Advocacy at Our State Board of Education

10/05/19 • 44 min

Shaun Rose, a former litigator, public school teacher, and political advisor, and current nonprofit, center based child care provider, discusses child care advocacy at the Maryland State Board of Education. The written testimony Shaun and Ross submitted can be found starting at p.3 of the linked pdf and here are links to the audit showing deficiencies with paperwork and background checks and the article about the previous audit. Links to some of the other topics raised: infant & toddler innovative idea request in Indiana, Joe Biden's child care v school debate comment, the latest bipartisan Senate proposal - Small Business Childcare Investment Act, the Kirwan Commission and Shaun's post on "The Problems with Pre-K from a Provider Perspective". The other Podcast referenced was That Early Childhood Nerd, episode 119 "Using Our Voice" (and sorry, I think I said she was from Illinois and I meant to say Indiana).
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Shaun Rose, a center based provider, and Jacqueline Grant, a family child care provider, discuss feedback on their 1st two podcasts and their opportunities to advocate both the Executive and Legislative branches of government. Shaun references a book review related to the debate between formal instruction & assessment vs. less formal instruction focused on play which can be found here: https://www.educationnext.org/more-play-will-save-our-schools-book-claims-review-let-the-children-play-sahlberg-doyle/. To connect with them and share your own opinions and stories, visit ChildCareAdvocacy.Org or follow them on Twitter (@ChildCareAdvoc) and Facebook (ChildCareAdvocacy.Org).

Shaun Rose, a former litigator, public school teacher, and political advisor, and current nonprofit, center based child care provider, interviews Elliot Haspel, author of Crawling Behind: America's Child Care Crisis and How to Fix It. Elliot and Shaun discuss the issues with our current system of child care, including the difficult & often illogical choices we have to make in an under-resourced system, and Elliot's ideas about what we need to do fix things.
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