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Appendix D: Biosketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 295-302

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From page 295...
... systems in New York City and New York State on research initiatives such as authentic assessment in prekindergarten settings and ECE workforce development. She was a visiting scholar at the Centre de Recherche de l'Education Spécialisée et de l'Adaptation Scolaire in Paris, France, where she conducted research on the role of parents and educators in the development of civic attitudes and behaviors among youth.
From page 296...
... Prior to joining LAUP, she served as assistant super­ntendent, Division of Children and Family Services, Riverside County i Office of Education, where she managed all county ECE programs and activities, including the Head Start program. She has also served as the Pasadena Unified School District's director of curriculum, instruction and educational technologies; principal at James Madison Elementary School; and director of the Los Angeles County Department of Education's Division of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment.
From page 297...
... EMILY BYERS is a Christine Mirzayan science and technology policy fellow who served during her fellowship as a research associate with the National Academies, assisted in the research for this study. She currently is an associate program officer, serving the National Academies' Health and Medicine Division, Health Care Services Board standing committee and the Committee on Improving Health Outcomes for Children with Disabilities.
From page 298...
... subsidy programs, why parents stop using subsidies, ECE access and affordability, and the connection between parents' employment and ECE choices. Other research has focused on rural and low-wage labor markets and includes studies of the impact of local competition on wages and job turnover in the retail food industry and the relationship between local labor market conditions and employment outcomes for disadvantaged workers.
From page 299...
... She founded and led the Pennsylvania Office of Child Development and Early Learning, where she established the state's prekindergarten program, its business-led early learning investment commission, its early childhood mental health consultation program, and full-day kindergarten; reformed its approach to child care assistance, professional development, quality improvement and accountability; and led internal and external advocacy on behalf of the Governor's agenda, including cultivation of business leaders and mobilization of the early childhood community and other key stakeholders. In Pennsylvania, she also served as secretary of the Department of Public Welfare and as policy director, Department of Education.
From page 300...
... King professor emerita of public policy and economics at Duke University's Sanford School of Public Policy. She has written on charter schools and school choice in North Carolina, selfgoverning schools and parental choice in New Zealand, market-based reforms in urban school districts, voucher programs, school reform in post-Apartheid South Africa, and school finance in the Netherlands.
From page 301...
... in nutrition science from The Pennsylvania State University. SHAYNE SPAULDING is a senior research associate in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute and codirector of Bridging the Gap, an initiative focused on the intersection between ECE services and services for low-income adults seeking skill improvement.
From page 302...
... Her most recent reports document the current status of the ECE workforce and analyze how federal and state workforce policies serve to support or undermine effective teaching, contribute to inequitable services for children and families, and often pose risks to the personal and familial well-being of the ECE workforce. Previously she was the founding executive director of the Center for the Child Care Workforce, which she began in 1977 as the Child Care Employee Project.


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