Multnomah County expects its universal preschool program to see a significant boost in enrollment, starting next fall. On Thursday morning, the county announced plans to offer more than 7,400 Preschool for All seats to early education providers for the 2026-27 school year.

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Preschool for All is ending 2025 with a bang!💥📈💛✊Thanks to all of the advocates who helped make this happen!

If she became a champion for it we could get out there & knock doors for her instead of writing mean responses to her fundraising emails & standing in the rain to yell at her & thwarting her & the ignorant ass Senate Finance Committee in Salem. Tim Boyle is never gonna knock doors for you Tina!!!!!

📣She’s at it again! The governor is selling out toddlers for tax cuts for top earners. Join our rally Monday from 11:30-1 at the Convention Center, 777 NE MLK, to demand Preschool for All be rolled out as approved 2:1 by voters! RSVP and bring friends! actionnetwork.org/events/prote...

🌞 TODAY! Starting in an hour, join us anytime until 1 pm!🐿️🧺

✨Not to be outdone, we are throwing our OWN gala (picnic in the park) tomorrow! Kids are super welcome and fun+drinks+snacks will be in high supply! ✨ (Details in the replies!)

Official statement from Team Toddler re: *that* NYT piece: 🗣️Lol. LMAO. We especially appreciated this photo of our opposition

DINKs for good! 🫶 Thank you!!!

SO PROUD of my beautiful amazing girlfriend for testifying against P4A indexing *as a* P4A taxpayer. The indexing proposal was tabled later in this meeting and everyone who spoke up contributed.

Over the past month, our coalition and our community came together to say, NO CUTS, NO COMPROMISES. Thank you for every email, phonecall, public comment, and PB&J assembly line for toddlers at evening meetings. Together, we won Preschool for All- AGAIN! The tax cuts are paused!

Live shot of Andrew Hoan from Portland Metro Chamber as the Multnomah County Board begins debating cuts to Preschool for All

Let's take a look at some examples of how the Preschool For All tax works! 👀 It's a progressive revenue mechanism that will guarantee all these payers free preschool once the program goes universal, an average saving of $16,000 per year.✨

It was great to be in a room full of families and local leaders to say: we support Preschool For All! East Portland has the most families out of all the districts, so it’s very important to me that we keep growing PFA. @friendsofpfa.bsky.social #FriendsofPFA

🥰... our emails do contain a lot of good info! Get on the list at friendsofPFA.org to get yours!✨

Thanks for being there and standing with us to protect Preschool for All, @counciloravalos.bsky.social!

Can't be there tonight, but I support Preschool For All!

As the program grows, so will the benefits to this community. This is a strategic investment in our workforce, in affordability, in school performance – the things that matter most to families. Preschool for All will help make Multnomah County a destination of choice for young & aspiring families.

Here with my team to listen at the @friendsofpfa.bsky.social town hall. This room is packed with enthusiasm for universal preschool.

I really loved this article about the benefits of childcare that go beyond “parents can work.” Preschool has had a huge benefit for our family even though I’m still at home with our younger kid. Ignoring these social benefits may encourage limiting universal childcare proposals to working parents.

Let's keep going to universality: actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

📚Today's required reading: "There’s no real evidence linking downtown’s woes to local taxes. No flight of the wealthy shows up in the statistics."

Say it with us: HANDS OFF PRESCHOOL FOR ALL!🗣️✨ actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

Folks are finding ways to tell County Commissioners exactly what they think about cutting Preschool for All. Watch these public comments from yesterday's regular board meeting! 💛 District 1 coming in hot🔥

Heartbroken and outraged by the arson that destroyed CAIRO Academy’s new playground—a space of joy for Portland’s African immigrant kids. This was an attack on hope. CAIRO still rises. Let’s help them rebuild. 📰 KGW: https://loom.ly/HgQfcZQ 💖 Donate: https://gofund.me/21eac220

You may be asking yourself...did I not just take action to save this vital program that we voted for 2-to-1 & is a no-brainer anywhere else in the industrialized world??? Yes, you probably did! But the attacks keep coming and this whole summer is a crucial juncture for Preschool for All! Click thru!

Portland people, the rich people are trying to take away preschool. Click to write a letter. What kind of jerk tries to take away PRESCHOOL!

👀 Did we mention yet today that we have a super fun, kid-friendly Town Hall planned for next week? RSVP here!✨ secure.everyaction.com/M_6ro0EhLE2W...

🌞Rise and shine, Team Toddler! Time to email our County Commissioners! 🫡 actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

Good coverage of today's first board hearing on Preschool For All in preparation for a vote on JBE's "indexing" proposal, in effect her attempt to kill the program. Some highlights in this thread! ✨

Come help defend Preschool for all!!!

🥰 We love to see it!!! We'll link another great news story about community capacity building from earlier today below ❤️

Commissioner Singleton was first to point out the obvious: why consider a tax proposal without looking at what the resulting program impacts would be? Why not talk to families and providers to learn what the program is accomplishing first?

Meghan Moyer, a self-proclaimed "nerd," wanted cold, hard data.

Hands off Preschool for All! Send your reps a message about how much this crucial social program means using this link: actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

Good coverage of today's first board hearing on Preschool For All in preparation for a vote on JBE's "indexing" proposal, in effect her attempt to kill the program. Some highlights in this thread! ✨

...and guess who presented to the Multnomah County Board today? 👀 That's right, Cornell Sociologist Cristobal Young! But first, we have a thing for everyone to click right now: actionnetwork.org/letters/vote...

Want to help save universal free Preschool for All for Multnomah County? There's so many ways to pitch in. Check out this great calendar for things to do and how to make sure your voice is heard! www.friendsofpfa.org/take-action/

Shocked to see that the Governor of Oregon's brilliant plan to *check notes* gut the universal free preschool program in Multnomah County which pays a living wage to childcare workers didn't make the list. www.americanprogress.org/article/prom...

Key point not covered in the article: IF the indexing proposal passes this August, Preschool For All will be BANKRUPT by 2031. This is a wildly undemocratic maneuver by Commissioner Brim Edwards, doing the dirty work for PMC and Gov. Kotek. www.wweek.com/news/schools...

We're going to need to save Preschool for All from getting killed in the next couple of weeks. Julia Brim Edward's "indexing the tax" proposal which is designed to bankrupt the program by 2031 will be voted on in AUGUST. This is a war on every future family in our county. Follow to stay updated.

✨Join Team Toddler: FriendsofPFA.org

Area man making $333k a year says taking away preschool is the best thing for the future of all children in Multnomah County

Meeting update! We heard concern around indexing the tax rate without having information about program impacts. We also heard anti-tax talk about the importance of cutting taxes without complete information.🙃 A delay was suggested to get the results from the community survey - linked in reply! ✨

Want to help fight the attacks on Preschool for All? ➡️ Follow us 🤝 ➡️ Get on the mailing list (friendsofpfa.org) ➡️ Join the coalition ✨

REMINDER: TAG meeting starts in 15 minutes. Here is the link to register (just scroll down for agenda and zoom): multco.us/info/pfa-tec...

TODAY! 👇