Save Child Care - February 11th: What's happening this week

February 11, 2013

Happening this week

CAPPA advocates will continue their meetings with legislators. If you want to make sure that your elected official is followed up with or you have specific agency/center related information that you would like presented to either your elected senator or assemblymember, send us an email.

California:

ASM Floor Session Monday & Friday (due to Monday holiday)
SEN Floor Session on Monday & Friday (due to Monday holiday)

National:

State of the Union: On Tuesday, February 12, President Obama will be delivering the annual "State of the Union" address from the House chamber at 9:00pm (EST). You can watch live on television or click here.
Republican Response to the State of the Union: Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) will be delivering the Republican response to the State of the Union immediately following the President's remarks. Click here for background on Senator Rubio's address.
Tea Party Response to the President: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) will be delivering the Tea party response to the President immediately following the remarks of Senator Rubio. Click here for background information on Senator Paul's address.
President Obama's Budget: The President usually proposes his budget for the next fiscal year on the first Monday in February. However, this year, with Congress not approving a revenue package addressing expiring tax provisions until the first week of January, the President's budget is about a month behind. On Saturday, the President called on Congress to pass a balanced budget package to avoid the across-the-board cuts scheduled for March 1. The text of the President's budget message is here. (Note: The sequester is a result of the inability of Congress and the President to agree to legislation offering an alternative way to meet the deficit reduction targets called for in legislation passed in August of 2011).

Action Needed:

Tell Congress to Prevent Harmful Cuts Due to Start in March

As the new year dawned, Congress passed legislation to continue the Bush tax cuts for all but the top 2 percent, prevent federal unemployment insurance from expiring, and maintain important low-income tax credits for 5 years. In addition, it replaced 2 months of across-the-board cuts to domestic, international, and Pentagon programs with a combination of revenues and other spending cuts. Those cuts in current year spending are now scheduled to start on March 1. They will impose $31.4 billion in cuts to domestic programs like WIC, Head Start, child care, housing, home energy, and homeless aid, education and training, and much more. Medicare will be cut by $11.2 billion. Please tell your Senators and Representative to oppose these cuts, and to replace them with revenues from high-income individuals and profitable corporations and with savings from reining in Pentagon waste. Click here to enter zip code and register your voice.

Press worthy:

Legislation to require 3-day wait before acting on legislation. This is something for our early care and education field to support. Had this been in place, our part day preschool programs may not have been moved out from Proposition 98.
Brown's school finance reform has the right intent but major flaws
California's notorious tax-revenue roller coaster is on the way up again.

Job opportunity:

Children's Council of San Francisco - Director of Family Subsidy Services

CAPPA, CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION AND SAVE CHILD CARE EVENTS

2013 CAPPA and R&R Joint Annual Conference in Sacramento!

CAPPA is pleased to announce that we will be partnering with the California Resource and Referral Network to deliver our 2013 Annual Conference jointly! See the letter announcing the partnership here.

Reserve your spot today & fill out the SAVE THE DATE!

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BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!

The Child Development Webinar Series- ALL NEW FOR 2013!


The CAPPA Children's Foundation has developed a series of cutting edge trainings for 2013- all for one low price per center or program location. There is no limit to the number of people from your center who can attend the webinar series and be connected without ever leaving your location. This is a fabulous opportunity to train your ENTIRE staff and secure professional credit hours on the most requested child care topics for 2013 at an affordable price in an incredibly convenient format.

The 2010, 2011 & 2012 series are still available for purchase. Please email CAPPA, for more information.

Click Here to see more details and to register for the 2013 Series.

Interested in sponsoring the 2013 Webinar Series? Click here for more information.

DONATE TO CAPPA AND SAVE CHILD CARE

CAPPA is committed to continuing to advocate against the devastating cuts proposed by Governor Brown, provide support and training opportunities in addition to keeping the field updated on important and timely information via Save Child Care but we need your help.

We are asking for a donation to help us continue this important work- any amount is welcome. Together, we have united and have been successful in getting our message heard that families cannot work and be self sufficient without quality child care. Further, we have been on the front lines fighting to bring recognition of the needs of families, children, providers and the importance of the work that community based agencies and organizations do that serve low-income working families and children every day.

Thank you for considering this opportunity to partner with CAPPA and Save Child Care.

Click Here for the Donation Request Form

CAPPA Children's Foundation Mission Statement

The CAPPA Children's Foundation is dedicated to supporting the families and children of California through education, training and research.