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"content": "\u003cp>When rain from an atmospheric river storm flooded the preschool inside Corey Santillan’s hillside home in San Francisco this past winter, she thought she’d have to cancel class for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water seeping from underground wrecked the wood floors, books, art supplies, costumes for pretend play and other classroom materials. The damage was the latest existential threat to La Bamba Preschool — a business Santillan started 16 years ago when she couldn’t find a Spanish-immersion program for her daughter in their Oceanview neighborhood. It survived a recession, a pandemic in which two of her longtime teachers quit and years of financial struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been times when I thought it was time to say goodbye to this beautiful program,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But thanks to Baby Prop. C, a business tax to support San Francisco’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children, Santillan is starting to see some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a $15,000 grant to install a water pump and repair some of the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher reads to children gathered around her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo reads a book with her students in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also received stipends to boost her income — enough to allow her to hire a part-time assistant — and was able to access funding to build a structure in her back yard that will be used as a therapeutic room for kids who experience sensory overload. Since the pandemic, she’s seeing more kids with developmental delays due to social isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel I can afford to hire an extra staff so we can do that one-on-one work with the children that need it,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, San Francisco voters narrowly approved a commercial rent tax to expand access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and to help pay early educators a living wage. At the time, proponents argued for a dedicated funding stream for child care to help with waitlists \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Universal_Child_Rent_Tax.pdf\">for subsidized care for children under the age of 4 (PDF)\u003c/a> and to cover pay raises for early educators, a third of whom were relying on public assistance programs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep them in the workforce, the city intends to pay early educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/mayor-breed-announces-landmark-pay-raise-initiative-for-early-educators-in-city-funded-programs/\">at least $28 per hour by 2025\u003c/a>. This far exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/states/california/\">the $13.43 median wage for child care workers in California\u003c/a>, according to the latest data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman looks up at a boy as they stand in a yard with plants.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Santillan works with a student in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taxpayer and business groups challenged the measure and held it up in the courts but funds collected under it began reaching families and providers last year. Around the same time, Mayor London Breed launched the Department of Early Childhood, dedicating $300 million annually to support the city’s goal of providing universal early care and education to all young children. The bulk of the revenue comes from the commercial tax, although that number will likely dip \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-vacancy/3204043/#:~:text=%22The%20vacancy%20rate%20in%20San,commercial%20real%20estate%20firm%20CBRE.\">due to rising vacancy rates at downtown offices and retail spaces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/the-benefits-of-investing-in-early-childhood-educa/embed#?secret=2SEccoZXfv\" data-secret=\"2SEccoZXfv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/decs-year-in-review/\">have increased wages for teachers and expanded access to child care\u003c/a>, putting San Francisco further along than the rest of the state in reforming the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, families making up to 110% of the San Francisco area’s median income — \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/paying-for-ece/\">or up to $152,400 a year for a family of four\u003c/a> — can qualify for subsidized child care for their kids under age 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some luxury that you can do without,” said Wei-min Wang, deputy director for the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point, almost every family, every parent, every caregiver knows that early education is essential to getting kids a leg up in terms of getting ready for school — and, by virtue of that, ready for life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948712 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman engaged in arts activity with two children, one boy and one girl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo engages in an art activity with her students at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the rollout of Baby Prop. C, the waitlist for families eligible for subsidized care has gotten shorter — from the 2,000–3,000 range down to about 1,000, according to Wang — but there are lingering concerns about meeting the needs of families with babies and toddlers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ability to provide subsidies for low-income families with infant and toddlers will take some time. The infrastructure needed will take time,” former Supervisor Norman Yee, who spearheaded the campaign for Baby Prop. C, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The most concern I have is the growing of the workforce,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because caring for infants and toddlers is a labor-intensive job that costs more than other types of child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the most expensive because ideally you’re in a situation where you have no more than three infants to each adult. Anything higher than that, I mean, you can just imagine … like having to care for four babies at one time,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='The True Cost of Child Care' tag='true-cost-of-child-care']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystle Danridge-Pierson saw the acute demand when, a year ago, she opened Each One Teach One out of her home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute I opened, my waitlist filled with pregnant women trying to line up child care for the babies in their bellies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danridge-Pierson said she received robust support from the San Francisco Children’s Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/for-child-care-programs/start-or-grow-your-business/\">Family Child Care Business Incubator program\u003c/a> to obtain a state license to open and grow her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months after opening, she was able to access city funding after meeting a set of high-quality standards. They include maintaining a safe and enriching environment, closely monitoring children’s development, communicating with parents about their children’s learning and keeping up with training to improve her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has to agree to serve lower- and middle-income parents and guardians like Keith Anderson, grandfather of a 2-year-old named Ajani — ensuring that they have access to a high-quality program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His growth in communication, his activities, the way he sings, the way he plays the piano,” Anderson said. “I can attribute that to Miss Krystle because she has a music session once a week on Fridays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Katie Le-Blanc said she sends her 5-year-old son, Remo, to Santillan’s small program because it offers him the opportunity to learn Spanish and focuses on developing the whole child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s growing compassionate children, she’s teaching curious children and she’s teaching them things like social justice, environmentalism, art, dance, sports,” Le-Blanc said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santillan and Danridge-Pierson are certified to teach in elementary schools, but instead they choose to dedicate themselves to early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman holds a small child up to her face while smiling. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>When rain from an atmospheric river storm flooded the preschool inside Corey Santillan’s hillside home in San Francisco this past winter, she thought she’d have to cancel class for weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Water seeping from underground wrecked the wood floors, books, art supplies, costumes for pretend play and other classroom materials. The damage was the latest existential threat to La Bamba Preschool — a business Santillan started 16 years ago when she couldn’t find a Spanish-immersion program for her daughter in their Oceanview neighborhood. It survived a recession, a pandemic in which two of her longtime teachers quit and years of financial struggle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There have been times when I thought it was time to say goodbye to this beautiful program,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But thanks to Baby Prop. C, a business tax to support San Francisco’s goal of providing early education and care for all of the city’s children, Santillan is starting to see some change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She received a $15,000 grant to install a water pump and repair some of the damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948785\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948785\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A teacher reads to children gathered around her.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/RS64791_015_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo reads a book with her students in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She also received stipends to boost her income — enough to allow her to hire a part-time assistant — and was able to access funding to build a structure in her back yard that will be used as a therapeutic room for kids who experience sensory overload. Since the pandemic, she’s seeing more kids with developmental delays due to social isolation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel I can afford to hire an extra staff so we can do that one-on-one work with the children that need it,” Santillan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, San Francisco voters narrowly approved a commercial rent tax to expand access to child care, particularly for lower- and middle-income families, and to help pay early educators a living wage. At the time, proponents argued for a dedicated funding stream for child care to help with waitlists \u003ca href=\"https://sfelections.sfgov.org/sites/default/files/Documents/candidates/Universal_Child_Rent_Tax.pdf\">for subsidized care for children under the age of 4 (PDF)\u003c/a> and to cover pay raises for early educators, a third of whom were relying on public assistance programs to make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep them in the workforce, the city intends to pay early educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/mayor-breed-announces-landmark-pay-raise-initiative-for-early-educators-in-city-funded-programs/\">at least $28 per hour by 2025\u003c/a>. This far exceeds \u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/workforce-index-2020/states/california/\">the $13.43 median wage for child care workers in California\u003c/a>, according to the latest data from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at UC Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948703\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman looks up at a boy as they stand in a yard with plants.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS64799_029_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corey Santillan works with a student in the back yard at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Taxpayer and business groups challenged the measure and held it up in the courts but funds collected under it began reaching families and providers last year. Around the same time, Mayor London Breed launched the Department of Early Childhood, dedicating $300 million annually to support the city’s goal of providing universal early care and education to all young children. The bulk of the revenue comes from the commercial tax, although that number will likely dip \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco-office-vacancy/3204043/#:~:text=%22The%20vacancy%20rate%20in%20San,commercial%20real%20estate%20firm%20CBRE.\">due to rising vacancy rates at downtown offices and retail spaces\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"The Benefits of Investing in Early Childhood Education and Care\" src=\"https://omny.fm/shows/kqed-segmented-audio/the-benefits-of-investing-in-early-childhood-educa/embed#?secret=2SEccoZXfv\" data-secret=\"2SEccoZXfv\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those funds \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/decs-year-in-review/\">have increased wages for teachers and expanded access to child care\u003c/a>, putting San Francisco further along than the rest of the state in reforming the child care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, families making up to 110% of the San Francisco area’s median income — \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/paying-for-ece/\">or up to $152,400 a year for a family of four\u003c/a> — can qualify for subsidized child care for their kids under age 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some luxury that you can do without,” said Wei-min Wang, deputy director for the Department of Early Childhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at this point, almost every family, every parent, every caregiver knows that early education is essential to getting kids a leg up in terms of getting ready for school — and, by virtue of that, ready for life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948712\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-11948712 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg\" alt=\"A Latinx woman engaged in arts activity with two children, one boy and one girl.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/022_KQED_LaBombaPreschool_04202023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teacher Martha Guarnizo engages in an art activity with her students at La Bamba day care in San Francisco on April 20, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since the rollout of Baby Prop. 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Anything higher than that, I mean, you can just imagine … like having to care for four babies at one time,” Wang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krystle Danridge-Pierson saw the acute demand when, a year ago, she opened Each One Teach One out of her home in the Bernal Heights neighborhood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The minute I opened, my waitlist filled with pregnant women trying to line up child care for the babies in their bellies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danridge-Pierson said she received robust support from the San Francisco Children’s Council’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.childrenscouncil.org/for-child-care-programs/start-or-grow-your-business/\">Family Child Care Business Incubator program\u003c/a> to obtain a state license to open and grow her business.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nine months after opening, she was able to access city funding after meeting a set of high-quality standards. They include maintaining a safe and enriching environment, closely monitoring children’s development, communicating with parents about their children’s learning and keeping up with training to improve her skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also has to agree to serve lower- and middle-income parents and guardians like Keith Anderson, grandfather of a 2-year-old named Ajani — ensuring that they have access to a high-quality program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His growth in communication, his activities, the way he sings, the way he plays the piano,” Anderson said. “I can attribute that to Miss Krystle because she has a music session once a week on Fridays.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parent Katie Le-Blanc said she sends her 5-year-old son, Remo, to Santillan’s small program because it offers him the opportunity to learn Spanish and focuses on developing the whole child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s growing compassionate children, she’s teaching curious children and she’s teaching them things like social justice, environmentalism, art, dance, sports,” Le-Blanc said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Santillan and Danridge-Pierson are certified to teach in elementary schools, but instead they choose to dedicate themselves to early childhood education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948823\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11948823\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg\" alt=\"A Black woman holds a small child up to her face while smiling. The child touches her face.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2030/05/018_KQED_EachOneTeachOneChildCare_04262023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Krystle Danridge-Pierson, founder and director at Each One Teach One Child Care, holds a small child at the San Francisco day care facility on April 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The age group that I enjoy and love pretty much the most is the babies, the beginning of all of their educational journey,” Danridge-Pierson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The longer-term goal is to pay early educators the same salary as public school teachers so they can see a future in the profession, Wang said.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Tamarra Hayward, 36, is a single mother of three with two dead-end jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At night, she works the graveyard shift at an Amazon warehouse in the Sacramento area, picking out merchandise people have ordered online and sending it off to be packed and delivered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job pays $19 per hour, which she said isn’t enough to make ends meet. So she delivers food for DoorDash on the side, and while she’s working, she relies on family members to look after her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tamarra Hayward, apprentice construction worker\"]‘Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care.’[/pullquote]“I’ve got someone different watching my kids every single day, and I’m struggling paycheck to paycheck right now,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an aunt, who is a longtime carpenter, suggested she pursue a career in construction, Hayward jumped at the chance and signed up for a pre-apprenticeship — a boot camp-like program that teaches the basics of carpentry before a four-year apprenticeship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948324\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948324\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of women wearing construction equipment survey a building area.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/029_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An all-female group gets ready to pack up for the day. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hayward is among a small but growing group of women California is trying to attract to the trades. The construction industry has historically been male-dominated, and the state is trying to get more women and nonbinary people into the pipeline by promoting state-regulated apprenticeships that will lead to better-paying jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The industry itself needs \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.org/News-Media/News-Releases/entryid/19777/construction-workforce-shortage-tops-half-a-million-in-2023-says-abc\">hundreds of thousands of skilled workers\u003c/a> to replace older workers who are retiring, and to meet the rising demand for new construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But only 3.5% of people enrolled in construction apprenticeships are women, and access to child care is keeping many of them from joining the trades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you talk to women in the industry, they will likely share the challenge of finding affordable and accessible child care as a significant barrier,” said Katie Hagen, director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, at a news conference in March announcing $25 million in grants to help cover the cost of child care for women starting their careers in construction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948322\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948322\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/024_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oshen Turman practices nailing techniques during the six-week training program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Apprenticeships offer participants who don’t necessarily have a college degree a chance to earn money while they undergo training in various jobs. They’re a key part of the state’s strategy to develop a skilled workforce by offering apprenticeships to a half-million people by 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Graduates from a construction apprenticeship program can expect to make $75,000 or more per year, said Hagen.[aside postID=\"news_11948283\" label=\"Related Post\"]“There aren’t very many jobs where you finish your training program and you can earn such a high wage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders are trying to bolster the effort by supporting legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2023/february/senator-limon-and-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-introduce-child-care-reform\">invest in more child care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Meredith, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, said construction workers often get to job sites before dawn, so they need child care that falls outside of normal working hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women are actually looking for programs that can take their children at 5 or 5:30 in the morning or, God forbid, even sometimes earlier than that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction equipment hold a wooden structure as one person looks on while another works on a different wooden structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the pre-apprenticeship working to become carpenters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents had a hard time finding flexible child care hours long before the pandemic hit. Between 2008 and 2017, the number of home-based family child care sites that typically offered care beyond the 9-to-5 schedule \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/publications/nontraditional-hours-and-child-care-study\">steadily declined by 30%\u003c/a>, according to the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gemma DiMatteo, research director for the network, these small businesses often struggle to stay afloat financially, and would have taken a harder hit during the pandemic if they hadn’t received federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward said she anticipates that she’ll be on multiple waitlists for child care for her 12-month-old daughter, but it’s a step up from not being able to afford child care at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six grueling weeks, Hayward drove 90 miles each way from her home in Sacramento to the Nor Cal Carpenters Training facility in the East Bay city of Pleasanton to undergo training with 10 other women. They’d start by running 1.5 miles around the massive building while wearing heavy tool belts and then spend the rest of the day learning how to use tools and machinery safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from the pre-apprenticeship, Hayward will receive $10,000 in stipends from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/Grants/ERICA.html\">Equal Representation in Construction Apprenticeship\u003c/a>, or ERiCA, grant to help her get through the next phase of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward practices nailing techniques. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As an apprentice, she’ll continue with classroom learning and be on call when a construction job comes up. The stipends are expected to cover the first two years of the apprenticeship, when starting pay ranges from $30 to $37 per hour, depending on the location of the job site. But as the program continues, workers will see their pay rise. By the fourth year, they could earn up to $47 to $54 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Hayward will make enough money to support her family with this one job — and child care will be subsidized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care,” she said. “I’m also going to be able to save money to buy a house for my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the final day of the boot camp, Hayward said she woke up early, prepared bottles of milk for her baby, gave her a kiss and got in her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction uniforms pose holding certificates in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward (kneeling in orange jacket) and Oshen Turman (second row, far right), alongside their classmates, pose for a portrait after receiving their certificates of completion. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just finished giving her the last of the breast milk that I made. But I remind myself the reason why I came to this program is so that I don’t have to continue the cycle of struggle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said her kids and the promise of a better future motivate her to keep going.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“There aren’t very many jobs where you finish your training program and you can earn such a high wage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Builders are trying to bolster the effort by supporting legislation that would \u003ca href=\"https://sd19.senate.ca.gov/news/2023/february/senator-limon-and-assembly-majority-leader-reyes-introduce-child-care-reform\">invest in more child care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Meredith, president of the State Building and Construction Trades Council, said construction workers often get to job sites before dawn, so they need child care that falls outside of normal working hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Women are actually looking for programs that can take their children at 5 or 5:30 in the morning or, God forbid, even sometimes earlier than that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948323\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction equipment hold a wooden structure as one person looks on while another works on a different wooden structure.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/026_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the pre-apprenticeship working to become carpenters. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Parents had a hard time finding flexible child care hours long before the pandemic hit. Between 2008 and 2017, the number of home-based family child care sites that typically offered care beyond the 9-to-5 schedule \u003ca href=\"https://rrnetwork.org/publications/nontraditional-hours-and-child-care-study\">steadily declined by 30%\u003c/a>, according to the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Gemma DiMatteo, research director for the network, these small businesses often struggle to stay afloat financially, and would have taken a harder hit during the pandemic if they hadn’t received federal aid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hayward said she anticipates that she’ll be on multiple waitlists for child care for her 12-month-old daughter, but it’s a step up from not being able to afford child care at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For six grueling weeks, Hayward drove 90 miles each way from her home in Sacramento to the Nor Cal Carpenters Training facility in the East Bay city of Pleasanton to undergo training with 10 other women. They’d start by running 1.5 miles around the massive building while wearing heavy tool belts and then spend the rest of the day learning how to use tools and machinery safely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After graduating from the pre-apprenticeship, Hayward will receive $10,000 in stipends from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/DAS/Grants/ERICA.html\">Equal Representation in Construction Apprenticeship\u003c/a>, or ERiCA, grant to help her get through the next phase of training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948321\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948321\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women wearing construction uniforms hold hammers near wooden boards at a construction site.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/017_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward practices nailing techniques. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As an apprentice, she’ll continue with classroom learning and be on call when a construction job comes up. The stipends are expected to cover the first two years of the apprenticeship, when starting pay ranges from $30 to $37 per hour, depending on the location of the job site. But as the program continues, workers will see their pay rise. By the fourth year, they could earn up to $47 to $54 per hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means Hayward will make enough money to support her family with this one job — and child care will be subsidized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Two years of receiving a child care stipend will allow me to save two years of income that I would have taken away from my household for child care,” she said. “I’m also going to be able to save money to buy a house for my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the final day of the boot camp, Hayward said she woke up early, prepared bottles of milk for her baby, gave her a kiss and got in her car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11948326\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11948326\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people wearing construction uniforms pose holding certificates in a building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/047_KQED_CarpentryTraining_03302023.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tamarra Hayward (kneeling in orange jacket) and Oshen Turman (second row, far right), alongside their classmates, pose for a portrait after receiving their certificates of completion. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I just finished giving her the last of the breast milk that I made. But I remind myself the reason why I came to this program is so that I don’t have to continue the cycle of struggle,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Jaime Pacheco, 5, has spent half of his life in a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was still learning to talk when the lockdown began. That was also when his mom gave birth to his sister. COVID-19 hit his working-class and immigrant community in East San José hard, and his family stayed at home to protect the baby and everyone else from getting sick. When they did go on an outing, his mom, Itzia Morfin, said she kept her kids far away from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when he stepped into a classroom for the first time last fall, Jaime had a hard time pronouncing words and expressing his feelings, and threw a tantrum unlike any Morfin had seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941884\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman in a pink sweater poses with her two young children outside of a school gate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itzia Morfin poses with her daughter and son in front of the Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Daisy Nguyen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was all new to him. He didn’t know how to act around other kids, around the teacher,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime is among tens of thousands of children who began their schooling this year when California made transitional kindergarten, or TK, more available as part of an ambitious plan to create the nation’s largest universal preschool program in the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitional kindergarten is intended to better prepare 4- to 5-year-olds for kindergarten. The new grade is not mandatory, but gives parents the option of getting their children into schools sooner, which can help reduce child care costs that have become increasingly unaffordable and unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this first year of implementing the expansion \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/early-childhood-education/2022/11/california-transitional-kindergarten/\">has been bumpy\u003c/a>. Some school districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922708/californias-2-7-billion-plan-to-expand-transitional-kindergarten-is-off-to-an-uneven-start\">didn’t meet enrollment expectations\u003c/a>, and some saw a jump in enrollment, although that meant taking away kids that were in preschools and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/12/14/childcare-providers-are-a-casualty-of-californias-transitional-kindergarten\">destabilizing child care businesses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A school sign by a neighborhood street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges has been staffing. The majority of districts reported they didn’t have enough qualified teachers or child care staff to cover beyond the half day of classroom time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682\">increase spending on the $3 billion initiative\u003c/a>, despite a projected $24 billion deficit for the 2023–24 budget year, so that the state can continue ramping up the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not by any stretch of the imagination where we need to be, but we’re not backing off in terms of accelerating these priorities in terms of our efforts to transform our public education system,” Newsom said when he unveiled his budget plan in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is giving school districts time to fully implement the program by phasing in younger students each year. Currently, students who turn 5 between September and February 2 are eligible for transitional kindergarten. Next fall, tens of thousands of children who turn 5 between September and April 2 will be qualified to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Two girls play with blocks on a carpet in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camila Rico laughs as she grabs an armful of blocks during playtime in a transitional kindergarten class at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the 2025–26 school year, all children who turn 4 by September 1 can sign up for TK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the California Department of Education hasn’t released this school year’s attendance data for TK, it appears enrollment didn’t grow as much as the state anticipated. Newsom’s budget proposal lowered spending estimates for the first year of the expansion, and the governor \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm2qTbMen4M\">taped a video\u003c/a> last month to encourage families to enroll age-eligible kids and “start their schooling on the right track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also postponed plans to reduce class size from 12 students for every teacher to 10 students per teacher, and held back funding to renovate or build the appropriate facilities for TK-age children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one Bay Area school district is having more success. Over the last two years, TK enrollment in East San José went up from 262 to 324.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the Alum Rock Union School District has been gradually growing its TK program since 2015. It skipped ahead of the state’s expansion schedule by phasing in 4-year-olds earlier; it’s keeping classroom size small, at just 20 kids per two adults in the room so the students get the attention they need; and it’s offering after-school care to meet the needs of working parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidango.org/\">Kidango\u003c/a>, a nonprofit child care provider, to convert an elementary school into an early learning center where babies up to kindergarten-age kids will receive a full day of care — all on one campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina woman stands in a school hallway looking off camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianna J. Ballesteros, director of early learning for Alum Rock Union School District, stands for a portrait at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José, on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The idea of repurposing this facility came from listening to people in the community who said ‘we need something that is local, something where we don’t have to go driving far away,’” said Dianna Ballesteros, director of early learning for Alum Rock Union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Declining elementary school enrollment prompted district officials to move older students to other campuses while the TK and kindergarten students stayed put, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now those empty classrooms are turning into a day care: Desks, chairs and whiteboards are being replaced with short sinks, tables and cubbies for smaller kids and cribs and diaper-changing tables to welcome infants and toddlers by the next school year.[aside postID=news_11922708 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57716_IMG_0008-qut-1020x765.jpg']The center also includes an office where children can get assessed for developmental delays. \u003ca href=\"https://www.somosmayfair.org/\">SOMOS Mayfair\u003c/a>, a community organization that offers referrals for public assistance programs, also has an office on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a great model and we should see how it works and maybe learn from it,” said Patricia Lozano, executive director of the advocacy group Early Edge California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/press/achievement-gaps-exist-as-early-as-when-children-begin-kindergarten/\">children from lower-income families tend to fall behind their better-off peers starting in kindergarten\u003c/a>, Lozano argues it’s crucial to provide a consistent learning environment early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During these early years, all these connections are happening in the brain, and the more opportunities we give kids to socialize, to play with other kids … you know, we’re kind of building the infrastructure for future learning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alum Rock Union’s learning center is named after Cesar Chavez, who once lived close by while laboring in the fruit orchards. East San José, which is home to immigrants from Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam and India, among others, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862305/in-the-heart-of-the-pandemic-covid-19-deaths-loom-large-in-east-san-jose\">some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are still felt in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime’s teacher at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center, Sandra Rivera, said she’s noticed a change over the last two school years. Transitional kindergarten students show up not knowing how to share or take turns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941926\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman sits around a tables with kids, helping one hold a pencil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transitional kindergarten teacher Sandra Rivera helps one of her students trace numbers inside a heart at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When they’re playing, their conflict resolution isn’t like it used to be because kids aren’t going to the park, kids aren’t seeing other kids in social settings, and so it takes time at the beginning of the year to get those routines and procedures into place so they can feel safe and confident in the classroom environment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera sees the education system setting higher academic expectations for kindergarten, and transitional kindergarten as giving children an extra year to get ready. In her classroom, Rivera introduces the letters of the alphabet and math concepts through singing and rhyming, and building with magnetic tiles and blocks, to foster a love of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says she also combines activities, such as cooking projects, with the kindergarten class next door so her students can get a preview of what to expect when they move up to kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that exploration and play is prevalent here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is already making a difference for Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with a face mask looks at the camera in a classroom with other kids playing behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaime Pacheco stands in his transitional kindergarten class at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One recent morning, he sat on a rug with a group of classmates, playing a counting game that involved taking turns to guess the missing number in a sequence of 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two kids had stuck heart-shaped cards, each with a number on it — 10, 20, 30 — in numerical order on the board. When it was Jaime’s turn, he chose the number 40 from a pile of cards and placed it on the board. Next, he randomly picked a popsicle stick with the name of the next classmate to go to the board. He was able to recognize the letters of her name and called out “Kenya.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the center, Jaime was matched with a speech therapist to help him catch up to his peers. Now, his mom said he’s making friends and picking up new skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knows what a routine is, he knows to put away his stuff … he makes me so proud of him when I see him doing the alphabet and signing,” Morfin said. “I just feel so happy, his teacher has been helping him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the benefits of TK with Jaime, Morfin said she’s now eager for her daughter to start preschool earlier.\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>\u003cp>Jaime Pacheco, 5, has spent half of his life in a pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was still learning to talk when the lockdown began. That was also when his mom gave birth to his sister. COVID-19 hit his working-class and immigrant community in East San José hard, and his family stayed at home to protect the baby and everyone else from getting sick. When they did go on an outing, his mom, Itzia Morfin, said she kept her kids far away from people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when he stepped into a classroom for the first time last fall, Jaime had a hard time pronouncing words and expressing his feelings, and threw a tantrum unlike any Morfin had seen before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941884\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman in a pink sweater poses with her two young children outside of a school gate.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63157_IMG_3023-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Itzia Morfin poses with her daughter and son in front of the Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(Daisy Nguyen/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was all new to him. He didn’t know how to act around other kids, around the teacher,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime is among tens of thousands of children who began their schooling this year when California made transitional kindergarten, or TK, more available as part of an ambitious plan to create the nation’s largest universal preschool program in the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transitional kindergarten is intended to better prepare 4- to 5-year-olds for kindergarten. The new grade is not mandatory, but gives parents the option of getting their children into schools sooner, which can help reduce child care costs that have become increasingly unaffordable and unavailable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this first year of implementing the expansion \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/early-childhood-education/2022/11/california-transitional-kindergarten/\">has been bumpy\u003c/a>. Some school districts \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11922708/californias-2-7-billion-plan-to-expand-transitional-kindergarten-is-off-to-an-uneven-start\">didn’t meet enrollment expectations\u003c/a>, and some saw a jump in enrollment, although that meant taking away kids that were in preschools and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kpbs.org/news/local/2022/12/14/childcare-providers-are-a-casualty-of-californias-transitional-kindergarten\">destabilizing child care businesses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941930\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A school sign by a neighborhood street.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63097_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-457-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the biggest challenges has been staffing. The majority of districts reported they didn’t have enough qualified teachers or child care staff to cover beyond the half day of classroom time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed to \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4682\">increase spending on the $3 billion initiative\u003c/a>, despite a projected $24 billion deficit for the 2023–24 budget year, so that the state can continue ramping up the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not by any stretch of the imagination where we need to be, but we’re not backing off in terms of accelerating these priorities in terms of our efforts to transform our public education system,” Newsom said when he unveiled his budget plan in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state is giving school districts time to fully implement the program by phasing in younger students each year. Currently, students who turn 5 between September and February 2 are eligible for transitional kindergarten. Next fall, tens of thousands of children who turn 5 between September and April 2 will be qualified to attend class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941928\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941928\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Two girls play with blocks on a carpet in a classroom.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63081_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-143-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camila Rico laughs as she grabs an armful of blocks during playtime in a transitional kindergarten class at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By the 2025–26 school year, all children who turn 4 by September 1 can sign up for TK.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the California Department of Education hasn’t released this school year’s attendance data for TK, it appears enrollment didn’t grow as much as the state anticipated. Newsom’s budget proposal lowered spending estimates for the first year of the expansion, and the governor \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm2qTbMen4M\">taped a video\u003c/a> last month to encourage families to enroll age-eligible kids and “start their schooling on the right track.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also postponed plans to reduce class size from 12 students for every teacher to 10 students per teacher, and held back funding to renovate or build the appropriate facilities for TK-age children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one Bay Area school district is having more success. Over the last two years, TK enrollment in East San José went up from 262 to 324.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the Alum Rock Union School District has been gradually growing its TK program since 2015. It skipped ahead of the state’s expansion schedule by phasing in 4-year-olds earlier; it’s keeping classroom size small, at just 20 kids per two adults in the room so the students get the attention they need; and it’s offering after-school care to meet the needs of working parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also partnered with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kidango.org/\">Kidango\u003c/a>, a nonprofit child care provider, to convert an elementary school into an early learning center where babies up to kindergarten-age kids will receive a full day of care — all on one campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941885\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"An older Latina woman stands in a school hallway looking off camera.\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63096_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-512-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dianna J. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The center also includes an office where children can get assessed for developmental delays. \u003ca href=\"https://www.somosmayfair.org/\">SOMOS Mayfair\u003c/a>, a community organization that offers referrals for public assistance programs, also has an office on-site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a great model and we should see how it works and maybe learn from it,” said Patricia Lozano, executive director of the advocacy group Early Edge California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/press/achievement-gaps-exist-as-early-as-when-children-begin-kindergarten/\">children from lower-income families tend to fall behind their better-off peers starting in kindergarten\u003c/a>, Lozano argues it’s crucial to provide a consistent learning environment early on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During these early years, all these connections are happening in the brain, and the more opportunities we give kids to socialize, to play with other kids … you know, we’re kind of building the infrastructure for future learning,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alum Rock Union’s learning center is named after Cesar Chavez, who once lived close by while laboring in the fruit orchards. East San José, which is home to immigrants from Mexico, the Philippines, Vietnam and India, among others, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862305/in-the-heart-of-the-pandemic-covid-19-deaths-loom-large-in-east-san-jose\">some of the highest rates of COVID-19 infections and deaths\u003c/a> in Santa Clara County, and the lingering effects of the pandemic are still felt in the classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime’s teacher at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center, Sandra Rivera, said she’s noticed a change over the last two school years. Transitional kindergarten students show up not knowing how to share or take turns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941926\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941926\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A Latina woman sits around a tables with kids, helping one hold a pencil.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63085_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-220-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Transitional kindergarten teacher Sandra Rivera helps one of her students trace numbers inside a heart at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When they’re playing, their conflict resolution isn’t like it used to be because kids aren’t going to the park, kids aren’t seeing other kids in social settings, and so it takes time at the beginning of the year to get those routines and procedures into place so they can feel safe and confident in the classroom environment,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera sees the education system setting higher academic expectations for kindergarten, and transitional kindergarten as giving children an extra year to get ready. In her classroom, Rivera introduces the letters of the alphabet and math concepts through singing and rhyming, and building with magnetic tiles and blocks, to foster a love of learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera says she also combines activities, such as cooking projects, with the kindergarten class next door so her students can get a preview of what to expect when they move up to kindergarten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of that exploration and play is prevalent here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is already making a difference for Jaime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941929\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11941929\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A young boy with a face mask looks at the camera in a classroom with other kids playing behind him.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS63089_02172023_ksuzuki_tkprogress-199-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaime Pacheco stands in his transitional kindergarten class at Cesar Chavez Early Learning Center in East San José on Feb. 17, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One recent morning, he sat on a rug with a group of classmates, playing a counting game that involved taking turns to guess the missing number in a sequence of 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two kids had stuck heart-shaped cards, each with a number on it — 10, 20, 30 — in numerical order on the board. When it was Jaime’s turn, he chose the number 40 from a pile of cards and placed it on the board. Next, he randomly picked a popsicle stick with the name of the next classmate to go to the board. He was able to recognize the letters of her name and called out “Kenya.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through the center, Jaime was matched with a speech therapist to help him catch up to his peers. Now, his mom said he’s making friends and picking up new skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He knows what a routine is, he knows to put away his stuff … he makes me so proud of him when I see him doing the alphabet and signing,” Morfin said. “I just feel so happy, his teacher has been helping him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Seeing the benefits of TK with Jaime, Morfin said she’s now eager for her daughter to start preschool earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a vote late Wednesday night, Oakland’s school board scrapped a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904618/oakland-moves-to-close-seven-schools-despite-fierce-community-opposition\">previously approved plan to close or merge multiple schools\u003c/a> in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/22-2731-Rescission-of-School-Consolidations-Mike-Hutchinson-Member-Board-of-Education-1112023-5.pdf\">The move (PDF)\u003c/a> saves five elementary schools that were set to be shuttered next year, including Brookfield, Carl B. Munck, Grass Valley, Horace Mann and Korematsu Discovery Academy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hillcrest Elementary, which was slated to lose its sixth through eighth grade classes as part of the previous plan, will also now remain intact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 4–2 vote halts February’s controversial decision to close or merge 11 schools in the district amid declining enrollment and a growing budget deficit. The reversal, however, does not apply to the five additional schools on the list that have already been closed or downsized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision follows the recent election of several new members, including Valarie Bachelor and Jennifer Brouhard, who both campaigned last year in favor of overturning the closures.[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11904618,news_11905982,news_11915396\"]“Overwhelmingly the Oakland community in all three school board races during the election made it really clear that they do not want to see any more schools close,” Bachelor said. “So I think we need to make sure those community voices are heard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move also comes at a crucial time for many families in the district, who soon have to decide where to enroll their children next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re gonna be the first city of our size in the country to walk back from school closures, to embrace full community control,” said board President Mike Hutchinson, who introduced the resolution to reverse the closures and was an early, outspoken opponent of the original plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson said he hopes the move will make the enrollment process a little bit easier for families, and will clear the way for the board to fix the harm caused by last February’s divisive vote. That decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905982/how-dare-you-oakland-school-closure-decision-inspires-new-opposition-efforts\">sparked student and staff walkouts\u003c/a>, an 18-day hunger strike staged by two OUSD staff members, and an inquiry by the state Department of Justice over potential violation of students’ civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The goal is not to just save our schools from closure, but the goal has to be to rebuild our schools, to finally make them the high-quality schools across this district that every community wants and deserves,” Hutchinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nearly three hours, the throng of students, parents and teachers who joined Wednesday’s meeting in person and over Zoom pleaded with board members to stop the closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It shouldn’t be fair,” Olivia, a second grade student at Carl B. Munck Elementary, told the board. “I haven’t been in third grade yet and I don’t want to go to a new school because this school is awesome. I love it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the meeting, Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell urged school supporters to also demand more support from the city and county to help the district address its declining enrollment, which has led to a reduction in state funding. She also said more needs to be done to raise teachers’ pay and offer them and district families more affordable housing options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could double the amount of schools we have, but if we can’t attract folks to be here, we won’t have the staff that we need,” she said. “Secondly, housing. Families are moving out, our staff are moving out because it’s so expensive. That is not a problem that we can solve by ourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the vote, Carl Pezol, father of a third grader at Munck, said he felt overjoyed and relieved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been a long year,” he said. “From the hunger strikes to the sit-ins, to the rallies, to the efforts, to the advocacy. There’s a lot of people who put their voice out there and put a lot of effort into this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pezol praised the special education program at Munck, where he said his son is thriving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they were to close that program, it would cause a lot of disruption to him, to a lot of his classmates and to our families,” he said. “Getting into a new school for a disabled kid is not easy. Getting into a new routine, new faces. … It’s just doubly hard when you have other issues to deal with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bachelor said the district must now move quickly to reopen enrollment at the five saved schools, and ensure they all have the proper staffing, since some teachers had already begun looking for work elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hutchinson and board member VanCedric Williams also voted in favor of overturning the closure decision, while Nick Resnick, a third new member, abstained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Sam Davis, among the minority who voted against the move to rescind the closures, said he wanted to wait for a fiscal analysis of the impact, which won’t be ready until later this month. Davis said he’s worried the district won’t be able to pay its bills over the next few years and finally free itself from state receivership, which it has been under since 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many districts with a … similar size to Oakland have 50 to 60 schools while we have 78. That’s the basic math of the situation. That’s why I supported reducing the number of schools,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Bachelor argued that instead of closing schools, the district should instead be making cuts to personnel in its central office and to its many costly contracts with outside consultants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to take a thorough look at how much we’re spending at our central office and how much we’re spending on consultant contracts,” Bachelor said. “Too often we overlook what we can cut or what we can modify in those two spaces, and just go towards our schools and what sites we can close, and I want to change that. 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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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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. 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She calls a client who gave birth a month earlier to find out what she needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you already have a hand pump or just an electric pump?” Gebre asks. “Are you exclusively breastfeeding or formula feeding, too?”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Asmara Gebre, nurse-midwife and founder, One Love Black Community\"]‘I have not met one patient that doesn’t care about their pregnancy or want the best for themselves and their baby, though there are so many factors around them that are influencing their ability to engage or not engage in the kind of quality of care that they want.’[/pullquote]Once the boxes are filled and crammed into car trunks and back seats, the volunteers caravan across San Francisco to make deliveries to expectant and new Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Sunday Show Ups” began at the start of the pandemic when Gebre noticed that few of the Black patients at her Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital clinic were taking advantage of a pantry a doctor had set up for pregnant patients. Concerned about insufficient outreach to a vulnerable population during an uncertain time, Gebre sought donations on social media for her Black patients, and the grassroots effort took off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were disparities in access to masks, access to education and factual information around the pandemic,” Gebre says. “Out of this hard period, we created a space where we can engage in conversations and give back to the community in a positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a face mask looking down and holding a cellphone stands next to a woman wearing a brown hooded sweater outside. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Love Black Community organizer Asmara Gebre speaks with expectant mother Tanisha Bell about resources for her newborn in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, on Nov. 13, 2022, during the organization’s ‘Sunday Show Up.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on Black families is personal and purposeful: Gebre, 34, was living in a home for pregnant people more than 15 years ago. She relates to the multitude of challenges her patients face. As a medical professional, she has seen Black birthing people suffer from higher rates of pregnancy-related complications and preterm births even as the city’s Black population dwindles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black birthing people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHdocs/Epi/2022/5-3%20_Disparities_in_preterm_birth_and_days_of_gestation_lost_2020-2021.pdf\">half of the city’s pregnancy-related deaths, and Black children make up 15% of infant deaths (PDF)\u003c/a> despite representing just 4% of all births. City data also shows nearly 14% of Black infants are born prematurely compared with 7.3% of white infants. It’s a cause for alarm because preterm babies are more likely to experience chronic disease, not to mention learning and behavioral difficulties in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the donations included masks, hand sanitizer, diapers, children’s books, produce and money. The cash donations allowed Gebre to distribute $200 per household — no strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her network of volunteers grew, so did her reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women standing outside with the woman on the right wearing all black and the woman on the left wearing a green jacket with a black t-shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Perkins (left) and Asmara Gebre pose for a portrait on Treasure Island after making all their deliveries during One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of her most dedicated volunteer, Cassandra Perkins — an outreach coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Public Health — they expanded their deliveries to new parents participating in the California Black Infant Health program and to pregnant people who are unhoused. They also aligned with several Bay Area initiatives that are trying to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weathering-what-are-the-health-effects-of-stress-and-discrimination\">racial inequalities to improve Black maternal health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins has spent the last 23 years working in HIV and family planning clinics in the city’s Black neighborhoods. She has an easy smile and is the kind of person who gives away books, socks and toiletries stashed in her car to people she meets on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls the Sunday Show-Ups her church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look like them, so it’s easier for them to relate to me … just to inform, educate and be of service and always treat people with dignity and respect and you get it back tenfold,” Perkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after birthing patients leave the hospital and recover at home, many of them miss out on information about services focused on Black people’s health. The home visits are filling a crucial gap in postpartum care and establishes One Love Black Community as a reliable source of information to a community wary of outsiders after experiencing decades of poverty, environmental injustice and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bayview-Hunters Point became a Black neighborhood in the 1940s as African Americans from the Gulf Coast migrated to the Bay Area to work at the nearby Navy shipyard. After World War II ended, jobs evaporated. Black people, who were limited in where they could live in San Francisco due to racist housing policy, were left languishing in the area, surrounded by pollution left over from the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they show initiative in how much they care to help you, then that’s the most helpful because they make you want to put more initiative into yourself,” says Charise Haley, who met Perkins when she was living on the streets and pregnant with her now 10-month-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley, who continues to cope with losing her partner to suicide, says she’s close to receiving a subsidized apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cassandra is one of my favorite people because if it wasn’t for her actually believing in what I can do, I probably wouldn’t be where I am right now,” she says about Perkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley was among seven women who received deliveries on one Sunday last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses puts a small child into a stroller shaped like a toy car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charise Haley picks up her son Isaiah from his toy car outside her home in San Francisco on Nov. 13, 2022, during a visit by One Love Black Community volunteers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I ride with Gebre in her SUV that’s cluttered with baby supplies in the back and her half-eaten breakfast in the front. A tireless multitasker, she also finds time to lead \u003ca href=\"https://blackcentering.ucsf.edu/\">Black Centering\u003c/a>, a program at SF General where she organizes nature walks, CPR classes and other community-building activities for expectant Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins and Katiana Carey-Simms, a midwifery student, follow in two other cars filled with supplies. Meanwhile, Gebre’s son Devin comes along to pack and haul boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We go uphill to an apartment complex overlooking the bay and meet Crystal Hill, who is receiving her first delivery from One Love Black Community. Inside her unit, football plays on the TV while Hill’s 2-month-old boy lies in a baby swing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big pots of stew simmer in the kitchen, and the aroma prompts Gebre to offer to sign Hill up for six weeks of meals delivered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.m2mpostpartum.org/nourish\">Postpartum Justice\u003c/a>, an organization that recruits Bay Area restaurants to cook nourishing meals for Black people healing from childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to start getting healthy because I have high blood pressure and diabetes that stayed with me after [pregnancy],” Hill, 40, tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a beautiful transition, just having some nice meals and sharing with the family and thinking differently,” Gebre replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short drive later, we stop at the Bayview home of a pregnant woman Perkins recently met while shopping at Safeway. Perkins urges the woman, who declines to be interviewed, to enroll in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.expectingjustice.org/\">Abundant Birth Project\u003c/a> because she is in her first trimester and thus eligible. The guaranteed income program gives $1,000 per month to a randomly selected group of Black and Pacific Islander pregnant people who face some of the greatest degrees of income inequality in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sitting on a couch holding a baby.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall holds her newborn, Harleigh Quin, at her home in Bayview on Nov. 13, 2022, while visiting with volunteers from One Love Black Community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The experiment is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayorsforagi.org/\">growing number of guaranteed income programs\u003c/a> responding to racial and economic inequality by giving unconditional cash directly to people in need. Abundant Birth’s goal is to ease financial stress for these people and improve their health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gebre stopped taking cash gifts for a while due to tax reasons, but has resumed accepting them as donations after receiving fiscal sponsorship from the San Francisco Public Health Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates 300 women have received deliveries from One Love Black Community in just over two years. This Christmas, she hopes to show up for 100 families with the help of volunteers from a Black sorority for registered nurses, Lambda Chi Chi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalls the small acts of kindness that made a big difference for her when she was raising Devin in the Santa Cruz area. Gebre volunteered at a horse ranch when Devin was a boy. When someone there saw her struggling, they slipped a surprise in the book Gebre was reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Early Childhood Education and Care' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']“I remember one day I was running out of gas and was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through this week of school.’ I opened the book and there was $100 in cash in there,” Gebre says. “There were so many moments where my community showed up for me. Little things here and there, but they add up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s driven to give back because of the support she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we reach Sabrina Hall at her home in an industrial part of the Bayview, Gebre and Perkins pitch the postpartum meals and \u003ca href=\"https://womenshealth.ucsf.edu/coe/embrace-perinatal-care-black-families\">online support group\u003c/a> for Black moms facilitated by UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, 41, says she developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy and suffered nerve damage and other complications after delivering her daughter, Harleigh Quin, three weeks early. The baby weighed just 5 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience was nonetheless an improvement from four previous pregnancies, Hall says. She participated in the guaranteed income study, and says the extra cash helped her buy baby gear and catch up on some bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my other kids, no one told me about doulas. [There was] just a lack of education,” Hall says. “This birth, I had a doula, I had Black Infant Health — you know, just the support. I had no one to speak for me with the medical office or the staff. And this time I had an advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials sitting in a cart.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials are loaded into a car to be delivered to mothers throughout San Francisco and Treasure Island as a part of One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in the car, Gebre says since the guaranteed income pilot launched two years ago, she noticed that patients who receive the money participate more actively in their prenatal care. For example, patients in transitional housing were more likely to find transportation to show up for their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not met one patient that doesn’t care about their pregnancy or want the best for themselves and their baby, though there are so many factors around them that are influencing their ability to engage or not engage in the kind of quality of care that they want,” she says. “When you’re able to provide additional resources to minimize those stress factors — that burden, that toll is no longer present — you can notice the difference in patients and how they engage in care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drives across a section of the Bay Bridge and exits onto Treasure Island, passing a housing construction project and new ferry terminal. She parks in front of a cluster of townhouses to check on her former patient Danesha Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you?” Gebre asks while hugging Johnson, who gave birth a month earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recovery is fine, no complications. I’m fine,” the 21-year-old says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnson’s partner, Darrian Burrows, comes out to carry the supplies inside, Gebre tells Perkins that he assisted her in the delivery room and caught his daughter when Johnson made her final push. Perkins remembers seeing him in the hospital when Johnson was in labor, and she’s overcome with emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was so beautiful for you to be in the tub with her when she was going through labor to help ease things,” she says as tears fill her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re giving me the chills, because I work in our communities of color and they’re always giving our men a hard time,” Perkins continues. “And some programs, there’s something for the mom and the baby but they don’t want the dad involved. So just to see you all as a couple and loving one another and having a baby brung into this world together … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bearing witness to a happy, healthy birth makes her want to keep this thing going, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 30: This story has been updated to reflect that One Love Black Community is inclusive of all Black people accessing reproductive services in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\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>Once the boxes are filled and crammed into car trunks and back seats, the volunteers caravan across San Francisco to make deliveries to expectant and new Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “Sunday Show Ups” began at the start of the pandemic when Gebre noticed that few of the Black patients at her Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital clinic were taking advantage of a pantry a doctor had set up for pregnant patients. Concerned about insufficient outreach to a vulnerable population during an uncertain time, Gebre sought donations on social media for her Black patients, and the grassroots effort took off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were disparities in access to masks, access to education and factual information around the pandemic,” Gebre says. “Out of this hard period, we created a space where we can engage in conversations and give back to the community in a positive way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a face mask looking down and holding a cellphone stands next to a woman wearing a brown hooded sweater outside. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/029_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One Love Black Community organizer Asmara Gebre speaks with expectant mother Tanisha Bell about resources for her newborn in Bayview-Hunters Point, San Francisco, on Nov. 13, 2022, during the organization’s ‘Sunday Show Up.’ \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The focus on Black families is personal and purposeful: Gebre, 34, was living in a home for pregnant people more than 15 years ago. She relates to the multitude of challenges her patients face. As a medical professional, she has seen Black birthing people suffer from higher rates of pregnancy-related complications and preterm births even as the city’s Black population dwindles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Black birthing people make up \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/MCHdocs/Epi/2022/5-3%20_Disparities_in_preterm_birth_and_days_of_gestation_lost_2020-2021.pdf\">half of the city’s pregnancy-related deaths, and Black children make up 15% of infant deaths (PDF)\u003c/a> despite representing just 4% of all births. City data also shows nearly 14% of Black infants are born prematurely compared with 7.3% of white infants. It’s a cause for alarm because preterm babies are more likely to experience chronic disease, not to mention learning and behavioral difficulties in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the donations included masks, hand sanitizer, diapers, children’s books, produce and money. The cash donations allowed Gebre to distribute $200 per household — no strings attached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As her network of volunteers grew, so did her reach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933208\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933208\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two women standing outside with the woman on the right wearing all black and the woman on the left wearing a green jacket with a black t-shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/063_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Perkins (left) and Asmara Gebre pose for a portrait on Treasure Island after making all their deliveries during One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>With the help of her most dedicated volunteer, Cassandra Perkins — an outreach coordinator for the San Francisco Department of Public Health — they expanded their deliveries to new parents participating in the California Black Infant Health program and to pregnant people who are unhoused. They also aligned with several Bay Area initiatives that are trying to address \u003ca href=\"https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/weathering-what-are-the-health-effects-of-stress-and-discrimination\">racial inequalities to improve Black maternal health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins has spent the last 23 years working in HIV and family planning clinics in the city’s Black neighborhoods. She has an easy smile and is the kind of person who gives away books, socks and toiletries stashed in her car to people she meets on the street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She calls the Sunday Show-Ups her church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look like them, so it’s easier for them to relate to me … just to inform, educate and be of service and always treat people with dignity and respect and you get it back tenfold,” Perkins says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said after birthing patients leave the hospital and recover at home, many of them miss out on information about services focused on Black people’s health. The home visits are filling a crucial gap in postpartum care and establishes One Love Black Community as a reliable source of information to a community wary of outsiders after experiencing decades of poverty, environmental injustice and racial discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bayview-Hunters Point became a Black neighborhood in the 1940s as African Americans from the Gulf Coast migrated to the Bay Area to work at the nearby Navy shipyard. After World War II ended, jobs evaporated. Black people, who were limited in where they could live in San Francisco due to racist housing policy, were left languishing in the area, surrounded by pollution left over from the shipyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they show initiative in how much they care to help you, then that’s the most helpful because they make you want to put more initiative into yourself,” says Charise Haley, who met Perkins when she was living on the streets and pregnant with her now 10-month-old son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley, who continues to cope with losing her partner to suicide, says she’s close to receiving a subsidized apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cassandra is one of my favorite people because if it wasn’t for her actually believing in what I can do, I probably wouldn’t be where I am right now,” she says about Perkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haley was among seven women who received deliveries on one Sunday last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933209\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933209\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses puts a small child into a stroller shaped like a toy car.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/043_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charise Haley picks up her son Isaiah from his toy car outside her home in San Francisco on Nov. 13, 2022, during a visit by One Love Black Community volunteers. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I ride with Gebre in her SUV that’s cluttered with baby supplies in the back and her half-eaten breakfast in the front. A tireless multitasker, she also finds time to lead \u003ca href=\"https://blackcentering.ucsf.edu/\">Black Centering\u003c/a>, a program at SF General where she organizes nature walks, CPR classes and other community-building activities for expectant Black parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perkins and Katiana Carey-Simms, a midwifery student, follow in two other cars filled with supplies. Meanwhile, Gebre’s son Devin comes along to pack and haul boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We go uphill to an apartment complex overlooking the bay and meet Crystal Hill, who is receiving her first delivery from One Love Black Community. Inside her unit, football plays on the TV while Hill’s 2-month-old boy lies in a baby swing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big pots of stew simmer in the kitchen, and the aroma prompts Gebre to offer to sign Hill up for six weeks of meals delivered by \u003ca href=\"https://www.m2mpostpartum.org/nourish\">Postpartum Justice\u003c/a>, an organization that recruits Bay Area restaurants to cook nourishing meals for Black people healing from childbirth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need to start getting healthy because I have high blood pressure and diabetes that stayed with me after [pregnancy],” Hill, 40, tells her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This would be a beautiful transition, just having some nice meals and sharing with the family and thinking differently,” Gebre replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A short drive later, we stop at the Bayview home of a pregnant woman Perkins recently met while shopping at Safeway. Perkins urges the woman, who declines to be interviewed, to enroll in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.expectingjustice.org/\">Abundant Birth Project\u003c/a> because she is in her first trimester and thus eligible. The guaranteed income program gives $1,000 per month to a randomly selected group of Black and Pacific Islander pregnant people who face some of the greatest degrees of income inequality in one of the nation’s most expensive cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933210\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman sitting on a couch holding a baby.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/037_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sabrina Hall holds her newborn, Harleigh Quin, at her home in Bayview on Nov. 13, 2022, while visiting with volunteers from One Love Black Community. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The experiment is part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.mayorsforagi.org/\">growing number of guaranteed income programs\u003c/a> responding to racial and economic inequality by giving unconditional cash directly to people in need. Abundant Birth’s goal is to ease financial stress for these people and improve their health outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gebre stopped taking cash gifts for a while due to tax reasons, but has resumed accepting them as donations after receiving fiscal sponsorship from the San Francisco Public Health Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She estimates 300 women have received deliveries from One Love Black Community in just over two years. This Christmas, she hopes to show up for 100 families with the help of volunteers from a Black sorority for registered nurses, Lambda Chi Chi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recalls the small acts of kindness that made a big difference for her when she was raising Devin in the Santa Cruz area. Gebre volunteered at a horse ranch when Devin was a boy. When someone there saw her struggling, they slipped a surprise in the book Gebre was reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I remember one day I was running out of gas and was like, ‘I don’t know how I’m going to get through this week of school.’ I opened the book and there was $100 in cash in there,” Gebre says. “There were so many moments where my community showed up for me. Little things here and there, but they add up.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s driven to give back because of the support she received.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When we reach Sabrina Hall at her home in an industrial part of the Bayview, Gebre and Perkins pitch the postpartum meals and \u003ca href=\"https://womenshealth.ucsf.edu/coe/embrace-perinatal-care-black-families\">online support group\u003c/a> for Black moms facilitated by UC San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall, 41, says she developed gestational diabetes during pregnancy and suffered nerve damage and other complications after delivering her daughter, Harleigh Quin, three weeks early. The baby weighed just 5 pounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience was nonetheless an improvement from four previous pregnancies, Hall says. She participated in the guaranteed income study, and says the extra cash helped her buy baby gear and catch up on some bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With my other kids, no one told me about doulas. [There was] just a lack of education,” Hall says. “This birth, I had a doula, I had Black Infant Health — you know, just the support. I had no one to speak for me with the medical office or the staff. And this time I had an advocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11933204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11933204\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials sitting in a cart.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/11/016_KQED_OneLoveBlackCommunity_11132022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boxes filled with diapers, formula and other essentials are loaded into a car to be delivered to mothers throughout San Francisco and Treasure Island as a part of One Love Black Community’s ‘Sunday Show Up’ on Nov. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Back in the car, Gebre says since the guaranteed income pilot launched two years ago, she noticed that patients who receive the money participate more actively in their prenatal care. For example, patients in transitional housing were more likely to find transportation to show up for their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not met one patient that doesn’t care about their pregnancy or want the best for themselves and their baby, though there are so many factors around them that are influencing their ability to engage or not engage in the kind of quality of care that they want,” she says. “When you’re able to provide additional resources to minimize those stress factors — that burden, that toll is no longer present — you can notice the difference in patients and how they engage in care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She drives across a section of the Bay Bridge and exits onto Treasure Island, passing a housing construction project and new ferry terminal. She parks in front of a cluster of townhouses to check on her former patient Danesha Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How are you?” Gebre asks while hugging Johnson, who gave birth a month earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The recovery is fine, no complications. I’m fine,” the 21-year-old says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Johnson’s partner, Darrian Burrows, comes out to carry the supplies inside, Gebre tells Perkins that he assisted her in the delivery room and caught his daughter when Johnson made her final push. Perkins remembers seeing him in the hospital when Johnson was in labor, and she’s overcome with emotions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was so beautiful for you to be in the tub with her when she was going through labor to help ease things,” she says as tears fill her eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re giving me the chills, because I work in our communities of color and they’re always giving our men a hard time,” Perkins continues. “And some programs, there’s something for the mom and the baby but they don’t want the dad involved. So just to see you all as a couple and loving one another and having a baby brung into this world together … .”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bearing witness to a happy, healthy birth makes her want to keep this thing going, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Nov. 30: This story has been updated to reflect that One Love Black Community is inclusive of all Black people accessing reproductive services in San Francisco.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Recent changes in San Francisco and on the statewide level mean it could soon be easier to navigate the process of finding publicly funded care and education for children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, San Francisco launched the city’s new \u003ca href=\"https://sfdec.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Early Childhood\u003c/a>. The department promises to provide children under 6 with expanded access to child care and education with the backing of nearly $300 million in funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Early Childhood Education and Care' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']And at the state level, two recent developments aim to streamline the search and enrollment process: A few weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will cut layers of red tape for families applying for subsidized child care and preschool. Services for children and families are typically spread across multiple state agencies, forcing parents to go from one office to another to apply for services, frequently redocumenting the same income and other eligibility information. The new law (\u003ca href=\"https://earlyedgecalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/SB-1047-Factsheet_Childcare-for-Infants-and-Toddlers.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SB 1047, by state Senator Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara\u003c/a>) cuts the paperwork and eases the enrollment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On October 11, the state also launched a new search website at \u003ca href=\"http://Mychildcareplan.org\">Mychildcareplan.org\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the current early childhood education landscape in San Francisco, and how is it changing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED’s Natalia Navarro, Ingrid Mezquita, executive director of the new Department of Early Childhood in San Francisco, described the current early care and education system in San Francisco as very decentralized, mirroring most other state and national systems. “They have different tuition rates. They have different funding availability, whether it’s from the state or the feds,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new department is aiming to unify these resources and services. “Families [will] have access to the information that they need, not only around what’s available in their neighborhood or in the area that they’re looking for, but also what financing is available for their child care,” she said. This will allow families to see whether they are eligible for federal, state or local funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will this new department work to ensure equity in the kinds of families that it serves?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Our focus is always going to be families who are in greatest need,” Mezquita said. “We want to make sure that the services and supports are meaningful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said their goal is to reduce or eliminate racial disparities. “We’re in this unique position where not only are we going to be funding child care, but we’re also looking at children in a holistic way,” she said. She said this will include looking at comprehensive services and ensuring there are no gaps or missing links to support children and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>When are you expecting expanded services to be available to families?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We were just approved as a new department, so we’re building that infrastructure,” said Mezquita. “We’ve already expanded eligibility for families who are making up to 110% of area median income, meaning that if you’re making roughly around $120,000 or below, you may be eligible for child care financing through our department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will families benefit from the merging of two separate departments?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said the information will soon be in a centralized place, and the department will be able to provide families information in multiple languages, “not only for their child care, but also for their child’s well-being,” she added. “San Francisco has an array of services and supports for families. And one of the most difficult thing has been being able to find them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When can San Francisco families access the information?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Mezquita said she’s hoping it will be accessible in the next few months. “We already have a portal, which is where families can find child care: \u003ca href=\"https://www.earlylearningsf.org/#/Dashboard\">Early Learning San Francisco\u003c/a>. You can easily find child care in your area. You can see what you’re eligible for in case you’re eligible for any financial assistance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I access the California State Preschool Program?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If your family is seeking access to the California State Preschool Program, you’re automatically eligible for the early education program if you’re already enrolled in Medi-Cal, CalFresh, WIC or Head Start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once your child is enrolled, the new law guarantees two years of care and education. 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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. When she began comparing notes with other child care agencies in Southern California, the number grew to 100.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her findings prompted a statewide survey of government-contracted early education programs last month. According to the survey, which had about a 20% response rate, there are a total of almost 1,300 unfilled teacher positions. That means, overall, these programs serving the state’s children from lower-income families could be missing 4,000 to 5,000 teachers, according to Christopher Maricle, executive director of Head Start California, which conducted the survey along with the advocacy group EveryChild California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The staggering numbers didn’t surprise him. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Low wages were driving away early childhood educators, who are overwhelmingly women of color, long before the pandemic began. 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. In previous years, a teacher could lead a TK classroom of up to 31 students. But starting this school year, the ratio dramatically lowered to one teacher for every 12 students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The demand will require \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/ca-transitional-kindergarten-workforce-brief\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">upward of 15,500 new teachers and 19,500 teacher aides\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by full implementation, according to estimates by the Learning Policy Institute in Palo Alto. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tens of thousands of teachers at home- or community-based preschools who already have a college degree and experience working with 4-year-olds \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cscce.berkeley.edu/publications/data-snapshot/double-or-nothing-potential-tk-wages-for-californias-early-educators/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">could be qualified to teach TK\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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. So while we know that it means we’ve got to lose some teachers, and that’s hard, we know it’s best for them,” he said. “It makes us work harder to increase our wages and benefits even more.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Early Childhood Education and Care' tag='early-childhood-education-and-care']\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">He believes more competitive salaries will attract new workers and create a pipeline of teachers starting in early childhood education and advancing to higher grade levels.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the meantime, child care providers are offering retention bonuses, pay raises, mental health support and other incentives to try to keep the teachers they have. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At Old Gallinas Children’s Center in San Rafael, providers closed three classrooms to avoid staff burnout. The school strictly requires one teacher for every eight children. 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. Today, just under 500 are enrolled, according to Chandra Alexandre, CEO of Community Action Marin. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Although the county has a reputation of being one of the nation’s wealthiest, census figures show 6% of residents live in poverty.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many providers blend federal and state funding to better pay teachers and offer year-round, full-day preschool to accommodate working families. Moore, the CEO of Kidango in Fremont, said higher state reimbursement rates for serving 3-year-olds, dual language learners and children with special needs has allowed him to increase wages.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local governments are also stepping up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In San Francisco, more than 2,000 teachers and assistant teachers are getting a bump in their paychecks this month as the city institutes a $28-per-hour minimum wage by relying on funds from a commercial real estate tax that was passed by voters. In Alameda County, voters passed a sales tax measure in March 2020 to boost child care workers’ wages, but the money is being held in an account pending a legal challenge by a taxpayers’ association.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meanwhile, the National Head Start Association is lobbying Congress to increase compensation for teachers by at least $2.5 billion per year. 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