MN Early Childhood Care & Education
A joint effort by Minnesota foundations to create a comprehensive business plan
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STRATEGY:
All public dollars linked to common definition of quality
PURPOSE:Improve the supply and variety of quality child care settings and build capacity and mechanisms within communities to define, interpret and rate quality of care. Remove class and cultural biases from quality ratings and ensure that capacity is built, not lost, in communities of color
Submitted: At March 11 workshopComments
By Anna Haubrich (Saint Paul-Ramsey County Department of Health) - April 30, 4:10pm
I would like to see what definition the developers are using for culture. Culture is more than ethnicity and more than color. Living under the stress of discrimination/racism and poverty is universally detrimental to human beings. Adding the strengths of various cultures to the ratings would be very helpful to counteract the damage done by the predominant culture placing its values as "the right way." This process needs to be done by persons of the culture or community. Poverty is also considered a culture.
By Mary Jo o\'brien (Nurse Family Partnership) - April 28, 3:15pm
A common definition of "quality" means little if it is not tied to rigourous program research and evaluation.
By Lucy Arias (Little Earth Residents Assoc.) - April 28, 9:48am
Removing "class and cultural biases" is feeding into stereotypes and individuals beliefs. Quality is quality having well trained evaluators is the key, do they need good diversity training yes! So there own biases don't get in the way of judging quality!
