(a) Office of Early Care and Education; Director. The Mayor shall appoint a Director who shall serve as the Department head for the Office of Early Care and Education ("OECE") and appointing officer for the OECE. The Director shall serve at the pleasure of the Mayor. The OECE shall include such officers and employees as are authorized pursuant to the budgetary and fiscal provisions of the Charter.
(b) Duties and Functions.
(1) The OECE shall be responsible for aligning and coordinating the City's efforts to provide early education for children ages zero to five in San Francisco, including programs and funding streams from the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families, the Children and Families Commission (First Five Commission), and the Human Services Agency to serve young children and their families.
(2) The OECE shall work to improve access for all of San Francisco's young children to high-quality early care and education, strengthen the early care and education workforce, and build early care and education system capacity.
(3) The OECE shall develop a strategic plan and proposal, to be submitted to the Board of Supervisors no later than January 1, 2016, that addresses the expansion of quality universal early education in San Francisco. The strategic plan and proposal shall:
(A) Include goals for early care and education programs that align with emerging developments in state or federal early care and education policy, and address professional development needs of center-based, family child care providers and to the extent resources allow, license-exempt care providers;
(B) Address neighborhood-specific needs, including school readiness, subsidy availability, children's dual language development, facility development parent engagement and education, inclusion of children with special needs, and provider support for both family child care homes and early care and education centers; and
(C) Include a set of equity metrics to be used to compare existing early care and education services and resources in low-income and disadvantaged communities with early care and education services and resources available in the City as a whole.
(4) The OECE’s Director or designee shall attend meetings of the Office of Early Care and Education Citizens’ Advisory Committee (“OECE CAC”), established by Chapter 5, Article XIII of the Administrative Code, and the OECE shall provide staffing to OECE CAC, including providing the OECE CAC with the information it requests.
(5) The Human Services Agency shall provide administrative support for the OECE.
(6) The OECE shall have such other duties and functions as are assigned by the Charter, an ordinance, or the Mayor.
(Added by Ord. , File No. 141123, App. 12/19/2014, Eff. 1/18/2015; amended by Ord. , File No. 161081, App. 1/20/2017, Eff. 2/19/2017)
