CALL TO ACTION!
Dear CPAC community,
Your independent and collective voices are needed RIGHT NOW to advocate for $30 million needed in funding to ECE in San Francisco. The article below highlights the work being done by a group of District Supervisors around recent windfall funding that could benefit ECE, but your voice is critical to ensuring that District Supervisors and Mayor London Breed hear from ECE community.
Please don’t delay, act today!
SF supervisors propose plan to use windfall for teacher raises
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/SF-supervisors-propose-plan-to-use-windfall-for-13568859.php
What can you do?
- Write an email to your District Supervisor (where you live or work in SF) **and** Mayor London Breed (sample letters found below, feel free to add your personal flare).
- Bring your letter to City Hall and meet with Supervisors!
- Be** **present at an upcoming meeting (get creative, one voice can be present to speak for many).
**When?**
- Act now via email!
- Speak** **out** **at** **the** Budget & Finance Committee **meeting**, 10 am next Wednesday, Feb. 6, at City Hall. **(Email me if you’re interested)
**Who can be involved? **
- Educators
- ECE Leaders
- Parents
- ECE Stakeholders
- SF residents and workforce members.. ECE is important to *everyone*!
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**Sample Letter to send to your District Supervisor
Find your District:
**https://sfelections.org/tools/districts_lookup/
**District Supervisor Emails:**
https://sfbos.org/roster-members
City Hall, Room 244
San Francisco, Ca. 94102
Date:
Dear Supervisor
San Francisco’s children can’t wait. Last June Proposition C for ECE passed bringing much needed resources to continue building a stable early care & education system — but will be on pause until the legal suit is settled. A stable workforce keeps classrooms open, and maximizes current resources to deliver the best and most care. Without teachers, classrooms can stand empty and reduce existing capacity, and teachers who have mastered skills and education move on. What an opportunity to take advantage of the ERAF windfall and infuse $30M to support educators now — before we loose them.
Thank you and I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Name:
Address:
Zip code:
Contact information:
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**Sample Letter to send to Mayor London Breed
You can send this to: **
MayorLondonBreed@sfgov.org
Mayor London Breed
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
City Hall, Room 200
San Francisco, Ca. 94102
Date:
Dear Mayor London Breed,
San Francisco’s children can’t wait. Last June Proposition C for ECE passed bringing much needed resources to continue building a stable early care & education system —but will be on pause until the legal suit is settled. A stable workforce keeps classrooms open, and maximizes current resources to deliver the best and most care. Without teachers, classrooms can stand empty and reduce existing capacity, and teachers who have mastered skills and education move on. What an opportunity to take advantage of the ERAF windfall and infuse $30M to support educators now — before we loose them.
Thank you and I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,
Name:
Address:
Zip code:
Contact information:
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***CPAC Mission**
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The San Francisco Child Care Planning and Advisory Council creates and drives the early care and education agenda to meet the needs of San Francisco's children and their families.*
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