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Be all that we can be: Lessons from the military for improving our nation's child care system: 2004 follow-up Highlights from a 2004 follow-up study on the military’s systematic approach to quality child care by the National Women’s Law Center |
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Bringing it together: State-driven community early childhood initiatives An account of what states and communities can do to successfully implement community based early childhood initiatives and experiences from states already using this approach |
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Building community collaboration to support early learning: Local councils for early care and education A discussion of the need for local-level organizations to complement federal and state early childhood education and care collaborative efforts, including recommendations for the structure and role of such local councils |
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A center piece of the preK puzzle: Providing state prekindergarten in child care centers An examination of the benefits and challenges for child care centers providing state-funded prekindergarten program services, with policies and strategies for increasing child care center provision of prekindergarten services, based on interviews with child care center directors |
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Child care assistance policies 2001-2004: Families struggling to move forward, states going backward A discussion of the increased barriers to child care assistance programs that low-income families face |
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Child care assistance policies 2005: States fail to make up lost ground, families continue to lack critical support Descriptions of child care financial assistance policies and tables of child care subsidy eligibility criteria state-by-state for the United States, 2001-2005 |
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Child care helps families work and children learn A testimony to the United States House of Representative Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness about the difficulties working parents face in finding affordable, high quality child care and how improved access to child care and early education resources not only helps children learn to read but helps parents retain the ability to remain employed |
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Close to home: State strategies to strengthen and support family, friend, and neighbor care An overview of policy options for states to support family, friend, and neighbor child care and early education |
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A count for quality: Child care center directors on rating and improvement systems A study of child care center directors' views of child care quality rating and improvement systems and their components, based on interviews with 48 directors from 9 states and a roundtable forum with 15 of the 48 directors |
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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012 A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2011 and February 2012 and between 2001 and February 2012, including changes to income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent copayments, reimbursement rates, and assistance to parents searching for a job, based on a survey of child care administrators in each state and the District of Columbia |
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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies A report on state-level child care assistance policies and changes that have occurred between 1995 and 2001, examining the impact of policies on families' access to care and child care choices. |
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A fragile foundation: State child care assistance policies: Executive summary A summary of state level child care subsidy policies and policy changes between 1995 and 2001 and the effects of policies on low-income families' access to care. |
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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers An examination of statewide efforts to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions |
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Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers: 2010 update An examination of statewide efforts between February 2007 and March 2010 to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions |
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Helping parents work and children succeed: A guide to child care and the 1996 Welfare Act A discussion of impending issues for states and children’s advocates related to the implementation of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant |
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In their own voices: Parents and providers struggling with child care cuts A presentation of personal accounts of families and providers affected by budget cuts to programs providing early childhood education and care |
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Key facts: Essential information on child care, early education, and school age care |
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Prepared statement of Helen Blank A presentation to the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions by Helen Bank, Director of Child Care and Development at the Children’s Defense fund, discussing child care policy, funding, and advocating for an increased effort to better the quality of and access to child care and early education for all children irrespective of socioeconomic status |
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Protecting our children: State and federal policies for exempt child care settings |
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Quality child care helps parents work and children learn A summary of the difficulties working parents face in finding affordable, high quality child care |
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School-age care: Federal funding opportunities |
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Seeds of Success: State Prekindergarten Initiatives 1998-1999 A study of prekindergarten initiatives across different states in order to assess the quality of prekindergarten, the accessibility of prekindergarten and the way in which prekindergarten initiatives are integrated with other early childhood programs. |
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Seeds of success: State prekindergarten initiatives 1998-1999: Executive summary The executive summary of a report that examines prekindergarten initiatives across different states in order to assess the quality of prekindergarten, the accessibility of prekindergarten, and the way in which prekindergarten initiatives are integrated with other early childhood programs. |
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State child care and early education developments: Highlights and updates for 1998 A national survey of highlights and updates regarding state actions on child care and early education issues among advocates in each state in 1998 |
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State child care assistance policies 2006: Gaps remain, with new challenges ahead An issue brief discussing results of a survey of state child care administrators investigating state child care policies regarding income eligibility limits, waiting lists, parent co-payments, and reimbursement rates |
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