NEW REPORT
The nation’s early care and education systems are gravely inequitable. Opportunity gaps between children from historically marginalized communities and their peers are consistent, wide, and consequential. In the summer of 2020, The Children’s Equity Project and the Bipartisan Policy Center came together to create an actionable policy roadmap for states and the federal government—as well as for candidates at all levels of government vying for office—to take meaningful steps to remedy these inequities. Read Start with Equity: From the Early Years to the Early Grade.
As a follow up to that work, the Children’s Equity Project developed a new report focusing on the state of equity in California’s early care and learning systems in the three key issues covered in the Start with Equity national report:
- harsh discipline and its disproportionate application
- lack of inclusive learning opportunities for children with disabilities, and
- inequitable access to bilingual learning for dual language learners.
The authors provide a California-specific policy agenda to inform the state’s Master Plan for Early Care and Learning and to build more equitable systems for the state’s youngest learners.
NATIONAL WEBINAR
Co-hosted by The Children’s Partnership, The Children’s Equity Project, the Center for District Innovation and Learning in Early Education and Advancement Project California, the webinar offers a dialogue on early childhood inequities in discipline, disabilities and dual language learning and what California can do to help level the playing field for young children.
The webinar shared the findings of the new report, “Start with Equity: CA,” which builds on the report released over the summer by The Children’s Equity Project, Start with Equity: From the Early Years to the Early Grades. The original report lays out an actionable policy roadmap for states and the federal government—as well as for candidates at all levels of government vying for office this fall—to take meaningful steps to remedy the vast inequities in early learning and education systems. The new report offers California opportunities to respond.
Webinar Details:
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2020, 2PM
Recording: Click Here
