On this GAYC Policy Page you can find out about current issues, policy initiatives including the GAYC Women's Voices Project, links to take action, enter your story about your search to find quality affordable care and register to receive GAYC policy alerts.

 GAYC Women’sVoices for Child Care Project

Interested in quality, accessibility and affordability issues in early care and learning?  So is GAYC.  Find out more about this project originally funded by the Atlanta Women’s Foundation and how to get involved. Download the Georgia Women's Voices Call to Action flyer and the Women's Voices for Child Care Brochure below. 

 

View Our GAYC Women's Voices Project Photo Journal

(Click the Link Below)

 

http://bit.ly/GAYC-WVCCP 

 

 Current Issues and Events 

 

 Download the GAYC 2013 Policy Agenda at the bottom of this page. Current funding issues include Pre-K, Home Visiting, and Child care subsidies. Other ongoing policy issues include quality, standards,and accreditation.

Federal Commission Urges Bold Steps to Boost Education Equity - 2013
A federally appointed education-equity commission is proposing a five-pronged agenda for states and the federal government to help the 22 percent of children living in poverty and eliminate what the commission calls a "staggering" achievement gap. Three years in the making, the Commission’s report stems from a 2010 congressional directive to the U.S. Department of Education, which created the "For Each and Every Child: A Strategy for Education Equity and Excellence," makes recommendations in areas including equitable school finance, improved teachers, leaders, and curricula, expanding high-quality early education, mitigating poverty’s effects, and tacking accountability and governance.
 
http://www2.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/eec/equity-excellence-commission-report.pdf

  

 Links and Ways to Take Action!

  

Voices for Georgia's Children

www.georgiavoices.org  

 

To receive newsletters and additional communications regarding Voices for Georgia's Children initiatives click on the link below. http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/1679/t/8723/signUp.jsp?key=3973

 

Voices Today...for Georiga's Children. This site provides daily blogs that provide information regarding the lastest news and observations impacting child policy. http://gavoicesblog.wordpress.com/

 

GAYC also supports the Georgia Birth - 5 Coalition Agenda and priorities.  http://www.georgiavoices.org/

Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students (GEEARS)  www.geears.org

NAEYC Public Policy link to Advocacy Tools  http://www.naeyc.org/policy/

SECA Public Policy Page  http://www.southernearlychildhood.org/policy.php

Worthy Wage Campaign http://www.ccw.org/policy.html

Economic Impact on Georgia's Child Care http://www.cviog.uga.edu/services/research/childcare/

 
 

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