The transcript below is from a presentation by four leading gubernatorial candidates at Advancement Project California’s Birth to Five Water Cooler conference in Sacramento. The discussion, which took place on Oct. 2, 2017, was moderated by EdSource Executive Director Louis Freedberg.
This segment features California gubernatorial candidate Delaine Eastin, the former state superintendent of public instruction and assemblywoman. This transcript has been edited for clarity and some explanations have been added in parentheses. The full presentation is available on YouTube here.
We’ve dropped to 41st in per-pupil spending in K-12. Also look at preschool and child development which took the steepest cuts during the big recession in ’07-’08. Even though child development was only 3 percent of the state budget, it took 20 percent of the hits, and that money has still not been restored.
So it’s time we really do follow the research. We don’t need any more task forces. We have the finest public-research institutions in the world in California. We know we need to pay attention to prenatal care. We know we need to absolutely give children support and child care from zero to three. And we really ought to have universal preschool for all.
In The Scientist in the Crib it says the human baby’s brain is really a network wired together by language and love instead of by optic fiber.
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