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Title: Teachers of Preschool-Age Children in California
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: Early care and education (ECE) programs for children prior to kindergarten in California are provided through a mixed delivery system that includes licensed home- and center-based programs as well as school settings. Parents make decisions about what type of program(s) their children attend based on a combination of factors such as culturally affirmative practices, cost, schedule, and location. Most ECE services must be purchased by parents; public funding is limited, and if subsidized access to early care and education is available, it is typically linked to income eligibility. As a result, many children who qualify for ECE don’t have access. Furthermore, the financial resources available to a program often depend on what families can afford to pay, not necessarily the true costs to provide services. The requirements, experience, and supports for educators vary widely across settings, depending more on funding sources and regulatory status and less on what educators and children may need. This situation is typical across the ECE system for children from infancy through preschool, though California has made substantial changes in providing preschool for four-year-olds. Transitional Kindergarten (TK) was introduced into this mix in the 2012-13 school year. As of the 2022-23 school year, TK became the only free, universal ECE program in California available for four-year-olds. In this brief, we compare the experiences of educators who lead their respective classrooms.
Url: https://cscce.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/CSCCE-Teachers-of-Preschool-CA.pdf
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Authors: Powell, Anna; Montoya, Elena; Austin, Lea J.E.; Kim, Yoonjeon; Muruvi, Wanzi; Petig, Abby Copeman
Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
Data Collections: IPUMS USA, IPUMS CPS
Topics: Education
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