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Need for agility in adapting to changing community needs
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Daniel Weisberg, First Deputy Chancellor, emphasizes the importance of creating an agile system that can adapt to changing community needs in early childhood education. He provides examples and context for why this flexibility is crucial.
- Acknowledgment of providers' requests for easier modifications to meet community needs
- Example of a provider wanting to shift from 3s and 4s to infant and toddler care
- Recognition that communities change over time (e.g., new apartment buildings affecting demand)
- Goal to make the year-to-year process seamless through the new RFP
- Commitment to increased agility once the new RFP is implemented
Daniel Weisberg
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And we hear that.
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That's one of the things we hear from providers.
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You know, we we had a provider right when we got there who's like, listen.
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I've got threes and fours.
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I know I need infant and toddler.
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Why do you guys make it so hard to do?
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And so we were able to, in that case, modify the contract to get that done.
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But absolutely, when we get a new RFP, we have to make that process a year to year seamless process because communities change.
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New apartment buildings open up.
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Now there's infant and toddlers.
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Now there's a big you know, cry for, you know, pre K.
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So we need to get much more agile.
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That will be we will definitely be more agile once we can get that RFP out.
Rita Joseph
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Okay.
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Thank you.
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Wonderful to hear.
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Wonderful to hear.
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I'm gonna pass it over to council member Brewer.