Good afternoon, everybody. I want to thank the Colonial Early Education Program here in calyx and for hosting us tonight. You know, i just met sara johnson who i thought i saw sara somewhere in here but she has a three year old son know who is a student here. She said this program thats wonders helping noaa learn his letters and numbers and socialize with other kids and understand his emotions and develop his personality. I bet he is a bright, cute young man. But like so many parents, she is worried. He is worried about her job as a dental assistant and vouching changes, and what she has to do to make things work. Shes nosing changes in noaas behavior since he hasnt been in school since march. As a matter of fact, he said to the principal, where is my teacher, can i stay here in play, we are in his classroom and she has had to learn to lean on parents, which many, many people have to do, to help her get through it and is really tough. Parents like sara and places like the center and th
I want to thank the Colonial Early Education Program here in calyx and for hosting us tonight. You know, i just met sara johnson who i thought i saw sara somewhere in here but she has a three year old son know who is a student here. She said this program thats wonders helping noaa learn his letters and numbers and socialize with other kids and understand his emotions and develop his personality. I bet he is a bright, cute young man. But like so many parents, she is worried. He is worried about her job as a dental assistant and vouching changes, and what she has to do to make things work. Shes nosing changes in noaas behavior since he hasnt been in school since march. As a matter of fact, he said to the principal, where is my teacher, can i stay here in play, we are in his classroom and she has had to learn to lean on parents, which many, many people have to do, to help her get through it and is really tough. Parents like sara and places like the center and the caregivers and educators
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Then lastly, we all know that research that the money we invest in our young kids is basically pays humongous dividends at the end of the day. The last person that gave Public Comments asked a question, did you get to hear that . I think you have answers for that, would you like to address the issue of how do you monitor this business of these programs . Interview thank you supervisor. Again director of the office early care and education and in response to the question what committees are oversight do we have for this work of oec generally and im pleased to say we have a ninemember Citizens Advisory Committee seated half by the mayor and half by the board of supervisors of qualified parents and practitioners to help advise our work and provide accountability and Program Improvements for the City Investments and Early Childhood to make sure that theyre working as well as they can for both parents and programs. They meet by monthly and where data informed and also advise outside of meet
Due just have more kids when you have the teacher, like some afternoon programs in the past depending on the structure you could have 30, 50 kids it doesnt matter and so that could lower the cost and just charge the parents more. Right, followup on the question, first it has to do with the ratio of the number of educators to children and talk about quality, thats a really important component of quality to have the right level of supervision and support at a health and safety measure and also the level support to facilitate learning to be september 11th. We support the handful very small number of facilities that have infant toddler care and i believe it to be two and we support that work and theyre primarily a preschool provider given the way they organize the history but they do support infant and toddler care toddlers and some of their classrooms and theyre part of our system and they receive city funding and they are also great contribute ors and that question about quality in addit