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"content": "\u003cp>One sunny morning in mid-July, dozens of people filled the Bayview Opera House, in the heart of San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, to celebrate the 39 women and men who graduated from a training program for Black early childhood educators. The audience sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” watched Mayor London Breed deliver the commencement address, and cheered as the graduates walked across the stage to receive their certificate of completion — each one wearing graduation stoles with the words “Black Grads Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their achievements were a cause for celebration because of the high expectations riding on this city-funded program: to increase the number of Black early educators in San Francisco so they can help Black infants, toddlers and preschoolers gain the skills necessary to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about changing lives, this is about changing the future of African Americans in San Francisco,” the mayor said at the graduation ceremony, hailing the program as an effective investment of her signature \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamkeepersf.org/\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs67037_230714-educatorgraduation-19-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands on stage and speaks at a podium with their hand raised.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josiane Stokes sings ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ during a graduation ceremony for the Black Early Childhood Educator Career Pipeline at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a Black early childhood educator pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton co-founded the initiative in 2021 after the police killing of George Floyd sparked demands for police reform and a rethinking of policies that \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/AARAC%20Reparations%20Final%20Report%20July%207%2C%202023.pdf\">contributed to decades of inequities (PDF)\u003c/a> and the decline of San Francisco’s Black population. 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Over the past two years, 62 out of about 80 participating students obtained associate teaching permits in early childhood education from City College of San Francisco and have gone on to work in classrooms, start their own family child care business or pursue higher degrees. Recently, the city approved an additional two years of funding for the program.[aside postID=news_11935433,news_11929082,news_11948690,news_11948419 label='Child Care Costs']“This is huge, and why that’s important is because when you look at the data, when you look at the research, you see the decline of folks entering this field,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though there’s high demand for well-trained early childhood educators,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948419/care-cant-wait-californias-child-care-workers-demand-better-funding-for-essential-services\"> low pay can make it hard to attract or retain people in the profession\u003c/a>. 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I get to see them go from being little sprouts to tall giants that can actually change the world.’[/pullquote]“For some students in classes that I teach at [San Francisco State University and City College], I’m the first Black professor they’ve ever seen,” she said. “For this group, it was really important to not only show them that someone could be in higher education and be Black, but that, you know, this stuff is not as hard as you think.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides teaching 12 core units of child growth and development to the cohort, Sullivan facilitated discussions about the Black experience and how to respond to and care for children who have experienced neglect, abuse, violence, family separation, racism and other traumas. \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5california.com/en-us/articles/how-toxic-stress-can-affect-childrens-development/\">Emerging research\u003c/a> has found that toxic stress from these types of trauma can disrupt children’s brain development and undermine their ability to learn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“First, we talked about how we got this way. And then, how do we find a way to make sure that when we’re helping kids grow, that we are avoiding some of these dangerous pitfalls, barriers and situations that could cause trauma and how could we get around them? And then if we can’t get around them, how do we help people get past them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among this year’s cohort is Djimon Asberry. The 25-year-old said those lessons validated her decision to become an early educator. Asberry had plans to become a nurse after graduating from a historically Black college in east Texas two years ago, but a summer job caring for babies and toddlers at a daycare made her realize that she could make a difference in a child’s life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I found a passion that I didn’t know I had,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the pipeline program, Asberry said, having a Black professor and an all-Black cohort created a supportive environment where everyone pushed each other to do their best.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not ‘no, you’re not going to finish,’ you’re going to finish, you’re going to be successful,” she said. “Because they understand everybody has a life, everybody goes through things but they still push and encourage you and check on you every month to make sure your mind and mental [health] is correct so you’re able to finish.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asberry recently got a job as a substitute teacher at a Head Start program, but she’s thinking of taking more classes so she can one day open her own daycare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11956701\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1100px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/230727-educator-graduation-01-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11956701\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230727-Educator-Graduation-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A group of African-American women pose for a photo in a large indoor space.\" width=\"1100\" height=\"733\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230727-Educator-Graduation-01-KQED.jpg 1100w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230727-Educator-Graduation-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230727-Educator-Graduation-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/230727-Educator-Graduation-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The graduating class and San Francisco Mayor London Breed at a graduation ceremony for the Black Early Childhood Educator Career Pipeline at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Children's Council of San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another student was Sullivan’s own 35-year-old son, Matthew, who had been helping out at his mother’s daycare, Baby Steps Nature School, for years before enrolling in the pipeline program. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One sunny morning in mid-July, dozens of people filled the Bayview Opera House, in the heart of San Francisco’s historically Black neighborhood, to celebrate the 39 women and men who graduated from a training program for Black early childhood educators. The audience sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” watched Mayor London Breed deliver the commencement address, and cheered as the graduates walked across the stage to receive their certificate of completion — each one wearing graduation stoles with the words “Black Grads Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their achievements were a cause for celebration because of the high expectations riding on this city-funded program: to increase the number of Black early educators in San Francisco so they can help Black infants, toddlers and preschoolers gain the skills necessary to succeed in kindergarten and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is about changing lives, this is about changing the future of African Americans in San Francisco,” the mayor said at the graduation ceremony, hailing the program as an effective investment of her signature \u003ca href=\"https://www.dreamkeepersf.org/\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs67037_230714-educatorgraduation-19-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955861\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person stands on stage and speaks at a podium with their hand raised.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67037_230714-EducatorGraduation-19-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josiane Stokes sings ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ during a graduation ceremony for the Black Early Childhood Educator Career Pipeline at the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco on July 14, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Creating a Black early childhood educator pipeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton co-founded the initiative in 2021 after the police killing of George Floyd sparked demands for police reform and a rethinking of policies that \u003ca href=\"https://sf.gov/sites/default/files/2023-07/AARAC%20Reparations%20Final%20Report%20July%207%2C%202023.pdf\">contributed to decades of inequities (PDF)\u003c/a> and the decline of San Francisco’s Black population. They began by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">steering $60 million annually in Police Department funding\u003c/a> toward helping Black residents start businesses and take out loans to buy homes. At the time, Walton called the initiative “a first step towards true reparations for the Black community here in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $1.6 million from that fund was also set aside to support \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/support-us/key-initiatives/apprenticeship-program-pipeline-for-black-early-childhood-educator-career-development/\">the Pipeline for Black Early Childhood Educator pilot program\u003c/a>. Je Ton Carey, who oversees the program for the nonprofit Children’s Council San Francisco, said it’s already showing promising results. Over the past two years, 62 out of about 80 participating students obtained associate teaching permits in early childhood education from City College of San Francisco and have gone on to work in classrooms, start their own family child care business or pursue higher degrees. Recently, the city approved an additional two years of funding for the program.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is huge, and why that’s important is because when you look at the data, when you look at the research, you see the decline of folks entering this field,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though there’s high demand for well-trained early childhood educators,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948419/care-cant-wait-californias-child-care-workers-demand-better-funding-for-essential-services\"> low pay can make it hard to attract or retain people in the profession\u003c/a>. Fewer students are enrolling in early childhood education programs, \u003ca href=\"https://www.naeyc.org/sites/default/files/globally-shared/downloads/PDFs/accreditation/higher-ed/brief_-_covid_higher_ed_survey_results_fall_2021.pdf\">according to a 2021 survey of 400 colleges (PDF)\u003c/a> conducted by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.edsurge.com/news/2022-02-23-why-are-colleges-hesitant-to-train-more-early-childhood-educators\">some colleges stopped offering early education certification programs\u003c/a> because they don’t want to steer their students into careers that don’t pay a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To bring more Black students into the profession, San Francisco’s pipeline program covers tuition, provides $10,000 in stipends, laptops, a flexible class schedule, regular check-ins with a case manager and other forms of support over the course of 10 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some of the program’s participants, however, the stipend and free classes they received through the training wasn’t enough to offset the high cost of living in San Francisco. Twenty-three out of 40 students in the first cohort dropped out of the pipeline program, many of them citing financial reasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who’ve been impacted by the housing crisis, impacted by economic conditions that have pushed them out of San Francisco and they’re hoping that this opportunity will stabilize them,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the second year, 39 out of 40 students stuck it out. Carey thinks more students succeeded because the program provided more help, such as transportation and child care during classes. One student, for example, was experiencing homelessness. Carey said her staff helped the woman find temporary housing until she was able to graduate and find work at a child care center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But in order to see that pay bump, teachers have to meet certain criteria: They must be trained to offer high-quality care and teaching to young kids, and agree to serve lower-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is only 10 out of 287 family child care businesses that meet those requirements are Black-owned, according to the city’s Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That number is too low,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The disparity underscores the need to diversify the workforce, she said, because all children, and especially Black children, benefit from having Black role models in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Research shows that Black students who have even one Black teacher during elementary school are \u003ca href=\"https://www.nber.org/papers/w25254\">more likely to graduate high school\u003c/a> and enroll in college and less likely to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.educationnext.org/teacher-race-and-school-discipline-suspensions-research/\">removed from the classroom as a form of discipline\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s something about affirming a child’s culture when there is a teacher that represents them in a classroom … that understands their experiences, their family … there’s something around that that has impacted Black children’s success,” Carey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/rs67029_230714-educatorgraduation-03-bl-kqed/\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955858\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='A black, green, yellow and red striped graduation stole with the words \"Class of 2023\" and \"Black Grads Matter\" written on it.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS67029_230714-EducatorGraduation-03-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate Maryetta Jefferson, 60, poses for a photo outside of the Bayview Opera House in San Francisco on July 14, 2023, before a graduation ceremony for the Black Early Childhood Educator Career Pipeline. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The hope is that having more Black early educators will help narrow persistent educational disparities in San Francisco. The \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/files/CG5V977F8741/%24file/6_28_22%20-%20SFUSD%20Student%20Performance%20Analysis.pdf\">most recent data from San Francisco Unified School District (PDF)\u003c/a> shows only 43.8% of Black children were deemed ready for kindergarten, compared to nearly 70% of white and 67.6% of Asian American children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kindergarten readiness is a major concern among education advocates and policymakers because research shows children who enter kindergarten behind \u003ca href=\"https://bipartisanpolicy.org/download/?file=/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Early-Childhood-Report_36-years-later_September-2019.pdf\">are likely to stay behind throughout their educational careers (PDF)\u003c/a>. At SFUSD, Black students graduate high school and attend college at lower rates than the district’s Asian American and white students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A panel of early education experts formed by the Children’s Council concluded \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Childrens-Council-SF-AAECEP-White-Paper-Nov-2022-final.pdf\">in a 2021 report (PDF)\u003c/a> that the city’s early education systems weren’t supporting Black children enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because 90% of a child’s brain develops during the first five years of life, the report said, Black children need high-quality early education and care because it “can serve as a positive intervention that allows a child’s brain to overcome the stresses of poverty, hunger, violence, housing instability and economic racism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The onus falls on Black early educators, then, to nurture these children and chart their social-emotional, cognitive and physical development to ensure they have the foundational skills for kindergarten, said Dr. Patricia Sullivan, who taught most of the classes to this year’s program cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I found a passion that I didn’t know I had’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like some of the students in the cohort, Sullivan started out providing child care out of her home before she went back to school to obtain degrees in developmental psychology and early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of being a Black teacher in the classroom, and being the first in her family to graduate to college, isn’t lost on Sullivan.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Questions asked included whether parents could pay for food, child care and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Philip Fisher, director, Stanford Center on Early Childhood\"]‘If we’re concerned about the well-being of kids, we should be concerned about the well-being of adults in the lives of children.’[/pullquote]“The combination, where you have higher prices to pay for basic things like food and gas and you have these tax credits and other payments that went away, that’s where you see people really falling over the edge,” said Philip Fisher, director of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11955877\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-800x478.png\" alt=\"A graph from the RAPID survey showing families reporting hardship over time.\" width=\"800\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-800x478.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-1020x609.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM-160x96.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/Screenshot-2023-07-17-at-1.14.52-PM.png 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fisher said researchers found what he calls a “chain reaction to hardship” — when parents can’t afford to pay for child care or food in a given week, that causes them higher levels of distress, and then their children begin struggling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947683,news_11952349,news_11949679\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“If we’re concerned about the well-being of kids, we should be concerned about the well-being of adults in the lives of children,” Fisher said. “Policies that support families’ economic stability and sufficiency are critical for supporting children’s early learning, and when we see those policies go away, we’re placing additional burden on the education system to make up for the ground that’s lost for families having this kind of hardship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates for families with young children in California said that though the survey is nationwide, California policymakers can learn from it and put in place more policies to help children from an early age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families with infants and toddlers have largely been told, ‘You’re on your own,’” said Stacy Lee, chief learning officer and senior managing director for early childhood at the advocacy organization Children Now. “The more we can do earlier on to support families, we know that that results in good outcomes for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said she applauds California legislators and the governor for funding or expanding several programs in this year’s budget that will help low-income families, such as increasing subsidies for child care and capping the amount families have to pay for subsidized child care to 1% of their income. In addition, she mentioned that a budgeted increase for CalWORKs, a public assistance program that provides cash aid to low-income families with children, and CalFresh, the state’s food stamp program, and expanding free school meals to summertime will all help the lowest-income families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But there are still a large number of families out there who may not fit that criteria and will see continuing challenges to navigate life in the coming year,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said programs that help alleviate poverty for families have a clear effect on children’s education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know that it makes it harder for children to concentrate at school if they’re hungry,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that this data makes clear that poverty is a policy choice,” said Mayra Alvarez, president of The Children’s Partnership, a nonprofit children’s advocacy organization based in Los Angeles. “During the pandemic, rules were put in place to make accessing services and programs easier for families. We have to ask ourselves, why can’t it always be this way?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarez said it is urgent for California to do something to help young children keep health insurance now that pandemic-era requirements to keep continuous Medi-Cal coverage have ended. She said an estimated 2 million to 3 million Californians could lose coverage, including between 800,000 and 1 million children. A law passed last year will allow children to keep Medi-Cal coverage from birth to age 5, but it won’t be implemented until 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This delay in implementation places thousands of children at risk of losing coverage unnecessarily, and it’s why we, alongside many partners, are asking the administration to move forward with implementation as quickly as possible,” Alvarez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2023/families-with-young-children-face-increased-hardship-after-pandemic-relief-policies-end/693962\">This story originally appeared in EdSource.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gabriela Guerrero’s children are all grown and have moved out, but the former stay-at-home mom never stopped raising kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children who attend her home day care in El Centro, in Imperial County near the Mexico border, are as young as 3 months old. Some are the children of farmworkers who drop them off at Guerrero’s house before their shifts in the predawn hours. Nearly all are from families poor enough to qualify for state subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the families can’t afford basic needs, Guerrero said, so the 57-year-old makes sure to provide their children with milk, diapers and sometimes clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the families to go to work knowing that (their children are) well taken care of, and they’re being loved and fed correctly,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero’s labor of love barely earns her a living. After paying two assistants and other costs, she figures she takes home about $3 or $4 an hour. She takes on credit card debt to keep her business going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/fact-sheet/profiles-of-the-california-early-care-and-education-workforce-2020/\">family child care providers — the vast majority of them women of color\u003c/a> — have said they don’t get paid enough by the state of California to cover the costs of their businesses. Their fight for better pay and benefits, a two-decades-old effort, is reaching a fever pitch in California’s capital this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re pressing Gov. Gavin Newsom to raise their pay, and they have the Legislature on their side. Lawmakers put $1 billion for raises in their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-legislature-2/\">version of a state budget\u003c/a> that they passed last week. That funding remains one of the key differences between Newsom and the Legislature as they hammer out a budget deal before July 1 that accounts for an estimated $32 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The full cost of California child care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom deemed the child care industry critical to getting parents back to work and recovering the state’s economy from the pandemic. He signed legislation in 2019 allowing home child care providers like Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/03/unionizing-child-care-workers-california-legislation/\">to unionize and bargain with the state over subsidized child care reimbursement rates\u003c/a>. And the state has issued multiple rounds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2021/02/child-care-union-secures-covid-19-relief-funding-approval/\">temporary stipends\u003c/a> to providers who lost revenue during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 40,000-member union representing the home-based providers says Newsom’s administration isn’t offering providers enough to keep them in business long term. The union’s current contract expires in less than two weeks, at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bargaining for a new one this year, the union has called for a 25% bump in reimbursement rates the state pays to providers who care for low-income families’ kids — and state funding for the union to set up a trust to issue retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11953745 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman holding a microphone and wearing glasses stands in front of a crowd. She's wearing a yellow shirt.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Guerrero, a family child care provider, speaks to the crowd gathered for the Child Care Providers United rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Providers staged a rally with about 2,000 members and supporters at the Capitol last week and plan to set up camp outside the governor’s mansion this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a direct result of their action, providers are gaining ground in negotiations towards pay increases and basic benefits — but we have yet to see a fair and just contract offer from the state,” said Max Arias, chair of the Child Care Providers’ Union, in a statement. “There appears to be no interest in committing to ongoing rate increases or covering the full cost of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family or home-based providers care for 28% of children who attend licensed facilities in California. Parents also send children to day care centers or state-funded preschools, or pay a family member or friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A stopgap measure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To some advocates and members of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, even winning the raises would be only a stopgap measure to keep providers in business. The child care industry has \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">experienced a slow recovery\u003c/a> the past three years and still employs 5% fewer people than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study by the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.[aside label=\"More Coverage\" tag=\"child-care-providers\"]They’re pushing the state to move faster to fundamentally overhaul the way it calculates reimbursement rates. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/monique-limon-1979/\">Monique Limón\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Santa Barbara, authored a bill this year directing the state to overhaul the rates and provide the $1 billion raise in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1 billion in the Legislature’s budget “solves an immediate problem,” she said. “It doesn’t solve the full, 10-year problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/10/california-child-care-worker-shortage/\">state’s reimbursement rates are generally tied to how much providers charge\u003c/a> in the private market — but because many child care providers lower their prices to meet what parents can afford, the rates have ended up artificially low, in \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalWORKs/CCT/CCDD/Rate%20and%20Quality%20Stakeholder%20Workgroup%20Report_August%202022_FINAL%20ADA%20(2).pdf?ver=2022-08-24-081240-333\">a system that a state-commissioned report last year described as a “market failure” (PDF)\u003c/a>. That in turn results in chronic shortages of child care for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report, on child care funding in California, was commissioned by a working group the state convened as part of its current contract with the child care union. In the report the national firm Prenatal to Five Fiscal Strategies, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/_files/ugd/8fd549_831af20bfb4142b59fda11194bb908fd.pdf\">California pays some day care owners as little as a quarter of what the service costs (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new model\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the southern region of the state, where Guerrero lives, the firm estimated it costs a home-based provider like hers more than $39,000 a year to provide quality care for one infant or toddler. The state reimburses about $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same report recommended the state adopt a new method for calculating reimbursement rates that is based on real costs like the ones the firm calculated, rather than surveys of day care rates. It has drawn support from both business and labor: \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrennow.org/blog/rate-reform/\">a letter by the advocacy group Children Now\u003c/a> urging the state to implement the recommendations was signed this year by the Service Employees International Union and the California Chamber of Commerce.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Eric Peterson, director of client services and policy, Bananas\"]‘Everybody knows … we can’t pay the true cost of care in a year. The intent is to acknowledge the true cost and find a schedule to get there.’[/pullquote]Asked to comment on the overhaul plan, both the state Department of Finance and the Department of Social Services said the issue is being negotiated with the child care union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No new payment method has been developed yet, though the state this year restarted the working group to advise on overhauling rates. Because the current rates are so low, a new model could be dramatically more expensive for the state. In some cases, providers may have to be paid three or four times what the state currently covers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say it’s possible the state could come up with a new payment method that gradually, over several years, gets the pay closer to providers’ real costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eric Peterson, director of client services and policy at Bananas, an Oakland agency that helps families find child care and subsidies to pay for it, sat on the working group that commissioned the cost report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In nearly three decades in the field, Peterson said, pay for providers “has never been adequate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody knows … we can’t pay the true cost of care in a year,” he said. “The intent is to acknowledge the true cost and find a schedule to get there.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gabriela Guerrero’s children are all grown and have moved out, but the former stay-at-home mom never stopped raising kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The children who attend her home day care in El Centro, in Imperial County near the Mexico border, are as young as 3 months old. Some are the children of farmworkers who drop them off at Guerrero’s house before their shifts in the predawn hours. Nearly all are from families poor enough to qualify for state subsidies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the families can’t afford basic needs, Guerrero said, so the 57-year-old makes sure to provide their children with milk, diapers and sometimes clothes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want the families to go to work knowing that (their children are) well taken care of, and they’re being loved and fed correctly,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guerrero’s labor of love barely earns her a living. After paying two assistants and other costs, she figures she takes home about $3 or $4 an hour. She takes on credit card debt to keep her business going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/fact-sheet/profiles-of-the-california-early-care-and-education-workforce-2020/\">family child care providers — the vast majority of them women of color\u003c/a> — have said they don’t get paid enough by the state of California to cover the costs of their businesses. Their fight for better pay and benefits, a two-decades-old effort, is reaching a fever pitch in California’s capital this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re pressing Gov. Gavin Newsom to raise their pay, and they have the Legislature on their side. Lawmakers put $1 billion for raises in their \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2023/06/california-budget-legislature-2/\">version of a state budget\u003c/a> that they passed last week. That funding remains one of the key differences between Newsom and the Legislature as they hammer out a budget deal before July 1 that accounts for an estimated $32 billion deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The full cost of California child care\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom deemed the child care industry critical to getting parents back to work and recovering the state’s economy from the pandemic. He signed legislation in 2019 allowing home child care providers like Guerrero \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2019/03/unionizing-child-care-workers-california-legislation/\">to unionize and bargain with the state over subsidized child care reimbursement rates\u003c/a>. And the state has issued multiple rounds of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2021/02/child-care-union-secures-covid-19-relief-funding-approval/\">temporary stipends\u003c/a> to providers who lost revenue during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the 40,000-member union representing the home-based providers says Newsom’s administration isn’t offering providers enough to keep them in business long term. The union’s current contract expires in less than two weeks, at the end of June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bargaining for a new one this year, the union has called for a 25% bump in reimbursement rates the state pays to providers who care for low-income families’ kids — and state funding for the union to set up a trust to issue retirement benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953745\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11953745 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman holding a microphone and wearing glasses stands in front of a crowd. She's wearing a yellow shirt.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28.jpg 1568w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/061523-child-care-rally-jah-cm-28-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Guerrero, a family child care provider, speaks to the crowd gathered for the Child Care Providers United rally at the state Capitol in Sacramento on June 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Julie A Hotz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Providers staged a rally with about 2,000 members and supporters at the Capitol last week and plan to set up camp outside the governor’s mansion this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a direct result of their action, providers are gaining ground in negotiations towards pay increases and basic benefits — but we have yet to see a fair and just contract offer from the state,” said Max Arias, chair of the Child Care Providers’ Union, in a statement. “There appears to be no interest in committing to ongoing rate increases or covering the full cost of care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family or home-based providers care for 28% of children who attend licensed facilities in California. Parents also send children to day care centers or state-funded preschools, or pay a family member or friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A stopgap measure\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To some advocates and members of the Legislative Women’s Caucus, even winning the raises would be only a stopgap measure to keep providers in business. The child care industry has \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">experienced a slow recovery\u003c/a> the past three years and still employs 5% fewer people than it did before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study by the UC Berkeley Center for the Study of Child Care Employment.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>They’re pushing the state to move faster to fundamentally overhaul the way it calculates reimbursement rates. Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/legislator-tracker/monique-limon-1979/\">Monique Limón\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Santa Barbara, authored a bill this year directing the state to overhaul the rates and provide the $1 billion raise in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $1 billion in the Legislature’s budget “solves an immediate problem,” she said. “It doesn’t solve the full, 10-year problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/economy/2021/10/california-child-care-worker-shortage/\">state’s reimbursement rates are generally tied to how much providers charge\u003c/a> in the private market — but because many child care providers lower their prices to meet what parents can afford, the rates have ended up artificially low, in \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalWORKs/CCT/CCDD/Rate%20and%20Quality%20Stakeholder%20Workgroup%20Report_August%202022_FINAL%20ADA%20(2).pdf?ver=2022-08-24-081240-333\">a system that a state-commissioned report last year described as a “market failure” (PDF)\u003c/a>. That in turn results in chronic shortages of child care for parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That report, on child care funding in California, was commissioned by a working group the state convened as part of its current contract with the child care union. In the report the national firm Prenatal to Five Fiscal Strategies, found \u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/_files/ugd/8fd549_831af20bfb4142b59fda11194bb908fd.pdf\">California pays some day care owners as little as a quarter of what the service costs (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A new model\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the southern region of the state, where Guerrero lives, the firm estimated it costs a home-based provider like hers more than $39,000 a year to provide quality care for one infant or toddler. The state reimburses about $12,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same report recommended the state adopt a new method for calculating reimbursement rates that is based on real costs like the ones the firm calculated, rather than surveys of day care rates. It has drawn support from both business and labor: \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrennow.org/blog/rate-reform/\">a letter by the advocacy group Children Now\u003c/a> urging the state to implement the recommendations was signed this year by the Service Employees International Union and the California Chamber of Commerce.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11947683/subsidized-child-care-fees-could-be-going-up-in-july-heres-what-to-know\">\u003cem>Read in English\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Durante la pandemia, California dejó de cobrar las cuotas mensuales de varios programas para el cuidado de niños, con el próposito de ayudar a las familias con menos ingresos acceder al cuidado infantil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pero a partir del 30 de septiembre, estos subsidios estatales desaparecerán, lo que significa que estas familias tendrán que pagar mucho más para porder seguir llevando a sus pequeños a la guardería.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anteriormente, las cuotas para las guarderías subvencionadas por el estado iban a regresar el 30 de junio, pero el gobernador Gavin Newsom llegó a un acuerdo la semana pasada para extender hasta el 30 de septiembre el programa de ayuda financiera que ha congelado estas tarifas. Newsom anunció que el estado usará 29.4 millones de dólares para extender esta ayuda a familias de bajos ingresos que necesitan cuidado infantil, pero todavía se desconoce qué pasará después del 30 de septiembre.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Esta es una situación complicada y cambiante, y para complicarla aún más, estos cambios podrían verse frenados por una o varias medidas legales en curso.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Así que si usted o alguien que conoce depende del cuidado infantil subsidiado por el estado, siga leyendo para saber cómo podría verse afectado, qué puede hacer ahora para prepararse para un posible aumento de los costos, y qué están haciendo las autoridades en respuesta a esta situación. Seguiremos actualizando esta guía a medida que sepamos más.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ir directamente a:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#familias\">\u003cstrong>¿Qué pueden hacer ahora las familias si regresan estas cuotas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Por qué está subiendo el costo de las guarderías subvencionadas en California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Desde 1998, las familias que participan en programas de asistencia para el cuidado de niños en California \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/inforesources/calworks-child-care/program-eligibility\">tienen que pagar una cuota mensual\u003c/a>, también llamada copago, la cual es determinada por su nivel de ingresos. Estas cuotas mensuales se conocen como “cuotas familiares”, y van desde $36 a $600 dólares al mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Las ‘cuotas familiares’ son tarifas mensuales que familias tienen que pagar cada mes si es que tienen a sus niños en programas de cuidado infantil subvencionados por el estado de California.[/pullquote]Al inicio de la pandemia, California recibió permiso del gobierno federal para no cobrar las cuotas familiares y dejó de cobrarlas temporalmente a las familias que ya recibían subsidios para las guarderías a tiempo parcial o completo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California pudo detener la recolección de estas cuotas gracias a fondos federales asignados durante la pandemia. Pero esta ayuda del gobierno federal se está agotando. Esto significa que, a partir del 1 de octubre, las familias volverán a tener que aportar las cuotas familiares, a menos que las autoridades estatales tomen acción.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Si regresan las cuotas familiares a partir del 1 de octubre, ¿cuáles familias son las que tendrían que pagar por la guardería?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Las normas federales permiten a los estados \u003ca href=\"https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/family_co-payment_brief_0.pdf#:~:text=While%20the%20definition%20did%20not%20change%2C%20the%20Administration,access%20section%20of%20the%20CCDF%20Final%203%20Rule.\">fijar sus propias cuotas familiares, en función del tamaño de la familia y sus ingresos\u003c/a>, siempre y cuando estas sean asequibles y no se conviertan en un obstáculo para que las familias reciban asistencia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En la actualidad, para tener derecho a una guardería subvencionada por el estado, una familia debe ganar el 85 por ciento o menos del ingreso promedio del estado. En California, esa cantidad sería de 82 mil 102 dólares anuales para una familia de tres miembros, y de 95 mil 289 dólares para una familia de cuatro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quienes ganan menos del 40 por ciento de esa cantidad no pagan nada por la guardería. Las familias que ganan \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CDSS_Famfeeschedule_SubChildCare_FY2022-23.pdf\">entre el 40 por ciento y el 85 por ciento de los ingresos promedios del estado pagan una cuota a la guardería que se calcula según una escala variable\u003c/a>. Esta tarifa puede llegar a ser hasta al 10 por ciento de los ingresos de una familia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sin embargo, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California ha reiterado que las familias que ganan el 39 por ciento o menos de los ingresos medios del estado, y las familias que reciben ayuda CalWORKS, no tendrán que pagar cuotas después del 1 de octubre. Además, las familias que reciben ayuda de los Servicios de Protección Infantil pueden quedar exentas de las cuotas familiares durante otros 12 meses.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\"]Las familias que ganan el 39 por ciento o menos del ingreso promedio estatal, y las familias que reciben ayuda de CalWORKS, no tendrán que pagar cuotas después del 1 de octubre, según funcionarios estatales.[/pullquote]Usted puede utilizar la \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/\">Calculadora de Cuotas Familiares de Cuidado Infantil\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés) del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California para ver cuánto tendría que pagar por cuidado infantil subvencionado, en función del número de personas de su familia y de sus ingresos mensuales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Tiene problemas para calcular los ingresos mensuales de su familia? Puede utilizar \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/FeeRate2021/CalculationWorksheet\">\u003cstrong>esta hoja de cálculo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés), que también proporciona instrucciones sobre cómo sumar con exactitud los ingresos procedentes de trabajos irregulares o estacionales. También encontrará instrucciones sobre cómo incluir otras fuentes de ingresos mensuales, incluidas las ayudas públicas, las prestaciones por discapacidad o desempleo y la manutención por parte de su pareja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los defensores de los programas de educación infantil y guardería recomiendan a los padres que empiecen a ahorrar dinero, si pueden, para prepararse para el posible regreso de las cuotas familiares el 1 de julio. \u003ccite>(Cavan Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"familias\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pueden hacer ahora las familias en medio de esta incertidumbre?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No haga cambios grandes en el cuidado de su hijo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina Buthee, directora ejecutiva de la organización sin fines de lucro \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">EveryChild California\u003c/a>, dice que su mensaje a las familias en este momento es mantenerse firmes en estos momentos, aunque las cosas puedan parecer inciertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No se precipite ni saque a su hijo de ningún programa, independientemente de lo que diga este papel en términos de cuotas”, afirma Buthee, cuya organización defiende los programas de atención y educación infantil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee también cree que es muy probable que el estado reduzca las cuotas, incluso sin el apoyo del gobierno federal, algo por lo que EveryChild California, junto con otros, está abogando. Vea a continuación más información sobre las medidas legales que podrían cambiar la situación de las cuotas familiares en los próximos meses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahorre lo que pueda ante el posible retorno de las cuotas familiares\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee recomienda que si su familia puede “ahorrar algo de dinero”, lo haga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y mientras ahorra, si es que puede, “sepa que hay activistas y legisladores que están trabajando muy, muy duro para asegurarse de que las cuotas familiares queden exentas al menos hasta el 1 de octubre, y además, esperamos conseguir que se reduzcan durante el resto del año”, dijo Buthee.[aside postID=\"news_11941448\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/FARMWORKETS-SHOVELING-DIRT-YELLOW-RAINGEAR.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Asegúrese de que su familia está recibiendo todas las prestaciones a las que califica\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si su hogar \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">califica para recibir estampillas de comida de CalFresh\u003c/a>, asegúrese de que está recibiendo los fondos a los que tiene derecho. Si sus ingresos han disminuido o sus gastos han aumentado este año, puede solicitar más fondos. Si esta es su situación, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/county-offices\">póngase en contacto con su oficina local de servicios sociales\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshOutreach/Brochures/Income_Inserts_FFY2023-English.pdf?ver=2022-09-27-105231-437\">Consulte los requisitos de ingresos y las asignaciones mensuales máximas de CalFresh\u003c/a> vigentes hasta el 30 de septiembre de 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Si está recibiendo su asignación completa de CalFresh y tiene problemas para conseguir alimentos, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do#foodsupport\">consulte nuestra lista de fuentes alternativas de asistencia alimentaria, incluidos bancos de alimentos \u003c/a>(enlace disponible sólo en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>También tenga en cuenta que si su familia utiliza Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944543/on-medi-cal-eligibility-changes-starting-in-april-could-mean-you-lose-coverage-heres-what-to-do\">a partir de abril tendrá que volver a certificar su elegibilidad para mantener su cobertura de Medi-Cal\u003c/a>, lo cual ocurre por primera vez desde que comenzó la pandemia. Asegúrese de que su oficina local de servicios sociales tenga su información de contacto más actualizada, especialmente si se ha mudado durante la pandemia.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>¿Qué podría cambiar la situación con las cuotas familiares?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>De momento, el gobernador Gavin Newsom no ha incluido una propuesta para mantener las cuota familiar congeladas en su presupuesto para 2023-2024. Pero hay dos medidas legales en marcha que podrían cambiar esta situación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La primera es a nivel estatal: La líder de la Asamblea de California, Eloise Gómez Reyes, \u003ca href=\"https://a50.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230209-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-and-senator-senator-limon-introduce-child\">propone suspender el cobro de estas cuotas hasta que el estado implemente un nuevo sistema de tarifas más equitativo\u003c/a>. Su legislación también abordaría la forma en que se reembolsa a los trabajadores de guarderías por proporcionar cuidados subvencionados.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']En cuanto a la situación actual de esta legislación, fue aprobada por unanimidad por la Comisión de Servicios Humanos de la Asamblea el mes pasado y ahora se está estudiando en la Comisión de Educación.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes dijo a KQED que las familias de California están pagando “hasta el 25 por ciento de sus ingresos” en estas cuotas y afirma que estas familias ya han demostrado que cumplen con los requisitos para recibir cuidado infantil subsidiado. “Y sin embargo estamos diciendo, sí, usted tiene que pagar casi $600 dólares al mes para el cuidado de su niño”, dijo Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El año pasado, Newsom vetó un proyecto de ley de Reyes \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">para reducir las cuotas a partir del 1 de julio\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La segunda gran novedad que podría afectar a las cuotas familiares es que el 18 de abril, el Presidente Joe Biden firmó \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/18/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-most-sweeping-set-of-executive-actions-to-improve-care-in-history/\">una serie de órdenes ejecutivas destinadas a mejorar el acceso a la cuidado infantil\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Una de las órdenes de Biden dirige al Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de EE.UU. que estudie medidas para reducir o eliminar las cuotas para las familias que ya reciben ayuda financiera del programa federal ‘Child Care and Development Block Grant’ (CCDBG, por sus siglas en inglés).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee, de EveryChild California, dijo que la orden ejecutiva de Biden anima a los estados a no imponer cuotas a quienes ganan el 75 por ciento o menos de la renta familiar media del estado. En el caso de las familias que ganen más del 75 por ciento, seguirán pagando las cuotas según una escala variable, pero la orden de Biden establece que las cuotas no superen el 7 por ciento de los ingresos familiares. Esto se debe a que el gobierno federal ha determinado que las guarderías que cuestan más del 7 por ciento del presupuesto familiar no son asequibles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947683\" label=\"Read this story in English\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680-1.jpg\"]El motivo por el que la orden ejecutiva de Biden es tan importante es que el reloj sigue corriendo en California: a fines de abril, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales y el Departamento de Educación del estado enviaron a los proveedores la nueva tabla de cuotas familiares que entraría en vigor a partir del 1 de julio (cuando comienza el nuevo año fiscal en California) porque las familias necesitan al menos un preaviso de 60 días. Dicho esto, aún no está claro cuándo podría cambiar el gobierno federal las normas relativas a estas cuotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los defensores del cuidado infantil en California y legisladores como Reyes han instado al estado a solicitar una prórroga federal para continuar eximiendo las cuotas hasta el 30 de septiembre, utilizando los fondos no gastados de la Ley de Asignaciones Suplementarias de Respuesta y Alivio del Coronavirus, que originalmente permitió la exención de tarifas familiares. Esto daría al estado más tiempo hasta que comience el año fiscal federal el 1 de octubre, cuando se espera que el gobierno federal cambie las regulaciones de los programas de cuidado de niños como el CCDBG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 25 de abril, un portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California dijo a KQED en un correo electrónico que “actualmente, California no tiene una propuesta o solicitud pendiente con el gobierno federal en relación con las cuotas familiares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen, es cuestión de esperar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una actualización:\u003c/strong> El 26 de abril, el Senado estatal señaló su apoyo al proyecto de Reyes al incluir en su propuesta la financiación del \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Protect%20Our%20Progress%20Senate%20Budget%20Plan.pdf\">presupuesto 2023-24\u003c/a> para revisar la estructura de cuotas familiares “para evitar que las familias de bajos ingresos pierdan el acceso al cuidado infantil porque no pueden pagar las cuotas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Si regresan las cuotas familiares, ¿cómo se verían afectadas las familias californianas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California, Scott Murray, dijo a CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2022/10/subsidized-child-care/\">que más de 26 mil familias en varios programas de asistencia de cuidado infantil pueden haberse beneficiado de las exenciones de cuotas familiares en el año fiscal 2021-22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una encuesta realizada en 2023 por EveryChild California a padres y tutores con hijos en guarderías subvencionadas por el estado, el 56 por ciento de los encuestados afirmó que no podrían mantener a sus hijos en su programa actual si se llegaran a restablecer las cuotas familiares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Church, madre soltera de San Francisco que trabaja en el sector de atención al cliente, dice que depende de una guardería subvencionada para poder cuidar a su hijo de 6 años. Antes de la pandemia, pagaba 200 dólares al mes por las cuotas familiares de la guardería. “Tengo estampillas de comida y trabajo tiempo completo, y sólo tengo lo suficiente para llegar a fin de mes, vivo de cheque en cheque, la cuota familiar sería una carga”, dijo Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando he tenido que pagar, es todo un reto tener que hacer ese pago, incluso con un horario a tiempo completo”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener que volver a pagar las cuotas “nos dejaría definitivamente, yo creo, sin comida”, dijo Church. “Es lo primero que se me viene a la mente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "Las familias que ganan el 39 por ciento o menos del ingreso promedio estatal, y las familias que reciben ayuda de CalWORKS, no tendrán que pagar cuotas después del 1 de octubre, según funcionarios estatales.",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Usted puede utilizar la \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/\">Calculadora de Cuotas Familiares de Cuidado Infantil\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés) del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California para ver cuánto tendría que pagar por cuidado infantil subvencionado, en función del número de personas de su familia y de sus ingresos mensuales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>¿Tiene problemas para calcular los ingresos mensuales de su familia? Puede utilizar \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/FeeRate2021/CalculationWorksheet\">\u003cstrong>esta hoja de cálculo\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> (enlace disponible sólo en inglés), que también proporciona instrucciones sobre cómo sumar con exactitud los ingresos procedentes de trabajos irregulares o estacionales. También encontrará instrucciones sobre cómo incluir otras fuentes de ingresos mensuales, incluidas las ayudas públicas, las prestaciones por discapacidad o desempleo y la manutención por parte de su pareja.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948805\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/dad-with-daughter-on-dark-couch-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los defensores de los programas de educación infantil y guardería recomiendan a los padres que empiecen a ahorrar dinero, si pueden, para prepararse para el posible regreso de las cuotas familiares el 1 de julio. \u003ccite>(Cavan Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003ca id=\"familias\">\u003c/a>¿Qué pueden hacer ahora las familias en medio de esta incertidumbre?\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No haga cambios grandes en el cuidado de su hijo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina Buthee, directora ejecutiva de la organización sin fines de lucro \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">EveryChild California\u003c/a>, dice que su mensaje a las familias en este momento es mantenerse firmes en estos momentos, aunque las cosas puedan parecer inciertas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No se precipite ni saque a su hijo de ningún programa, independientemente de lo que diga este papel en términos de cuotas”, afirma Buthee, cuya organización defiende los programas de atención y educación infantil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee también cree que es muy probable que el estado reduzca las cuotas, incluso sin el apoyo del gobierno federal, algo por lo que EveryChild California, junto con otros, está abogando. Vea a continuación más información sobre las medidas legales que podrían cambiar la situación de las cuotas familiares en los próximos meses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ahorre lo que pueda ante el posible retorno de las cuotas familiares\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee recomienda que si su familia puede “ahorrar algo de dinero”, lo haga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Y mientras ahorra, si es que puede, “sepa que hay activistas y legisladores que están trabajando muy, muy duro para asegurarse de que las cuotas familiares queden exentas al menos hasta el 1 de octubre, y además, esperamos conseguir que se reduzcan durante el resto del año”, dijo Buthee.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>El motivo por el que la orden ejecutiva de Biden es tan importante es que el reloj sigue corriendo en California: a fines de abril, el Departamento de Servicios Sociales y el Departamento de Educación del estado enviaron a los proveedores la nueva tabla de cuotas familiares que entraría en vigor a partir del 1 de julio (cuando comienza el nuevo año fiscal en California) porque las familias necesitan al menos un preaviso de 60 días. Dicho esto, aún no está claro cuándo podría cambiar el gobierno federal las normas relativas a estas cuotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mientras tanto, los defensores del cuidado infantil en California y legisladores como Reyes han instado al estado a solicitar una prórroga federal para continuar eximiendo las cuotas hasta el 30 de septiembre, utilizando los fondos no gastados de la Ley de Asignaciones Suplementarias de Respuesta y Alivio del Coronavirus, que originalmente permitió la exención de tarifas familiares. Esto daría al estado más tiempo hasta que comience el año fiscal federal el 1 de octubre, cuando se espera que el gobierno federal cambie las regulaciones de los programas de cuidado de niños como el CCDBG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El 25 de abril, un portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California dijo a KQED en un correo electrónico que “actualmente, California no tiene una propuesta o solicitud pendiente con el gobierno federal en relación con las cuotas familiares.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En resumen, es cuestión de esperar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Una actualización:\u003c/strong> El 26 de abril, el Senado estatal señaló su apoyo al proyecto de Reyes al incluir en su propuesta la financiación del \u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Protect%20Our%20Progress%20Senate%20Budget%20Plan.pdf\">presupuesto 2023-24\u003c/a> para revisar la estructura de cuotas familiares “para evitar que las familias de bajos ingresos pierdan el acceso al cuidado infantil porque no pueden pagar las cuotas”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Si regresan las cuotas familiares, ¿cómo se verían afectadas las familias californianas?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>El portavoz del Departamento de Servicios Sociales de California, Scott Murray, dijo a CalMatters \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2022/10/subsidized-child-care/\">que más de 26 mil familias en varios programas de asistencia de cuidado infantil pueden haberse beneficiado de las exenciones de cuotas familiares en el año fiscal 2021-22\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En una encuesta realizada en 2023 por EveryChild California a padres y tutores con hijos en guarderías subvencionadas por el estado, el 56 por ciento de los encuestados afirmó que no podrían mantener a sus hijos en su programa actual si se llegaran a restablecer las cuotas familiares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Church, madre soltera de San Francisco que trabaja en el sector de atención al cliente, dice que depende de una guardería subvencionada para poder cuidar a su hijo de 6 años. Antes de la pandemia, pagaba 200 dólares al mes por las cuotas familiares de la guardería. “Tengo estampillas de comida y trabajo tiempo completo, y sólo tengo lo suficiente para llegar a fin de mes, vivo de cheque en cheque, la cuota familiar sería una carga”, dijo Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuando he tenido que pagar, es todo un reto tener que hacer ese pago, incluso con un horario a tiempo completo”, dijo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tener que volver a pagar las cuotas “nos dejaría definitivamente, yo creo, sin comida”, dijo Church. “Es lo primero que se me viene a la mente”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y editado por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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That aid, however, is running out and the fee waiver is set to expire on June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This means that starting July 1, families will once again have to pay this co-payment — \u003ca href=\"#familyfeespossiblechange\">unless the state extends the fee waiver, or changes the law around family fees\u003c/a>.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If child care fees return on July 1, which families would have to pay?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Federal rules allow states to \u003ca href=\"https://childcareta.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/family_co-payment_brief_0.pdf#:~:text=While%20the%20definition%20did%20not%20change%2C%20the%20Administration,access%20section%20of%20the%20CCDF%20Final%203%20Rule.\">set their own fees based on family size and income (PDF)\u003c/a>, so long as they’re affordable and don’t become a barrier to families receiving assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, to qualify for state-subsidized child care, a family must earn 85% or less of the state median household income. That’s an annual income of $82,102 for a family of three, and a $95,289 annual income for a family of four.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who earn less than 40% of that amount pay nothing for child care. Families earning \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/CDSS_Famfeeschedule_SubChildCare_FY2022-23.pdf\">between 40% and 85% of the state median income pay child care fees on a sliding scale (PDF)\u003c/a> that could be as much as 10% of their household income.[pullquote size='medium' align='right']Families who earn 39% or below of the state median income, and families who receive CalWORKS cash aid, will not be required to pay fees after July 1, according to state officials.[/pullquote]The California Department of Social Services has reiterated, however, that families who earn 39% or below of the state median income, and families who receive CalWORKS cash aid, will not be required to pay fees after July 1. Families that are involved in Child Protective Services can have their family fees waived for another 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use the California Department of Social Service’s \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/\">Child Care Family Fee Rate Calculator\u003c/a> to see how much the monthly co-payment for state-subsidized child care would be, based on the number of people in your family and your monthly income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having trouble calculating your family’s monthly income? You can use \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/FeeRate2021/CalculationWorksheet\">this calculation worksheet\u003c/a>, which also provides instructions for how to accurately add up income from irregular or seasonal work. You’ll also find instructions on how to include other sources of monthly income, including public assistance, disability or unemployment benefits and spousal support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947673 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A father sits with his infant daughter on a couch. The father kisses his daughter on the forehead and the daughter smiles at the camera.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates for child care and early education programs are recommending that parents start saving money, if they can, to prepare for the potential return of family fees on July 1. \u003ccite>(Cavan Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"prepare\">\u003c/a>What can families do right now amid this uncertainty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t make any big changes regarding your child’s care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina Buthee, executive director of nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">EveryChild California\u003c/a>, says her message to families right now is “definitely hang in there” and sit tight — even though things may feel insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t make any rash movement or move your child out of any program whatsoever, regardless of what this piece of paper says in terms of fees,” said Buthee, whose organization advocates for early care and education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee also believes it is very likely the state will reduce the fees, even without the support from the federal government — something EveryChild California, with others, is advocating for. See below for \u003ca href=\"#familyfeespossiblechange\">more information on the legal measures that could change the family fee situation in the next few months\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider saving what money you can to prepare for the potential return of family fees\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee recommends that if your family is able to “save some money,” you should do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while you’re saving — if you’re able — “know that advocates and the Legislature are working very, very hard to make sure that family fees are waived at least until October 1 — and in addition, we’re hoping to get those reduced for the rest of the year,” said Buthee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make sure your family is getting all the benefits you’re entitled to\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your household \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">is eligible to receive CalFresh food benefits\u003c/a>, make sure you’re getting the funds you’re entitled to. You could qualify for more funds, especially if your income has gone down or your expenses have gone up. If this is your situation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/county-offices\">contact your local social services office\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalFreshOutreach/Brochures/Income_Inserts_FFY2023-English.pdf?ver=2022-09-27-105231-437\">See the income thresholds and maximum CalFresh monthly allotments (PDF)\u003c/a> currently in effect through Sept. 30, 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11943420\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/03/GettyImages-1144627849-1020x680.jpg\"]If you’re getting your full CalFresh allotment and are having problems securing food for your family now that the extra monthly pandemic payments have gone away, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do#foodsupport\">consult our list of alternative food assistance sources, including food banks and grocery box options\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also be aware that if your family uses Medi-Cal, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944543/on-medi-cal-eligibility-changes-starting-in-april-could-mean-you-lose-coverage-heres-what-to-do\">as of April you’ll need to recertify your eligibility to keep your Medi-Cal coverage\u003c/a> for the first time since the pandemic began. Make sure your local social services office has your most up-to-date contact information, especially if you’ve moved during the pandemic. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11944543/on-medi-cal-eligibility-changes-starting-in-april-could-mean-you-lose-coverage-heres-what-to-do\">Read more about how to make sure you keep your Medi-Cal coverage.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"familyfeespossiblechange\">\u003c/a>What might change the situation with family fees?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Right now, Gov. Gavin Newsom has not included a proposal to continue waiving the family fee in his 2023–2024 budget. But there are two legal measures in the works that could change this situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first is at the state level: California Assembly Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes \u003ca href=\"https://a50.asmdc.org/press-releases/20230209-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-and-senator-senator-limon-introduce-child\">proposes to suspend collecting these fees until the state implements an equitable sliding scale\u003c/a>. This legislation would also address the way child care workers get reimbursed for providing subsidized care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for where this legislation currently stands, it was passed unanimously by the Assembly Committee on Human Services last month and is now being considered in the Committee on Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11941863\" hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63080_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-121-qut-1-1020x678.jpg\"]Reyes told KQED that California families are paying “up to 25% of their income” on these co-payments — families that have proven they meet the income thresholds to receive subsidized child care in the first place. “And yet we’re saying, yes, but you have to pay almost $600 a month per child to have your child taken care of,” said Reyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A previous bill by Reyes \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB92\">to lower the fees outright starting July 1\u003c/a> was vetoed by Newsom last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second big development that could affect family fees is that on April 18, President Joe Biden signed \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/04/18/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-announces-most-sweeping-set-of-executive-actions-to-improve-care-in-history/\">a series of executive orders aimed at improving access to child care\u003c/a> — and they include directing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to consider actions to reduce or eliminate co-payments for families benefiting from the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee of EveryChild California said the executive order is encouraging states to not impose fees upon those who earn 75% or less of the state median household income. For families who are above the 75th percentile, family fees would still be paid on a sliding scale — but Biden’s order states that the fees cannot exceed 7% of their household income. That’s because the federal government determined that child care that costs more than 7% of a household budget is considered unaffordable.[aside label='More Explainers from KQED' tag='kqed-guides']The reason Biden’s executive order is so significant is that the clock is ticking in California: Last week, the state Department of Social Services and the Department of Education issued to providers the new family fee schedule that would go into effect starting July 1 (when California’s new fiscal year begins) because families need at least a 60-day notice. That said, it’s still unclear when the federal government could change the rules regarding these co-payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, California child care advocates and lawmakers like Reyes have urged the state to request a federal extension to continue waiving the fees until Sept. 30, using any unspent funding from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, which originally enabled the family fee waiver. This would buy the state more time until the federal fiscal year begins on October 1, when the U.S. government may change the regulation regarding fees associated with child care programs such as the CCDBG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 25, a spokesperson for the California Department of Social Services told KQED in an email that “[c]urrently, California does not have a pending proposal or request with the federal government regarding family fees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, it’s a waiting game. One update: On Wednesday, the state Senate signaled its support for Reyes’ bill by including in its\u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Protect%20Our%20Progress%20Senate%20Budget%20Plan.pdf\"> 2023-24 budget proposal\u003c/a> funding to overhaul the family fee structure “to prevent low-income families from losing access to child care because they cannot afford fees”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If these fees return, how would California families be affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Department of Social Services spokesperson Scott Murray told CalMatters that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2022/10/subsidized-child-care/\">more than 26,000 families in various child care assistance programs “may have benefited from family fee waivers in the 2021-22 fiscal year.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2023 survey from EveryChild California of parents and guardians with children enrolled in state-subsidized child care, 56% of respondents said they would not be able to keep their child in their current program if family fees were reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Church, a single parent in San Francisco who works in customer service, depends on state-subsidized child care for her 6-year-old. She shared that before the pandemic, she was paying $200 a month on child care family fees. “I have food stamps and I work full time, and just making ends meet and living paycheck to paycheck, the family fee does become a burden,” said Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I have had to pay, it’s really, really challenging, even with a full-time schedule, having to make that payment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to pay fees again “would definitely leave us without, I would think, food,” said Church. “Like, that’s the first thing that comes to mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The California Department of Social Services has reiterated, however, that families who earn 39% or below of the state median income, and families who receive CalWORKS cash aid, will not be required to pay fees after July 1. Families that are involved in Child Protective Services can have their family fees waived for another 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can use the California Department of Social Service’s \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/\">Child Care Family Fee Rate Calculator\u003c/a> to see how much the monthly co-payment for state-subsidized child care would be, based on the number of people in your family and your monthly income.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having trouble calculating your family’s monthly income? You can use \u003ca href=\"https://ccffrc.ccdd.dss.ca.gov/FeeRate2021/CalculationWorksheet\">this calculation worksheet\u003c/a>, which also provides instructions for how to accurately add up income from irregular or seasonal work. You’ll also find instructions on how to include other sources of monthly income, including public assistance, disability or unemployment benefits and spousal support.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947673\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11947673 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A father sits with his infant daughter on a couch. The father kisses his daughter on the forehead and the daughter smiles at the camera.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1709\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/GettyImages-1202273101-1-1920x1282.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advocates for child care and early education programs are recommending that parents start saving money, if they can, to prepare for the potential return of family fees on July 1. \u003ccite>(Cavan Images/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"prepare\">\u003c/a>What can families do right now amid this uncertainty?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Don’t make any big changes regarding your child’s care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina Buthee, executive director of nonprofit organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.everychildca.org/\">EveryChild California\u003c/a>, says her message to families right now is “definitely hang in there” and sit tight — even though things may feel insecure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t make any rash movement or move your child out of any program whatsoever, regardless of what this piece of paper says in terms of fees,” said Buthee, whose organization advocates for early care and education programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee also believes it is very likely the state will reduce the fees, even without the support from the federal government — something EveryChild California, with others, is advocating for. See below for \u003ca href=\"#familyfeespossiblechange\">more information on the legal measures that could change the family fee situation in the next few months\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Consider saving what money you can to prepare for the potential return of family fees\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buthee recommends that if your family is able to “save some money,” you should do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while you’re saving — if you’re able — “know that advocates and the Legislature are working very, very hard to make sure that family fees are waived at least until October 1 — and in addition, we’re hoping to get those reduced for the rest of the year,” said Buthee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Make sure your family is getting all the benefits you’re entitled to\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If your household \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11943420/your-calfresh-benefits-will-drop-in-april-heres-what-you-can-do\">is eligible to receive CalFresh food benefits\u003c/a>, make sure you’re getting the funds you’re entitled to. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The reason Biden’s executive order is so significant is that the clock is ticking in California: Last week, the state Department of Social Services and the Department of Education issued to providers the new family fee schedule that would go into effect starting July 1 (when California’s new fiscal year begins) because families need at least a 60-day notice. That said, it’s still unclear when the federal government could change the rules regarding these co-payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, California child care advocates and lawmakers like Reyes have urged the state to request a federal extension to continue waiving the fees until Sept. 30, using any unspent funding from the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, which originally enabled the family fee waiver. This would buy the state more time until the federal fiscal year begins on October 1, when the U.S. government may change the regulation regarding fees associated with child care programs such as the CCDBG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 25, a spokesperson for the California Department of Social Services told KQED in an email that “[c]urrently, California does not have a pending proposal or request with the federal government regarding family fees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In short, it’s a waiting game. One update: On Wednesday, the state Senate signaled its support for Reyes’ bill by including in its\u003ca href=\"https://sbud.senate.ca.gov/sites/sbud.senate.ca.gov/files/Protect%20Our%20Progress%20Senate%20Budget%20Plan.pdf\"> 2023-24 budget proposal\u003c/a> funding to overhaul the family fee structure “to prevent low-income families from losing access to child care because they cannot afford fees”.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>If these fees return, how would California families be affected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California Department of Social Services spokesperson Scott Murray told CalMatters that \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/children-and-youth/2022/10/subsidized-child-care/\">more than 26,000 families in various child care assistance programs “may have benefited from family fee waivers in the 2021-22 fiscal year.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2023 survey from EveryChild California of parents and guardians with children enrolled in state-subsidized child care, 56% of respondents said they would not be able to keep their child in their current program if family fees were reinstated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rachel Church, a single parent in San Francisco who works in customer service, depends on state-subsidized child care for her 6-year-old. She shared that before the pandemic, she was paying $200 a month on child care family fees. “I have food stamps and I work full time, and just making ends meet and living paycheck to paycheck, the family fee does become a burden,” said Church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I have had to pay, it’s really, really challenging, even with a full-time schedule, having to make that payment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having to pay fees again “would definitely leave us without, I would think, food,” said Church. “Like, that’s the first thing that comes to mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Every day, Annette Nicholson opens her door as early as 6 a.m. to welcome 10 kids into the child care business she runs out of her home in Stockton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson lives on the north edge of town, where child care options are slim for working families. The parents who rely on her mostly work irregular hours, or need to drop off their kids early to commute long distances to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some leave babies as young as 6 weeks old with her. Some have even called her in tears, pleading with her to take care of a sick child because they can’t afford to miss work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the day, Nicholson reads to the preschool-age children, plays with them, watches over their naps and cooks eggs, oatmeal and other hot meals for everyone until the last child gets picked up around 8 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works long hours, yet barely gets by. At 62, Nicholson doesn’t have enough savings to retire because she has been underpaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People still kind of see us as, I’ll say, babysitters, that’s really how people look at us,” Nicholson said. “We are actually the ones that are developing our next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care is a labor-intensive and essential service, yet people in the child care industry are some of the lowest-paid workers. The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley found that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CSCCE-Early-Educator-Compensation-California.pdf\">home-based providers make as little as $16,200 per year (PDF)\u003c/a> — that’s less than what\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/animal-care-and-service-workers.htm\"> a dog trainer makes\u003c/a>. Like Nicholson, nearly all are women of color and many are immigrants, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker in a rainbow T-shirt helps a little boy in a red T-shirt untie a knot in his black sneaker laces.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, helps a child with a knot in his shoe at the day care Nicholson operates from her home in Stockton on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicholson follows a strict set of licensing requirements, such as meeting appropriate adult-to-child ratios in addition to meeting fire safety codes, sanitary food preparation standards and other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also serves a wide demographic of families who pay private tuition, as well as lower-income families who receive public subsidies for child care. Still, those subsidies don’t adequately cover the cost of operating a licensed child care business, according to Nicholson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provide all the meals, the location, toys, the assistant, the education piece, the tools to go with that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The providers who care for the most marginalized children in California are paid at reimbursement rates based on \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-child-care-providers-need-a-substantial-pay-raise/\">outdated prices\u003c/a> from at least five years ago that neither reflect the true cost of care nor keep pace with the cost of sustaining a business, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent study commissioned by the state found \u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/californiacostmodelreport2022\">the rates meet only 25% to 30% of the current costs to provide child care\u003c/a>. Yet, U.S. Department of Labor data shows parents are paying between \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/wb/wb20230124\">8% and 19%\u003c/a> of their median income for child care either at a home-based program or a center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg\" alt=\"A residential neighborhood with track homes and a cul-de-sac is pictured. Cars are parked in driveways and it's a sunny day.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaga’s House, a day care run by Annette Nicholson at her home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lack of available and affordable child care leads many parents of young children to leave their jobs. Economists call the \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-Economics-of-Childcare-Supply-09-14-final.pdf\">untenable situation a market failure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providers like Nicholson find themselves filling the gap between what parents can afford — and what the government pays for child care. Oftentimes, parents will take on credit card debt to make ends meet. Nicholson said she’s even dipped into her own savings to fix a fence that was damaged by a storm, so the children can play safely in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stagnant, meager wages are driving a \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">shortage of early educators\u003c/a>, causing child care centers to sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928111/teacher-shortages-force-dozens-of-california-preschools-to-close-classrooms\">close classrooms\u003c/a> when they don’t have enough staff to meet the adult-to-child ratio. For example, a study in Contra Costa County found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5coco.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Contra-Costa-County-Opportunity-Gap-For-Children-3-30-2023-FINAL.pdf\">90 child care sites permanently closed\u003c/a> during the pandemic, leading to even longer waitlists for subsidized care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11948316 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/040_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state tried to respond to the demand for child care by adding 200,000 new slots for lower-income families by 2025–26 — more than doubling what had been previously available. So far, the state has only filled about 146,000 of them. The situation prompted Gov. Gavin Newsom to propose \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4672\">delaying funding for 20,000 additional slots\u003c/a> to help balance the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child advocates said the problem isn’t because families don’t need public assistance for child care. It’s because there aren’t enough workers or licensed facilities to fill the slots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s urgent that we take care of this now because, as many of our advocates have said, care can’t wait,” Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes told KQED. Reyes is asking lawmakers to bump up the reimbursement rate for providers of subsidized child care — essentially giving them a raise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re taking care of the most precious people in our lives, and yet we are not paying them enough to keep their doors open,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reyes said the increase will at least keep pace with the cost of living and stabilize the workforce, especially as federal pandemic aid dries up. Democrats in the state Senate agree and have proposed hiking certain business taxes to pay child care providers. A spokesperson for Newsom, however, told KQED that he won’t support the tax increases.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assembly Majority Leader Eloise Gómez Reyes\"]‘They’re taking care of the most precious people in our lives, and yet we are not paying them enough to keep their doors open.’[/pullquote]Child Care Providers United, the union representing some 40,000 home-based child care workers in California, is going one step further. It wants an overhaul of the rate reimbursement system, to more accurately reflect the true cost of providing quality care and offer early educators a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a work group convened by the state to assess that system concluded “the chronic undervaluing of ‘women’s work’ and racial bias against women of color” contributed to the low rates for early educators. 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So now you won’t pay them well … you’re getting free labor almost (from them),” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she hopes to see potential reform that recognizes her important role in nurturing young children during the most critical period of their brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt='An at-home child care worker hugs a little kid next to the book, \"Danny and the Dinosaur.\" A shelf filled with baskets of colorful toys are to the left.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, hugs one of the children at the day care that she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She used to work as an administrator for Kaiser Permanente before deciding some 16 years ago to apply for a license and care for children inside her suburban tract home. She said her hospital job wasn’t fulfilling, and she wanted to return to her roots — helping her mother with her home-based child care business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she has reached a stage where she’s caring for the children of people she helped raise many years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to not only take good care of kids, you’ve got to love kids ’cause kids can wear you down,” she said. “You have to love them even more, to know that you’re not going to get what you deserve at doing this job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She works long hours, yet barely gets by. At 62, Nicholson doesn’t have enough savings to retire because she has been underpaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People still kind of see us as, I’ll say, babysitters, that’s really how people look at us,” Nicholson said. “We are actually the ones that are developing our next generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Child care is a labor-intensive and essential service, yet people in the child care industry are some of the lowest-paid workers. The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley found that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CSCCE-Early-Educator-Compensation-California.pdf\">home-based providers make as little as $16,200 per year (PDF)\u003c/a> — that’s less than what\u003ca href=\"https://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/animal-care-and-service-workers.htm\"> a dog trainer makes\u003c/a>. Like Nicholson, nearly all are women of color and many are immigrants, the study found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker in a rainbow T-shirt helps a little boy in a red T-shirt untie a knot in his black sneaker laces.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64832_017_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, helps a child with a knot in his shoe at the day care Nicholson operates from her home in Stockton on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nicholson follows a strict set of licensing requirements, such as meeting appropriate adult-to-child ratios in addition to meeting fire safety codes, sanitary food preparation standards and other requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also serves a wide demographic of families who pay private tuition, as well as lower-income families who receive public subsidies for child care. Still, those subsidies don’t adequately cover the cost of operating a licensed child care business, according to Nicholson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We provide all the meals, the location, toys, the assistant, the education piece, the tools to go with that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The providers who care for the most marginalized children in California are paid at reimbursement rates based on \u003ca href=\"https://calbudgetcenter.org/resources/californias-child-care-providers-need-a-substantial-pay-raise/\">outdated prices\u003c/a> from at least five years ago that neither reflect the true cost of care nor keep pace with the cost of sustaining a business, according to an analysis by the California Budget and Policy Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An independent study commissioned by the state found \u003ca href=\"https://www.prenatal5fiscal.org/californiacostmodelreport2022\">the rates meet only 25% to 30% of the current costs to provide child care\u003c/a>. Yet, U.S. Department of Labor data shows parents are paying between \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/wb/wb20230124\">8% and 19%\u003c/a> of their median income for child care either at a home-based program or a center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg\" alt=\"A residential neighborhood with track homes and a cul-de-sac is pictured. Cars are parked in driveways and it's a sunny day.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/030_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gaga’s House, a day care run by Annette Nicholson at her home at the end of a cul-de-sac in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lack of available and affordable child care leads many parents of young children to leave their jobs. Economists call the \u003ca href=\"https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/136/The-Economics-of-Childcare-Supply-09-14-final.pdf\">untenable situation a market failure\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Providers like Nicholson find themselves filling the gap between what parents can afford — and what the government pays for child care. Oftentimes, parents will take on credit card debt to make ends meet. Nicholson said she’s even dipped into her own savings to fix a fence that was damaged by a storm, so the children can play safely in her backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stagnant, meager wages are driving a \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">shortage of early educators\u003c/a>, causing child care centers to sometimes \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11928111/teacher-shortages-force-dozens-of-california-preschools-to-close-classrooms\">close classrooms\u003c/a> when they don’t have enough staff to meet the adult-to-child ratio. For example, a study in Contra Costa County found that \u003ca href=\"https://www.first5coco.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Contra-Costa-County-Opportunity-Gap-For-Children-3-30-2023-FINAL.pdf\">90 child care sites permanently closed\u003c/a> during the pandemic, leading to even longer waitlists for subsidized care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Child Care Providers United, the union representing some 40,000 home-based child care workers in California, is going one step further. It wants an overhaul of the rate reimbursement system, to more accurately reflect the true cost of providing quality care and offer early educators a living wage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, a work group convened by the state to assess that system concluded “the chronic undervaluing of ‘women’s work’ and racial bias against women of color” contributed to the low rates for early educators. Their \u003ca href=\"https://cdss.ca.gov/Portals/9/CalWORKs/CCT/CCDD/Rate%20and%20Quality%20Stakeholder%20Workgroup%20Report_August%202022_FINAL%20ADA%20(2).pdf?ver=2022-08-24-081240-333\">report traces the pay inequities to America’s slavery past (PDF)\u003c/a>, when Black domestic servants cared for the children of white families for little or no pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948548\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948548\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An at-home child care worker sits on a chair with children surrounding her who sit on a brown carpet. The worker is reading a story from a blue-colored story book about dinosaurs.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64826_009_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, reads a book to the children at the day care she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If we were a male-dominated workforce, you wouldn’t even try to be this disrespectful with giving us a livable wage,” said LaWanda Wesley, a former early educator and advocate with Black Californians United for Early Care and Education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So these women of color … some of them are 67 years old, don’t have health benefits and have to work year-round. So now you won’t pay them well … you’re getting free labor almost (from them),” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicholson said she hopes to see potential reform that recognizes her important role in nurturing young children during the most critical period of their brain development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948549\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948549\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg\" alt='An at-home child care worker hugs a little kid next to the book, \"Danny and the Dinosaur.\" A shelf filled with baskets of colorful toys are to the left.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64827_014_KQED_AnnetteNicholsonDaycare_04272023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annette Nicholson, also known as Gaga, hugs one of the children at the day care that she operates from her home in Stockton, on April 27, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She used to work as an administrator for Kaiser Permanente before deciding some 16 years ago to apply for a license and care for children inside her suburban tract home. 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"content": "\u003cp>The doorbell at Yolanda Thomas’ house in Pittsburg set off a flurry of sound: a barking dog, the high-pitched voices of children and Thomas’ hurried footsteps as she made her way to the door and opened it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She flashed a big smile, her face framed by long braids. She wore black workout pants and a purple T-shirt with “Child Care” written on the front, the two Cs intersecting like the Chanel logo.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Elena Montoya, lead researcher, CSCCE\"]'Until we're really willing to acknowledge that the system is funded through these really low wages that these mostly women of color make in our state, and until we're willing to address that, programs are going to continue to struggle to hire people.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs on the front door explained COVID-19 safety protocols for washing hands and wearing masks. Inside, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdss.ca.gov/cdssweb/entres/forms/English/pub394L.pdf\">a list of parents’ rights (PDF)\u003c/a> from the California Department of Social Services hung next to a giant collage of kid photos. Binders overflowing with lesson plans sat on a shelf next to a portable crib.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas, 46, is one of nearly 25,000 family child care providers in the state who operate licensed day cares and preschools out of their homes. \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/report/early-educator-compensation/\">Home child care providers earn the least in a low-paying industry\u003c/a>, according to an August report from UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Child Care Employment. They are also less likely to have health coverage than workers at child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935478\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11935478\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt='A Black woman wearing a purple t-shirt that says \"Child care\" stands outside.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61674_029_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Thomas stands outside her Pittsburg home, where she runs a day care, on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Women of color make up 71% of home care providers, according to a 2020 CSCCE workforce survey published in January, with 37% identifying as Latina, 12% as Black, 12% as Asian and 6% as multiethnic. More than half are over the age of 50, and few have retirement savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are equity implications to a lot of this data,” said Elena Montoya, a lead researcher at CSCCE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/California.pdf?_ga=2.61482028.1485413797.1664937135-2040335669.1663610119\">60% of Californians lived somewhere in which the number of spots in licensed child care facilities did not meet the demand (PDF)\u003c/a>, according to the Center for American Progress. While the sector added 4,900 jobs in October, CSCCE, citing data compiled by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reported that \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/brief/child-care-sector-jobs-bls-analysis/\">child care employment is 8.4% below what it was in February 2020\u003c/a>.[aside postID=\"news_11928042,news_11929082\" label=\"Related Posts\"]“Until we’re really willing to acknowledge that the system is funded through these really low wages that these mostly women of color make in our state, and until we’re willing to address that, programs are going to continue to struggle to hire people,” Montoya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median annual salary range for small family child care providers like Thomas, who is Black, is between $16,200 to $30,000, according to CSCCE. Thomas, who has more than two decades of experience, said she usually earns around $38,000 per year. She earned almost $59,000 in 2021, because she received a one-time revitalization grant from a community investment fund along with other pandemic-related grants from First 5 Contra Costa and the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a field of service,” she said. “And if you’re not ready to be a servant, then you should not be in this field because everything you do and everything you think about is for someone else’s benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11935475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a purple t-shirt and black face mask sits with three children at a desk as they do arts and crafts in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Thomas works on an art project with the children at her day care at her home in Pittsburg on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas serves meals to kids, picks them up from school and helps with homework — the type of full-service care that many families with two working parents need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a mirror of what the children receive at home,” said Thomas, who currently cares for seven children between the ages 8 months and 10 years old. “Me and the parents work hand in hand, whatever they’re going through. We have one family that’s going through divorce, so I make sure to let the child know that they’re okay, that if they ever have a question they can ask me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That deep connection with families is why some child care providers prefer to work out of their homes instead of in larger child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more intimate to me,” said Freada Woody, owner and director of Gigi’s Precious Hearts Daycare in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody’s home is also part house and part school. The living room has a large brown couch and a TV. Between them stretches a long table surrounded by colorful plastic chairs for children. The dining room has a wall of cubbies filled with toys and books, and a decorative sign displaying the “Playroom Rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody, 64, currently watches four children ranging in ages from 10 months to 10 years old. Before the pandemic, she consistently cared for eight kids, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wakes up at 5 a.m. because a lot of the parents she works with have long commutes so the kids get dropped off as early as 6:30 a.m., she said. When the kids arrive, Woody plays calming music. During breakfast, they review school work. After breakfast, Woody drops the older kids off at school and has one-on-one time with her youngest child until noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then I get the other two and I do homework with them,” said Woody, who is Black. “We eat lunch, we talk about our days. We read every day. We do a lot of crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody says after the kids get picked up around 6:30 p.m., “we clean and disinfect this whole house. It takes us about an hour and a half to clean. But I have my son and I have my niece. That helps me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the almost 25,000 home-based providers who own their businesses, 13,200 paid teacher assistants work in home-based child care across the state. An additional 7,000 teacher assistants — often partners and relatives who share a home with a primary provider — are unpaid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thomas relies on her husband, Brian Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935482\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11935482\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a gray hoodie holds a child facing a window in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61658_013_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Thomas, Yolanda's husband, holds one of the children at the day care at their home in Pittsburg on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He’ll do grocery runs. He’ll transport, he’ll go pick up,” said Thomas, who chose to be a home-based provider, in part so she could be at home with her children. “But he’s behind the scenes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Woody became licensed, she watched kids for her family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They paid me for gas or material because I always did arts,” she said. “I taught the girls how to cook and braid their hair. I taught all the kids how to tie their shoes, but that was just natural stuff that you do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until a neighbor reported Woody for having an unlicensed day care that she even knew that a license was required to care for more than one child she wasn’t related to. When licensing officials came to Woody’s home to check on the neighbor’s complaint, they asked Woody if she wanted to become licensed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She did, and 14 years later, Woody is licensed to care for up to eight kids. She said she regularly attends professional development training and participates in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.qualitychildcarematters.org/\">Quality Matters program\u003c/a>, an initiative of First 5 Contra Costa to improve child care quality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CSCCE report, the annual median income for teachers at child care centers statewide is $39,500. In the Bay Area, that rises to $45,800. That’s $7,000 more than Thomas typically earns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think because we are at home, a lot of legislators, big wigs, parents — just people that don’t know the field — they think because we’re at home, it’s easy, but being at home makes it harder,” Thomas said. “Every day it’s like [family child care providers] have to fight to try to get noticed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11935477\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"An overhead view of a woman wearing a purple t-shirt and black face mask siting with three children at a desk as they do arts and crafts in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61659_012_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Thomas works on an art project with the children at the day care she runs from her home in Pittsburg on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The more an early childhood education role is paid, the fewer women of color there are in that role. Women of color make up 65% of center-based teachers, but that number dips to 45% for center directors who tend to make the most money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of CSCCE’s recommendations for policymakers is to make compensation for child care providers equal to that of transitional kindergarten teachers, including paid planning time and increased pay for additional degrees and specializations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montoya said that compensation should be based on what it costs caregivers to provide quality care, not on market rates or on what parents are able to afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Parents just can’t do more and the programs are doing all they can to meet their expenses and pay their workforce,” said Montoya. “It’s a very labor-heavy field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of inflation, Woody is buying smaller plants for gardening lessons. Thomas has changed how she cuts fruit in hopes that three apples can stretch as far as four used to. She now buys generic brands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody had money saved that has allowed her to make it through the financial squeeze brought on by the pandemic and rising gas prices. She knows that’s not the case for many providers who have left the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People who love this business, they’re not going to be having the opportunity to really do what they want to do because they’re struggling,” Woody said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Until we’re really willing to acknowledge that the system is funded through these really low wages that these mostly women of color make in our state, and until we’re willing to address that, programs are going to continue to struggle to hire people,” Montoya said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The median annual salary range for small family child care providers like Thomas, who is Black, is between $16,200 to $30,000, according to CSCCE. Thomas, who has more than two decades of experience, said she usually earns around $38,000 per year. She earned almost $59,000 in 2021, because she received a one-time revitalization grant from a community investment fund along with other pandemic-related grants from First 5 Contra Costa and the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a field of service,” she said. “And if you’re not ready to be a servant, then you should not be in this field because everything you do and everything you think about is for someone else’s benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11935475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11935475\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a purple t-shirt and black face mask sits with three children at a desk as they do arts and crafts in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/12/RS61650_006_KQED_DaycareYolandaThomas_12142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Yolanda Thomas works on an art project with the children at her day care at her home in Pittsburg on Dec. 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Thomas serves meals to kids, picks them up from school and helps with homework — the type of full-service care that many families with two working parents need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a mirror of what the children receive at home,” said Thomas, who currently cares for seven children between the ages 8 months and 10 years old. “Me and the parents work hand in hand, whatever they’re going through. We have one family that’s going through divorce, so I make sure to let the child know that they’re okay, that if they ever have a question they can ask me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That deep connection with families is why some child care providers prefer to work out of their homes instead of in larger child care centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s more intimate to me,” said Freada Woody, owner and director of Gigi’s Precious Hearts Daycare in Antioch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody’s home is also part house and part school. The living room has a large brown couch and a TV. Between them stretches a long table surrounded by colorful plastic chairs for children. The dining room has a wall of cubbies filled with toys and books, and a decorative sign displaying the “Playroom Rules.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody, 64, currently watches four children ranging in ages from 10 months to 10 years old. Before the pandemic, she consistently cared for eight kids, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wakes up at 5 a.m. because a lot of the parents she works with have long commutes so the kids get dropped off as early as 6:30 a.m., she said. When the kids arrive, Woody plays calming music. During breakfast, they review school work. After breakfast, Woody drops the older kids off at school and has one-on-one time with her youngest child until noon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Then I get the other two and I do homework with them,” said Woody, who is Black. “We eat lunch, we talk about our days. We read every day. We do a lot of crafts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Woody says after the kids get picked up around 6:30 p.m., “we clean and disinfect this whole house. It takes us about an hour and a half to clean. But I have my son and I have my niece. That helps me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the almost 25,000 home-based providers who own their businesses, 13,200 paid teacher assistants work in home-based child care across the state. 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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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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. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A severe teacher shortage has forced dozens of preschools\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in California to shut down some of their classrooms since the start of the school year.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The funding for these subsidized classrooms is available, and plenty of children from lower-income families are waiting to enroll. But there aren’t enough teachers — a situation that could get worse as the state begins to pour billions of dollars into transitional kindergarten, threatening to destabilize the early education workforce.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We have over 25 classrooms that we can put kids in, but we don’t have employees,” said Donna Sneeringer, chief strategy officer at the Child Care Resource Center, which serves children in Head Start programs in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. 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But \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medicine.yale.edu/childstudy/news-article/childcare-professionals-endured-higher-rates-of-depression-stress-and-asthma-during-the-pandemic-us-study-reveals/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the physical, mental and financial stress they endured during the public health crisis\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and the recession, accelerated their Great Resignation. Some teachers moved to more affordable locations, while others chose early retirement or left for better-paying jobs in other industries.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some are also shifting to public schools, where they stand to double their salaries as widening access to transitional kindergarten opens new job opportunities for them — and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11893791/why-californias-universal-transitional-kindergarten-plan-poses-a-threat-to-some-early-childhood-ed-providers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">threatens to destabilize\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the already fragile child care industry.\u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s the perfect, horrible storm,” said Maricle, who thinks the expansion of \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TK starting this school year in California \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">exacerbated the staffing problem. “You’ve got inflation, you’ve got a rising minimum wage that makes it more attractive for people who are in Head Start to make similar wages at McDonald’s. Then there was the pandemic, which made it harder to enroll families, and the stress of doing the work really increased for the staff.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“All of those pressures together are just putting enormous stress on the system.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Iris Marin-Lima, site manager, Old Gallinas Children's Center\"]'It was really a huge struggle. (I felt) like sometimes crying because really you didn't want to (cancel class) and there was not any other option.'[/pullquote]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">TK was established in California a decade ago to provide an extra year of schooling for kids who narrowly miss the cutoff to go to kindergarten. Last year, California lawmakers transformed the state’s early learning system by committing $2.7 billion toward expanding the program to all 4-year-olds. \u003c/span>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was a victory for advocates, who asserted that a universal program will lift children’s early development and lead to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.crocus.georgetown.edu/#_ga=2.34377573.530940750.1663795469-1280683115.1663795469\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">long-term success\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, such as a greater likelihood of graduating high school and attending college. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the 2025-26 school year, universal TK could cover more than 300,000 children. To ensure that they get the attention they need, state law requires significantly lowering the student-to-teacher ratio. 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In the Bay Area, a preschool teacher making an average salary of $51,500 could earn nearly $85,000 teaching TK, according to the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The state agency in charge of licensing professional educators is working to adopt a credentialing program to teach TK through third grade, and California is investing more than $2.5 billion to train new teachers. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It’s fantastic to see, finally, doors are opening for early childhood educators that are beginning to lead to professional wages,” said Scott Moore, CEO of Kidango, the largest provider of subsidized preschools in the Bay Area. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said that although his nonprofit has been able to raise teacher salaries from a minimum wage of $11 per hour six years ago to $20 per hour now — and soon, he hopes, a living wage of $26 per hour — it won’t be able to compete with school districts that can provide pensions, retirement and better health care benefits. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“These are things that teachers deserve and need. 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When the omicron variant was spreading in the spring and teachers were calling in sick, managers scrambled to meet that ratio. When they couldn’t, they called parents, sometimes at the last minute, to cancel class.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was really a huge struggle. (I felt) like sometimes crying because really you didn’t want to do it and there was not any other option,” said the school’s site manager, Iris Marin-Lima. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before the pandemic, the nonprofit that operates Old Gallinas and other Head Start sites in Marin County served more than 1,000 kids, a majority of them from immigrant households and beginning to learn English. 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