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SPONSOR: |
Russell |
DATE TYPED: |
01/25/02 |
HB |
HJM 29 |
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SHORT TITLE: |
Head Start & Child Care Collaboration |
SB |
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ANALYST: |
Dunbar |
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APPROPRIATION
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Appropriation
Contained |
Estimated
Additional Impact |
Recurring or Non-Rec |
Fund Affected |
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FY02 |
FY03 |
FY02 |
FY03 |
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$0.1 |
See Narrative |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Relates: HB 102, Statewide Early Childhood Programs
Children Youth and Families Department (CYFD)
State Department of Education (SDE)
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
The Joint Memorial
requests CYFD to create a task force to develop a plan to expand the current
collaboration model between Head Start providers and other childcare providers,
both public and private. This memorial
requests that CYFD present the plan and any legislative recommendations to the
appropriate committee by October 2002.
Significant
Issues
Many Head Start
programs in New Mexico are currently serving the maximum number of children
allowed given their physical capacity.
The Head Start Collaboration initiative is designed to increase both
capacity and quality of services by partnering Head Start with local childcare
providers, training the latter in the Head Start Performance Standards. According to CYFD, the department is developing
a plan for this collaboration, which will include the cooperation and input of
childcare experts and childcare advocates as well as the Head Start community.
CYFD notes that this joint memorial would formalize the planning process
already underway in CYFD and consequently the memorial is not necessary.
Since there is no appropriation attached to this memorial, CYFD would have to absorb any fiscal impact.
RELATIONSHIP
Relates to HB 102,
Statewide Early Childhood Programs
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
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Faith Wohl of the National Child Care Action
Campaign has stated that “high quality child care programs serve both parents
and children and enhance the life and development of both. Children are best served when the programs
are developed and overseen by people with a background in early education and
child development.” The department administers the following child
care programs: §
Title 1 William F. Goodling Even Start
Family Literacy Program serves infants, toddlers and children, birth to 7
years old in a joint parent-child program. §
The New Mexico Even Start Family
Literacy Initiative also provides a parent-child program for toddlers and
children, ages 3-5. §
There are 170 schools in 44 school
districts serving five-year-old children in Full-Day Kindergarten programs. §
The New Mexico Works School Age Program
serves children 5-8 years of age before school hours, after school, during
holidays and in the summer. §
The Graduation, Reality and Dual-Role
Skills program (GRADS) serves infants and toddlers in a joint program with
their teenage mother. |
AMENDMENTS
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The sponsor may wish to include: ·
the State Department of Education as a
member of the task force, ·
the business community, tribal entities
as well as statewide municipal associations for membership, |
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