{"id":2990,"date":"2002-11-01T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2002-11-01T17:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.armedliberal.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2002-11-01T17:23:30","modified_gmt":"2002-11-01T17:23:30","slug":"election-watch-day-5-keeping-them-after-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"ELECTION WATCH, DAY 5; KEEPING THEM AFTER SCHOOL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Proposition 49 is officially the \u0093Before and After Schools Programs\u0094 initiative, but it ought to be the \u0093Arnold Schwartzenegger platform for Public Office\u0094 initative. The proposition would set aside up to $550 million\/year from the General Fund (the amount is formula-driven) for before and after school programs centered in the public schools, based on the argument that for many kids, the schools are the most stable productive environment they have.<br \/>\nThe sad reality is that this is true.<br \/>\nOne of the key omissions of welfare reform and the entire new job-oriented form of government social programs, is the simple question: \u0093But what about the kids?\u0094 We have a nanny three afternoons a week, and I\u0092d estimate that she brings her children over (they get to play with the Littlest Guy, so it\u0092s all good from my point of view) twice a week. She does it because a) she needs to work; and b) her costs for child care are close to or exceed what she can earn. So someone explain to me exactly how, absent a tolerant employer, she is supposed to participate in the labor market, even if she wants to?<br \/>\nI lived in Paris for a while, and one interesting feature of the French social welfare system is the neighborhood cr\u00e8che, a combination day care center and kindergarten. They are local, free, open during working hours, and generally (in the better neighborhoods where I hung out) good.<br \/>\nLooking at the problems of poverty and broken low-income urban and rural culture in the U.S., I am more and more convinced that the schools will play an increasing role in focusing and delivering social services, not only to the children, but to their parents. (Yeah, yeah, I know\u0085the public schools today can barely teach kids to <u>read<\/u>\u0085)<br \/>\nThis proposition is a first step in that direction, and based on that, I\u0092ll be voting <font size=3><b>\u0094yes\u0094<\/b><\/font size>.<br \/>\nPlus I want to see a Meathead\/Terminator gubernatorial race in \u009206.<br \/>\nCheck out the <a href=\"http:\/\/voterguide.ss.ca.gov\/propositions2.asp?id=222&#038;sID=2\" target=\"browser\">Leg. Analyst<\/a> on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposition 49 is officially the \u0093Before and After Schools Programs\u0094 initiative, but it ought to be the \u0093Arnold Schwartzenegger platform for Public Office\u0094 initative. The proposition would set aside up to $550 million\/year from the General Fund (the amount is formula-driven) for before and after school programs centered in the public schools, based on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}