{"id":45810,"date":"2016-05-24T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/childrens-advocates-release-statewide-poll-results-in-california-state-budget-fight\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T15:58:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T19:58:02","slug":"defensores-de-los-ninos-divulgan-resultados-de-encuestas-a-nivel-estatal-en-la-lucha-por-el-presupuesto-estatal-de-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/defensores-de-los-ninos-divulgan-resultados-de-encuestas-a-nivel-estatal-en-la-lucha-por-el-presupuesto-estatal-de-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Advocates Release Statewide Poll Results in California State Budget Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"><![CDATA[\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n]]><\/style>\n<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 24, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <b>The California Coalition for Equity in Early Care<\/b> <b>and Education<\/b> and <u>Lake Research Partners<\/u> today released results from a statewide poll of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> voters demonstrating wide support for using a portion of <span class=\"xn-location\">California&#8217;s<\/span> estimated <span class=\"xn-money\">$8 billion<\/span> state budget surplus to increase funding for child development programs.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition is asking Governor <span class=\"xn-person\">Jerry Brown<\/span> and the leaders of the California Legislature to approve the <span class=\"xn-money\">$ 800 million<\/span> budget plan of the California Legislative Women&#8217;s Caucus.<\/p>\n<p>Presently 236,000 children and their families are being priced out of high quality nonprofit programs; qualified but underpaid teachers and staff are unable to continue working in their chosen field, and estimated waiting lists for working parents top over 300,000. <\/p>\n<p>Please see &#8220;Voices for Equity&#8221; below, and visit the following links for the statewide polling results:<\/p>\n<p>Slides <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeresearch.com\/images\/share\/CCEECE.slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.lakeresearch.com\/images\/share\/CCEECE.slides.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memo <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeresearch.com\/images\/share\/CCEECE.findings.memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.lakeresearch.com\/images\/share\/CCEECE.findings.memo.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><u>Voices for Equity in <span class=\"xn-location\">California&#8217;s<\/span> Early Care and Education Programs:<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Voters think we need to do more than we are currently doing to ensure children enter kindergarten with the skills they need to do their best. A six in 10 majority favor increasing state funding to ensure that all children have access to quality programs, including a strong majority who favor even if it increased their taxes.&#8221; <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Celinda Lake<\/span>, Principal, Lake Research Partners <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The California Legislative Women&#8217;s Caucus remains committed to prioritizing a strong investment in early care and education so children can learn and parents can work. An investment in our earliest learners is prudent, keeps Californians working and prevents costly academic interventions and consequences later on.&#8221; <b>Senator <span class=\"xn-person\">Hannah Beth Jackson<\/span> <\/b><b>(D-<span class=\"xn-location\">Santa Barbara<\/span>) Chair, Ca. Legislative Women&#8217;s Caucus<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can stay within the pocketbook, invest more in people, be creative in our investment, and ensure that people are better taken care of so that they can contribute to our society and our tax base. Ultimately, this is about supporting individuals in becoming the best they can be. Our budget does not go far enough to nurture that. I challenge the Governor and my colleagues to do more of what he did with prison rehabilitation, extending that innovative rationale to children in early care and education, and on welfare.&#8221; <b>Senator <span class=\"xn-person\">Holly Mitchell<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Brown needs to support the Legislative Women&#8217;s Caucus&#8217; call for <span class=\"xn-money\">$800 million<\/span> to save early childhood education. This is an easy choice and not one penny of taxes needs to be raised. If the Governor of <span class=\"xn-location\">Alabama<\/span> can find <span class=\"xn-money\">$800 million<\/span> to build prisons, our great Governor of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> can find a way from surplus funds to provide <span class=\"xn-money\">$800 million<\/span> to invest in our children&#8217;s future.&#8221; <b>Ca. Congressman <span class=\"xn-person\">George Miller<\/span> (ret.), past Chair, House Committee on Education and Labor, past Chair House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;State wide the California Early Care and Education community is united. We need to end the funding drought that has plagued nonprofit providers since the Great Recession.&#8221; <b>AssemblyMember <span class=\"xn-person\">Ted Lempert<\/span> (ret.) President and CEO, Children Now<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Governor Brown and the Legislature need to save early childhood education. Budgeting <span class=\"xn-money\">$800 million<\/span> to save early childhood education is a moral choice as well as a practical choice. Turning our backs on kids who are brimming with happiness and hope is like saying that &#8216;Failure is OK, because we really don&#8217;t care&#8217;. Governor Brown, Senators, and Assembly Members: you all need to care now. Save early childhood education.&#8221; <b>Mr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Santiago Ruiz<\/span>&#8211; Co-Chair, Ca. Coalition for Equity in Early Care and Education <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> employers understand that investing early in children&#8217;s education will pay huge economic and social dividends in the decades to come. Recent studies show that California&#8217;s job market will be facing a deficit of over 1 million college graduates by 2030. The time to address that problem is right now and the way to do it is by investing in early education programs.&#8221; <b>Mr. <span class=\"xn-person\">Jim Wunderman<\/span>, CEO, Bay Area Council <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saving early childhood education programs is the smartest choice an elected official can make. Voters want investments in early childhood education, and they will remember who chose to care about the future of our youngest Californians and who chose to ignore them.&#8221; <b>Ms. <span class=\"xn-person\">Liz Burns<\/span>, Community Action Marin <\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I earned a college degree and chose a career in Early Childhood Education and now I&#8217;m barely making it in terms of food and shelter. I love my work, it&#8217;s my calling. Yet I don&#8217;t know how long I can continue doing this most rewarding work. Minds are most eager at the youngest ages. And the thirst for knowledge that children gain through early childhood education easily translates to success in life.&#8221; <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Sally Swift<\/span>, ECE teacher at a nonprofit agency serving low income families<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is up to us to defend our children from the shortsightedness of the Sacramento Scrooges. The money that <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> invests in our children today will be money that won&#8217;t have to be spent tomorrow to deal with dropouts, unemployment, or mass incarceration.&#8221; <b><span class=\"xn-person\">Ana Sanchez<\/span>&#8211; ECE working parent with a child enrolled at a nonprofit agency serving low income families<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Contact: <span class=\"xn-person\">Jim Gonzalez<\/span>, 916 233 8526 <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"xn-person\">Celinda Lake<\/span>, 202 776 9066 <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xn-content\">\n<p><span class=\"xn-location\">SACRAMENTO, California<\/span>, <span class=\"xn-chron\">May 24, 2016<\/span> \/PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE\/ &#8212; <b>The California Coalition for Equity in Early Care<\/b> <b>and Education<\/b> and <u>Lake Research Partners<\/u> today released results from a statewide poll of <span class=\"xn-location\">California<\/span> voters demonstrating wide support for using a portion of <span class=\"xn-location\">California&#8217;s<\/span> estimated <span class=\"xn-money\">$8 billion<\/span> state budget surplus to increase funding for child development&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educacion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hispanicprwire.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}