Q&A
Discussion on oversaturation concerns and recruitment efforts in early childhood education
1:14:22
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Council Member Stevens addresses concerns about oversaturation in early childhood education districts and emphasizes the importance of effective recruitment efforts. She cautions against misinterpreting unfilled seats as a sign of oversaturation, pointing out that it could be due to inadequate recruitment strategies.
- Stevens highlights the need to carefully evaluate claims of oversaturation in districts
- She criticizes the current recruitment efforts, stating they have not been effective
- The council member emphasizes the importance of supporting nonprofits in their recruitment efforts
- Stevens suggests that unfilled seats might be due to lack of engagement rather than true oversaturation
Althea V. Stevens
1:14:22
And then an another thing I wanted to just kind of highlight because I know the talk has also been that, you know, we need to be looking at the seats and oversaturation.
1:14:32
Obviously, we wanna make sure districts are not oversaturated, but I also wanna be careful about when we're talking about seats in certain districts because just because they're not full doesn't mean that it's oversaturated.
1:14:42
We have not been doing a good job as recruitment, and I know that's been a plan that's been in the works for the last year to ramp up recruitment and what that looks like and to support some of these nonprofits.
1:14:52
But I think sometimes when we're saying, you know, certain seats aren't full and things like that, I want to make clear that certain districts might have more seats but less interaction because we're not doing the work, and not saying we're gonna remove them.