Elise Crane is lead on an $11 million workforce development portfolio at the San Francisco Office of Early Care and Education. For 12 years she managed the compensation programs Wage Augmentation Guarantees for Entry Level Staff Plus (WAGES+) program, licensed centers and family child care home, ...
Read moreElise Crane is lead on an $11 million workforce development portfolio at the San Francisco Office of Early Care and Education. For 12 years she managed the compensation programs Wage Augmentation Guarantees for Entry Level Staff Plus (WAGES+) program, licensed centers and family child care home, and was lead on the redesign of the new compensation program Compensation and Wage Augmentation Grants for Economic Support (C-WAGES) program which broadens the funding to include increased wages based on job title and education, and enhanced access to medical insurance and retirement benefits for the early care and education workforce in San Francisco. The compensation programs total $9.7 million of City and State (AB212) funding to support 80 licensed centers and over 200 Family Child Care providers serving low income children in the City/County of San Francisco. She also manages contracts that support educational pathways and provide stipends for completed coursework at higher education institutions. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding and later City and CalWORKs funding was identified and used to develop the Learning with Income, Foundations to Teach (LIFT) program through Elise’s leadership, which created classroom jobs for low income individuals, primarily women, linked to formal education and professional development in the Early Care and Education and School-Age sector. Ms. Crane has led and partnered in planning, development and implementation of the web-based California Early Care and Education Workforce Registry data system with Los Angeles county, as well as stakeholders from across the state. Ms. Crane is an active participant in a number of early care and education policy and planning groups, and attends regional and state level work groups on child development policy. She is a Board Member and Chair of the Partnerships and Policy Committee for the National Workforce Registry Alliance. Ms. Crane is the Chair of the Solano County Local Child Care Planning Council and a seated member of the Solano Children and Families Commission (First 5 Solano). Elise graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s in Sociology and a Master’s in Public Administration with a concentration in Education and Social Policy and Fiscal Management
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