Council Member Brewer asks about outcomes measurement
Brewer asks if providers are measuring outcomes to show the importance of early childhood education. Robert Cordero says Grand Street follows children longitudinally and hopes the city will measure outcomes from baseline.
First of all, the New York Post, you should, like, administration should take your comments.
Bottle it and send it to the New York Post because I read it every morning and they don't like the mayor.
But if they hear you, they might change their mind.
Is the post here?
No.
That would have been so helpful.
I read it.
My question is just the training of the staff.
I asked it earlier.
I assume that all of this is the goal is better outcomes come high school and elementary school and so on.
So the training of the staff goes with that.
But in addition, again, some of you do this, some of you don't.
What is the, I'd like to have any, the city's doing some outcomes.
Are you doing any outcomes?
How do we keep measuring to show how important early childhood is?
Is anybody doing that or is that something that's just done by the city?
And how does that compute with training for the teachers?
The New York Post is going to love what you said.
Maybe I'll get a little bit more critical now.
No.
We're a Robin Hood grantee.
We're just fortunate.
So Robin Hood funds evaluation and impact.
So we've been a longtime grantee.
So we actually have a system built where all of our early childhood.
Enrolled families, all 1,461 of them.
We follow them from the beginning all the way through.
We have early Head Start, so we're working with pregnant women that can enroll their children.
And we should probably talk about Head Start with you, with mom here.
But there are ways to do this.
I don't know if it's throughout the whole city.
So I think the point is that's really something that I'm glad that the city is looking at partnering with Robin Hood and CUNY, but there has to be a way
with this new initiative of universal child care expansion to measure it from baseline.
Because many of us were not measuring things back when the war on poverty started and 61 years ago when we got Head Start.
We were just serving children that were in families in dire need.
But the programs that have been measured, like Head Start, have incredible outcomes, and I hope that the city does that.
It's really up to the government to do that in partnership with the providers.
It brings funding, too, if you show them.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.