Leaders representing all segments of California’s education system share their reactions to the governor’s 2023-24 January budget proposal for early education.
There is some evidence that California immigrant families are already disenrolling their children from public benefit programs, even though they are still eligible.
Educators and the public do not have data that "in my view greatly improve students' performance and their ultimate employment," said Sen. Steve Glazer (D – Orinda), chair of the select committee on student success in the Senate.
Home visiting nurses like Patty Leal offer pregnancy advice, monitor child development and explain parenting techniques to women who are young, low-income, or struggling with domestic abuse. They begin working with new mothers in the first or second trimester and continue until the child turns 2.
