PACE advocates legislators on behalf of its members, parents, and California’s school children while focusing on the following issues.
Quality Issues
To reflect the varied needs of children and families, PACE believes California’s families are best served by a continuum of high quality early care and education programs, representing a variety of philosophies, environments, curricula, and teaching methodologies.
Child Care and Development Funding Issues
As children of all socio-economic levels deserve high quality early care and education and as PACE members serve all children, PACE believes that private licensed early care and education programs should have equitable access to child care and development funding and that such funding should be sufficient to provide high quality care and education.
Licensing and Regulatory Issues
PACE supports the mandates of State Licensing (prevention, compliance, and enforcement), affirms the positive relationship between Community Care Licensing (CCL) and licensees, and advocates for funding at the necessary level to fulfill those mandates.
Small Business Issues
PACE promotes innovative business management practices to provide the highest quality early care and education programs.
