Local Early Education Planning Council Santa Clara County

Article I - Name LOCAL EARLY EDUCATION PLANNING COUNCIL OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY BYLAWS (approved October 23, 2008) The Council shall be designated the Local Early Education Planning Council of Santa Clara County referred to hereafter as the LPC, who’s oversight committee is designated as the Joint Child Care Committee (referred hereafter as the JCCC). Article II - Authority The Santa Clara County Local Child Care Planning Council was formed on July 1, 1991 by the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors and the Santa Clara County Office of Education. This was done in accordance with the state law established by AB 2141 in 1991 and AB 1542 in 1998, that provided for the formation of county level child care planning councils. The LPC shall operate as mandated by Education Code 8499.3 and 8499.5. Article III - Statement of Purpose 1. Increase the accessibility, affordability, and quality of children's development through early education, and before and afterschool programs. 2. Early Education, and before and afterschool programs includes: family child care and center-based programs, all licensed child care and development services and license-exempt child care; including, but not limited to, private for-profit programs, nonprofit programs, and publicly funded programs, for all children up to and including 13 years of age, including children with special needs up to age 22, and children from all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. 3. Conduct an assessment of early education, and before and afterschool programs needs at least once every five years. 4. Encourage public input in the development of priorities. Opportunities for public input shall include at least one public hearing. 5. Submit the results of the needs assessment and the local priorities identified by the LPC to the JCCC), comprised of representatives of the County Board of Supervisors (50% of JCCC) and County Board of Education (50% of JCCC), for approval before submitting them to California Department of Education. 6. Prepare a comprehensive countywide early education, and before and afterschool plan designed to mobilize public and private resources to address identified needs. 7. Conduct a periodic review of early education, and before and afterschool programs funded by the California Department of Education and California Department of Social Services to determine if identified priorities are being met. 8. Design a centralized eligibility list for early education, and before and afterschool programs. 1 9. Promote the coordination of part-day programs, including State Preschool and Head Start, with other early education programs to provide full-day programs. 10. When requested, review and comment on proposals submitted to the California Department of Education that concern early education, and before and afterschool programs to be provided within the geographic area covered by the LPC. 11. Recommend to the JCCC at least one, but no more than two persons of the LPC to serve as part of the California Department of Education team that reviews and scores proposals for the child development services funded through the California Department of Education. 12. Become the leading early education, and before and afterschool programs advocacy group in Santa Clara County.