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Stakeholders urge expanding and stabilizing Children’s Fund and PEAF; committee files hearing for further work
Summary
A multi‑hour hearing on reauthorizing the Children’s Fund and the Public Education Enrichment Fund (PEAF) produced broad stakeholder consensus to remove PEAF trigger language, expand the Children’s Fund set‑aside and include transitional‑age youth up to 24. The committee filed the report for further drafting of charter language and next steps.
Superintendent Richard Carranza and Maria Hsu, director of the Department of Children, Youth and Their Families (DCYF), presented the Our Children Our City (OCOC) stakeholder process and four broad recommendations: stronger cross‑agency collaboration, a holistic approach to learning, continued support for family and youth services, and a plan to diversify and sustain funding.
Presentations emphasized an equity lens and data‑driven targeting of services. The working group described a proposed structure that would retain the two funds as separate measures on one ballot, create a children and family council to align city and school district leadership, and improve data sharing and planning cycles. The working group also signaled intent to align planning cycles (some stakeholders recommended a five‑year planning cycle) and to institutionalize community…
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