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MEMBERS

Karen Hill-Scott, Chair
President, Karen Hill-Scott & Company, Los Angeles
Steven F. Arvizu
Past President, Oxnard College

Rosina Becerra
Professor of Policy Studies and Social Welfare, School of Public Policy and Social Research, University of California, Los Angeles

Karen Blinstrub
Executive Director, Santa Clara Children and Families Commission

Judy David Bloomfield
Director, One Small Step, San Francisco

Tony Colon
Director, Community Services Department, Contra Costa

Betty DeFea
Legislation Advocate, California State Parent Teacher Association, San Francisco

Rosa Flores
Kindergarten Teacher, George Washington Elementary School, Selma Unified School District

Bruce Fuller
Professor & Co-Director, Policy Analysis for California’s Education (PACE), University of California, Berkeley

Yolanda Garcia
Director, Children’s Services Department, Santa Clara Office of Education

Dave Gordon
Superintendent, Elk Grove Unified School District

Virginia Greenwald
Statewide Child Care Project Coordinator, California Council of Churches, Sacramento

Jack Hailey
Senate Office of Research, Sacramento

Neal Halfon
Professor, School of Public Health and School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Ada Hand
Consultant, California Department of Education, Sacramento

Marci Hanson
Professor, Early Childhood Special Education, San Francisco State University

Juanita Haugen
Past President, California School Boards Association, Pleasanton

Whit Hayslip
Coordinator, Infant/Preschool Special Education, Los Angeles Unified School District

Betty Ann James
Representative, California Teachers’ Association and Kindergarten Classroom Teacher, Compton

Michael Jett
Director, Child Development Division,
California Department of Education, Sacramento

Rose Kauffman
Commissioner, Los Angeles County Children and Families Commission

Andrew Kennedy
Director, HeadStart/State Preschool Division, Los Angeles County Office of Education

Crystal Kochendorfer
Commissioner, Orange County Children and Families Commission; President, Board of Trustees, Capistrano Unified School District

Susan Lacey
State Commissioner, California Children and Families Commission, Ventura

Ron Lally
Director, WestEd Center for Child and Family Studies, Sausalito

Victor P. Lopez
Mayor, City of Orange Cove

Constance J. Lue
Director, Child Development Programs and Extended Learning Opportunities, Glendale Unified School District

Kathleen Malaske-Samu
Chair, Child Development Policy Advisory Committee, Sacramento


Ed Manansala
Healthy Start Coordinator, C.K. McClatchy High School, Sacramento City Unified School District

Maria Minon
Commissioner, Orange County Children and Families Commission; Pediatrician, Children’s Hospital of Orange County

Lois Mitchell
Executive Director, Orfalea Family Foundation, Santa Barbara

Jean Monroe
Early Childhood Education/Child Development Specialist, Oakland

Terry Ogawa
Executive Director, Los Angeles City Commission on Children, Youth and Families

Paul Orfalea
Founder and Chairperson Emeritus, Kinko’s, Inc., Santa Barbara

Alfred Osborne, Jr.
Director, Harold Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Pete Parra
Commissioner, Kern County Children and Families Commission; Kern County Board of Supervisors

Pat Phipps
Executive Director, California Association for the Education of Young Children, Sacramento

Phyllis Stewart Pires
Senior Benefits Program Manager, Family Services, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose

Cheryl Polk
Executive Director, Miriam and Peter Haas Fund, San Francisco

Pamela Short Powell
Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Pasadena Unified School District

David Romain
Education Consultant, Richmond

Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
Assistant Professor, College of Education, California State University Northridge

Lois Salisbury
President, Children Now, Oakland

Rosemarie Sancho
Director, Preschool Programs, K-12 Categoricals, Sanger Unified School District

Carmen N. Schroeder
Assistant Superintendent, Early Childhood Education Division, Los Angeles Unified School District

Heather Senske
Coordinator, Child Development Programs and Services, Butte County Office of Education

Carol Stevenson
Executive Director, Starting Points, San Francisco

Debra Stipek
Dean of Education, Stanford University

Ruby Takanishi
President/CEO, Foundation for Child Development, New York, NY

Dennis Vicars
Executive Director, Phoenix Schools, Sacramento
Kate Warren
Director, Family Resource Network of Alameda County, Oakland

Alan Watahara,
President, California Children’s Lobby and The California Partnership for Children, Sacramento

Wendy Wayne
Administrator, Division of Child Development and Family Services, Kern County Office of Education

Charles Weis
Superintendent, Ventura County Office of Education

Carolyn Wylie
Executive Director, Riverside County Children and Families Commission

Maysee Yang
Mayfair Family Services Center, Fresno Unified School District

Marie Young
Senior Program Manager, Child & Youth Development, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos

Jules Zimmer
Dean of Gevirtz School of Education, University of California Santa Barbara

Special Consultants

Sharon Lynn Kagan, Principal Consultant; Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy, Columbia University; Senior Research Scientist, Yale University

Rima Shore, Education Consultant, Brooklyn, NY

Carla Dartis, Program Officer, Children, Families, & Communities Programs, David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Linda Espinosa, Professor, College of Education, University of Missouri

Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr., Professor, Department of Political Science, Director, Center for Communications and Community, University of California, Los Angeles

Sharon Hawley, Child Development Administrator, California Department of Education

Cecilia M. Sandoval, Facilitator


California Children and Families Commission Staff

Jane Irvine Henderson, Executive Director

Joseph P. Munso, Chief Deputy Director

Emily Nahat, Deputy Director, Program Management

Judy A. Stucki, School Readiness Working Group Coordinator

Jennifer Bell, Education Programs Consultant

Barbara Marquez, Health Program Specialist

Sarah Neville-Morgan, Child Development Consultant

Roberta Peck, Education Administrator

Luis Sepulveda, Analyst

Erik Miyao, Office Technician

Jovanna Gonsalves, Executive Fellow
Table of Contents
Summary Introduction Improvements Early Care
Family Support Epilogue Appendices Members