On March 31, the Senate Education Committee passed\u00a0HB22-1295 Department Early Childhood And Universal Preschool Program\u00a0on a 5-2 vote. This bill takes several steps to address the existing challenges faced by families and providers, including strengthening Colorado\u2019s early childhood infrastructure, developing a single application for families to access all publicly funded early education services, and better supporting our early childhood workforce. Parent, community leader, and Stand Advocacy Fellow, Yaeel, delivered her testimony in support of the bill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Mi nombre es Yaeel Duarte y soy Fellow de la organizaci\u00f3n\u202fde Stand for Children hace ya dos a\u00f1os. Estoy aqui para dar tetstimonio a favor de el projecto de ley HB 22 \u2013 1295. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
La raz\u00f3n\u202fpor la que estoy dando testimonio\u202f \u202fa favor\u202f de esta propuesta, es\u202f\u202fporque quiero asegurarme que la comunidad a la que sirvo tenga la informacion necesaria para facilitar\u202fla educaci\u00f3n temprana de sus hijos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u202fConsidero que las leyes actuales\u202f No han beneficiado al m\u00e1ximo\u202fa la comunidad de habla espanol por varios factores por supuesto\u202fel primero es el factor socioecon\u00f3mico\u202fel cual impide en la mayor\u00eda de los casos el que los padres se involucren en la educaci\u00f3n de sus hijos,\u202f otro factor igual de importante es el del conocimiento, aunque\u202fexisten ciertas estrategias para pasar el mensaje de inscripci\u00f3n\u202fen este caso No siempre son las m\u00e1s efectivas algo que erra el sistema escolar es deducir que el nivel de aprendizaje\u202fde los padres es el mismo en todas las culturas y No es as\u00ed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Muchos de estos padres se rinden al momento de buscar opciones para sus hijos en etapa preescolar No solo por el idioma si no tambi\u00e9n\u202fpor No tener suficiente apoyo tanto con informacion como con el proceso en general de dicha inscripci\u00f3n, que para variar\u202fel personal de las escuelas lo hacen m\u00e1s\u202fcomplicado de varias formas, y es\u202f por eso es que existe ”La Sra que me cuida a mi hijo” porque prefiri\u00f3\u202fpagar menos y prefiri\u00f3 ir con alguien\u202f que le entiende y No le pide tooodos los requisitos que le pide el sistema actual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Las consecuencias de esto Son ni\u00f1os\u202fanalfabetos bajos en vocabulario y por ende bajos en Lectura y Escritura, lo que conlleva a esta\u202ffamosa brecha acad\u00e9mica\u202fen los ni\u00f1os. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
El pasar esta Ley le ofrece\u202f herramientas a los padres de hacer hijos independientes y les dar\u00e1\u202fla seguridad de tener \u00e9xito\u202facad\u00e9mico\u202fen el futuro. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is Yaeel Duarte and I am a returning Fellow of the Stand for Children. I am here today to give testimony in favor of House Bill 1295, universal pre-school. I am testifying in favor of this bill in part because I want to ensure the Spanish-speaking community weighs in on this proposed public policy, they deserve to have the information they need to facilitate their children’s early education. I believe that the current practices regarding pre-school have led to opportunity disparities for Spanish-speaking families for several reasons. The most obvious factor is affordability, which disproportionately punishes single income\/low-income families, particularly Latinas as statistically they are more likely to stay at home and save the money than almost any other demographic. In most cases, these same low socio-economic families are also less likely to get involved in the education of their children. In addition to the obvious language barrier, there is also a lack of access and policy knowledge, although there are certain strategies to pass the registration message in this case. They are not always the most effective. Sometimes we also forget to see how parents have quite different education levels and can help their kids differently at home. They rely on pre-k to give those supports. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Many of these parents give up when looking for options for their children in the preschool stage, not only because of the language, but also because they do not have enough support both with information and with the registration process. The consequences of this lack of academic access are children with low vocabulary and therefore struggle in Reading and Writing, leading to one of the most notable academic achievement gaps in Colorado schools. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Passing this Law would help ensure early success for children and more academic options for parents, please vote yes on HB-1295. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 31, the Senate Education Committee passed\u00a0HB22-1295 Department Early Childhood And Universal Preschool Program\u00a0on a 5-2 vote. This bill takes several steps to address the existing challenges faced by families and providers, including strengthening Colorado\u2019s early childhood infrastructure, developing a single application for families to access all publicly funded early education services, and better […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","color_schema":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,12,16],"tags":[48,40,46],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-their-own-words","category-legislation","category-safe-and-supportive-schools-and-communities","tag-fellows","tag-legislation","tag-testimony"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n