Home Hot Topics Articles Directors' Choice Awards About Us / Contact Us Activities & Curriculum Activities for Outcome-Based Learning Arts & Crafts Music for Learning Recommended Reading Sharing Boards: What Do YOU Think? NEWSlink Current National News Conference Calendar Topics In Early Childhood Education Art and Creativity in Early Childhood Education Job Sharing Board State Licensing Requirements Stay Connected! Each month we'll send you an email filled with articles and ideas for your classroom. Subscribe Now Date: 2/19/2006 8:45:00 PM Author: corkie (corkie_@msn.com) Subject: following state money... its federal! JO, it gets even better thn that. The states get the money through federal grants. Often this is training that the states are developing that would have been low-cost to providers anyway, incentives to improve their services. Now unions come and negotiate with the state to access this training that was intended to be provided by agencies... so the agencies are lose critical operational$$ to maintain their other services to providers and parents. it's happening in IL. Our assoc's provide low-cost traing to providers, and quality training, with no real overhead. We coordinate with the R&Rs; though,it's non-competetive & we complement each other. This will all change when a union has negotiated with the state to be the purveyor of training funded with federal $$... and sadly, they take credit for projects that have been years in development. "we" association leadership are getting NO answers from unions on important matters, ie, IF a union were given title to sole representation of providers in all matters with the state, is a provider association eligible to bring forth legislation? Will unions negotiate away grant $$ to which we have had open access? There are many unanswered questions, we have inquired over and over - and are ignored. Name: Email: Subject

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