (3) The bill would impose additional
requirements on resource and referral programs relating to the trustline,
including providing specified additional data, and reviewing and processing
trustline applications for in-home or license-exempt home-based child care
providers who are being paid through state-funded child care subsidies.
AB
2553 (Brownley) - Child development services: school readiness
- This bill would require CDE to collect data that will assess the school
readiness of children entering kindergarten and that reflect all of the major
domains of child development, as specified.
AB
2592 (Buchanan) - Early Learning Quality Improvement System
- This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
relating to the Early Learning Quality Improvement System.
SB
892 (Alquist) - Community care facilities - This bill
would make technical, non-substantive changes to a provision of the Community
Care Licensing act (a spot bill).
SB
898 (Ashburn) - After School Education and Safety Program -
This bill, notwithstanding current limits, would establish a minimumtotal
direct grant amount for small schools, as specified. This bill would set forth
a finding and declaration that the proposed amendments further the purposes of
the act.
SB
1109 (Cox) - California Children and Families Program: funding -This
bill, subject to voter approval, would eliminate the percentages for
allocations to various state and local accounts and would, instead, provide
that those funds, with specified exceptions, shall be transferred to the
General Fund for appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of the Healthy
Families Program and the Medi-Cal program. The bill would provide for the
distribution, as prescribed, of funds held by county children and families
commissions and by the California Children and Families Commission that remain
unencumbered on the date that the bill's provisions are approved by the
voters. This bill would abolish the California Children and Families
Commission and the county children and families commissions, effective 90 days
after the bill is approved by the voters, and would repeal related obsolete
provisions. This bill would require that its provisions be submitted to the
voters for approval at the next statewide election. (urgency statute)
SB
1126 (Liu) - Early childhood education course requirements
- This bill would require the Trustees of the California State University, and
request the Regents of the University of California, in conjunction with the
Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, to develop
articulation and transfer program agreements for early childhood education and
related majors. The bill would require those agreements to include a waiver of
course requirements for those majors for completion of similar courses at a
community college and to count those courses toward the completion of minimum
upper division requirements for those majors.
SB
1159 (Maldonado) - Community care facilities - This bill
would make non-substantive, technical changes to Community Care Licensing.
(spot bill)
SB
1225 (Yee) - San Francisco individualized county child care subsidy plan -
This bill would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to implement an
individualized county child care subsidy plan until June 30, 2016, and would
require the city and county to phase out the plan by January 1, 2018. The bill
would require the city and county to demonstrate an increase in earned child
days of enrollment by the end of the first fiscal year of operation under the
child care subsidy plan submitted to and approved by the Child Development
Division of the department after January 1, 2010. The bill would require the
city and county, on or before December 31, 2016, to submit a final report to
the Legislature and other specified entities that summarizes the impact of the
plan. The bill would repeal those provisions on January 1, 2018.
SB
1381 (Simitian) - Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Program -
This bill would extend the operative date of the Kindergarten Readiness Pilot
Program to the January 1, 2016.
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State Representatives to Contact
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
,
State Capitol ,
Karen Bass -
Assembly Speaker Elect - 47th
District
Tel. (323)937-4747) or (916)319-2047
assemblymember.Bass@assembly.ca.gov
Julia
Brownley - Assembly Member – 41st District
Tel: (916) 319-2041 or (310) 395-3414
assemblymember.Brownley
@assembly.ca.gov
Ted W. Lieu - Assembly Member - 53rd District Tel: ( 310) 615-3518 or (916) 319 - 2053 assemblymember.Lieu@assembly.ca.gov
Senator
Fran
Pavley -
23rd District
Tel. (916) 651- 4023 or
(310)
441-9084
senator.pavley@sen.ca.gov
If your representative isn't listed
please go to:
http://leginfo.public.ca.gov/yourleg.html
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