I Support Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge 2013
Posted: October 14, 2013 | Author: Debbie Ellis | Filed under: "Race to the Top", Administration for Children and Families, Allies for Quality Care, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Advisory Council, Child Care Development Fund, Child Care Licensing, Child Care Mississippi, DECCD-MDHS, e-Childcare™, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), General, Head Start, Hechinger Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Mississippi Board of Health, Mississippi Building Blocks, Mississippi First, Mississippi Health Department, Mississippi Legislature, MS Department of Education, MS Department of Human Services, Office of the Attorney General, QRS Mississippi, Quality Rating System, School Readiness, School Readiness Mississippi, SECAC, SECAC Mississippi, T.E.A.C.H., Uncategorized, Xerox | Tags: "Race to the Top", 2007 Market Survey Rates, Administration for Children and Families, Allies for Quality Care, CCPP-approved Provider, Child Care Licensing, child care licensing Mississippi, child care Mississippi, child care quality rating systems Mississippi, DECCD, DECCD-MDHS, e-Childcare™, Early Childhood Education Mississippi, Early Learning Guidelines (ELG), equal access, Kellogg Foundation, MDHS, Mississippi Child Care Quality Steps, Mississippi Child Care Resource and Referral, Mississippi early childhood education, Mississippi Quality Stars, Quality Rating System; DECCD-MDHS; CCDF Quality Improvement, Quality Rating Systems, SECAC, SECAC Mississippi, The Mississippi Center for Education Innovation |Leave a commentI Support Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge 2013
I support the Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge 2013, because I do not support one more penny spent on Mississippi Quality Stars!
I will never support required QRIS participation, Health Department licensing regulatory manipulation or unfunded mandates that would create further disparate intent for the work force support system serving the largest group of targeted population or that would send the private market rate over the top for all young middle class parents at the start of their careers.
The good news is, the RTT-ELC application to be submitted will announce a new voluntary measure of quality to be developed and designed and one in which we, self-employed providers, will have a seat at the table as one of the largest groups of any early learning system.
I know this because Dr. Laurie Smith has met privately with provider groups and sought input from child care provider leadership. She understands, from all the research, the necessary buy-in of all child care provider groups to the success of any early learning system.
Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge 2013, may just be the first opportunity for us to participate in an equitable way in the development of a measure of quality acceptable to the self-employed child care industry and may even result in a validated approach to actually improve child outcomes by 2016!
It is idealistic to think this way, but if we are to spend millions and millions more in “quality funding streams” each and every year while preventing low-income parents the opportunity to work because much of that allowable money was not spent in certificates of assistance and the parents could not afford child care otherwise, at least let us spend it in an accountable way.
Either develop an affordable, acceptable and validated measure of quality (QRIS) or get rid of it!
Race to the Top – Early Learning Challenge begins that work.
Email Letters of Support tomorrow to:
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