ABSTRACT
Not only educators but also parents should anticipate, as well as work to create, positive changes in the relationship. Such change is likely to happen if parents find that the school is responsive to their needs. Often when school-based support services are implemented, parents come to realize that the school is not the same that it once was. When schools are providing school-based services such as child care, there is a need to hire additional staff. Besides policy decisions regarding staff qualifications, schools have to make an effort to treat the entire staff as a whole rather than treat the child care staff as separate from the academic faculty. Besides anticipating some of the changes likely to take place, it is important that educators recognize that the implementation of early care and family support programs is often one aspect of a broader effort to reform schools.
