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Public Policy

Save ERDC
Join our ONE Voice for Child Care partners in our efforts to save the Oregon ERDC program for low-income working families who have not recently left the TANF program. Link to the Save ERDC website.


Collaborate
Work with us to change attitudes and policies and to promote professional standards and better compensation and working conditions. OregonAEYC is represented on state policy bodies including the Childhood Care and Education Coordinating Council and the Early Childhood Initiatives Advisory Committee. We participate in collaborative efforts to ensure quality care and education for all young children.


OregonAEYC has been active in such past policy initiatives as:

  • Increasing standards for child care center and certified family home licensing
  • Establishing standards for family child care
  • Adding the early childhood endorsement to the licensure for public school teachers
  • Expansion of training opportunities and requirements for child care
  • Creation and expansion of the Oregon Head Start Pre-kindergarten program

Oregon Public Policy Issues
Oregon's Legistature is now in session working on the biennial budget and other issues. Visit their website to learn more about the legislative process. You can do a search with your address to find out who your legislators are. Sign up for legislative updates on topics of interest to you, track bills, or contact your legislators. Check out the Oregon Legislative website through this link.

Legislative Agenda
Legislative Agenda for 2013. (PDF) If you as an individual or your organization wants to join OregonAEYC in supporting this agenda, dowload and return the Endorsement Form (pdf).

Federal Policy Issues
Most of the funding for child care in Oregon, other than the fees paid by parents, comes from the federal government. For information on public policy issues at the federal level and to join the Children’s Champions alert system, please visit NAEYC’s Children’s Champions website.

Early Learning Council
Part of the Council's work is a pilot Kindergarten Readiness Assessment. This is a sample of one of the tools that is being used, the Child Behavior Rating Scale.
Cover Sheet and Instructions
Child Behavior Rating Scale

Questions about Oregon Public Policy activities?
Contact OAEYC at: OAEYC@oregonaeyc.org

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