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The Early Learning Alliance/AFT-OR
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The Early Learning Alliance/AFT-OR is a unique, statewide coalition of child care center directors, owners, teachers and staff as well as parents and community leaders who have joined in a mission to improve the quality of early childhood edu­cation in Oregon. 

CLICK HERE to join ELA today.

ELA's mission

Our mission is to ensure that child care centers have resources to provide living wage jobs; and give families access to high quality, affordable child care. To achieve this goal, we must advance the interests of the key component in a quality education — the workforce that provides it.

A unified organizational voice

We envision a unified organizational voice for the early childhood workforce based in child care centers. As a voice for the child care workforce, we advocate for livable wages, benefits and professional devel­opment — but not at the expense of struggling parents or under-funded child care centers. ELA/AFT-OR seeks to shape landmark legislation that would bring greater resources to child care centers and workers throughout the state.

That’s why we are joining together — owners, directors, teachers and staff of child care centers in Oregon — to find funding and public support for early learning. Join our extraordinary organizing effort! Let’s work together to make sure child care centers, and the people who work in them, get the support they deserve.

CLICK HERE to join ELA today.

For more information

contact Elizabeth Joy Zarek, ELA/AFT-OR organizer and longtime early educator, to find out more about the benefits of membership. 

Elizabeth Joy Zarek, Organizer
Early Learning Alliance/AFT-OR
Cell: (503)545-9171 Office: (503) 595-3880
7035 SW Hampton St.
Tigard, OR 97223-8313

Visit these related websites: 

American Federation of Teachers (AFT)

Albert Shanker Institute

Washington Educators in Early Learning (WEEL)

 

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