REMARKS
Commitment to improving accessibility and perfecting the early childhood education system
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Council Member Rita Joseph concludes by emphasizing the need to improve accessibility for families and her commitment to perfecting the early childhood education system.
- Joseph stresses the importance of making the system accessible for parents without technology
- She highlights the need to involve providers in the conversation and empower community-based organizations
- The council member commits to continuing to push for improvements in the system
Rita Joseph
3:01:31
Because we we know that there are different entry points for families to enter the system, they have to be made accessible and that's one of the things I talked a lot about parents who may not have access to technology, cannot open a my school account, what is available for those parents as alternatives.
3:01:47
Yep.
3:01:47
So those are questions I will continue to ask and raise and push New York City public schools to do better in making sure that families and providers.
3:01:56
Right?
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Providers have to be part of this conversation.
3:01:58
It cannot be for them.
3:01:59
It has to be with them in order for the system to work the workforce one, to stabilize workforce and to stabilize this whole ecosystem.
Gregory Brender
3:02:08
And we're so grateful to you for asking those questions and also making sure that providers can be those points of entries which I think is just getting more and more important because more and more families are intimidated by dealing with government.
3:02:24
And so dealing with a trusted community based organization can often be the most effective point of entry.
3:02:29
So making sure they're empowered to bring families in who want to come into the center I think is a really important change we can make.
Rita Joseph
3:02:37
And one of the things we've always asked as well is to make sure that parents can sign up at their CBOs, right?
3:02:43
I should be able to walk in to a CBO and sign my child for early childhood without having to go through all of this hoop.
3:02:50
Yes.
3:02:51
So we will continue to push the envelope to improve the system.
3:02:55
By the time I leave we need to perfect the system as much as possible.
3:02:59
Thank you all for your testimony here today.
3:03:06
Thank you so much to our in person panelists.
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We will now turn to virtual testimony for virtual panelists.
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Please wait for the sergeant of arms to announce that you may begin before delivering your testimony.
3:03:32
First panelist Robert Ramos followed by Diana Diaz and You may begin.