The new California Master Plan for Early Learning and Care was conceived during a pandemic.  During this time, our field was in survival and crisis mode, unable to significantly participate in the plan’s development.  As a consequence, the plan does not reflect the concerns and aspirations of our educators.

OUR REQUESTS

1. Slow down implementation of the Master Plan to allow for a robustly inclusive process including public debate.
2. Do not transition resources from the Department of Education to the Department of Social Services in 2021. 
3. Invite and prioritize input from early care educators in the creation of new systems and processes. 
4. Focus resources on improving the lives of families, children and early care educators instead of investing in consultants and research.
5. Change the compensation equation so that neither families nor providers bear the cost of quality alone. 
6. Reimagine professional development for early care educators to focus on job-embedded observation and reflection. 
7. Recognize that early childhood education is different from, but critical to, K-12. 
8. Provide robust business support for family child care homes and smaller programs. 
9. Reconsider investment in transitional kindergarten in favor of strengthening systems for all zero to five year olds.
10. Avoid one-size-fits all solutions, focusing instead on inviting the creation of a 'menu' of solutions centering diversity and equity and offering local control.

Please join the San Francisco Educators for Equity in the efforts to take these concerns and recommendations to our governor and state leaders.  You can find more detail on our ten proposals in this letter. Join us by signing this petition and making our educator voices heard.