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Child care: Child care subsidies increase likelihood that low-income mothers will work A report on the effects of subsidized child care on mothers' workforce participation |
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Child care: How do military and civilian center costs compare? A comparison between the costs of providing early childhood education and care services through military programs and civilian programs |
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Child care: Promoting quality in family child care A Government Accounting Office report identifying public and private initiatives to enhance the quality of family child care, the fincancing of initiatives, federal support for quality initiatives, and a discussion of implications for welfare reform |
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Child care: State efforts to enforce safety and health requirements A Government Accounting Office study identifying licensing and enforcement activities that ensure the safety and health of children in child care, the extent to which states conduct these activities for their regulated providers, and how states ensure that non-regulated providers receiving block grant funds meet the law’s safety and health requirements |
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Child care: State requirements for background checks An overview of state requirements for the licensing of child care providers, based on a survey of child care licensing directors in the United States |
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Child care: Use of standards to ensure high quality care A study of the relationship between child care standards and quality child care, identifying key standards that ensure high quality child care and examining the extent to which states incorporate these standards into their own standards |
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Early childhood centers: Services to prepare children for school often limited An investigation into the services needed to improve school readiness of at-risk children, based on case studies of early childhood programs in California, Louisiana, Maryland, and Michigan |
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Early childhood programs: Characteristics affect the availability of school readiness information A Government Accounting Office report on federally funded early childhood education and care programs and effectiveness of selected programs in contributing to school readiness |
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Early childhood programs: Parent education and income best predict participation A report on the demographic factors of children that best predict preschool participation |
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Early childhood programs: Promoting the development of young children in Denmark, France, and Italy An overview of the provision of early childhood education and care in Denmark, France, and Italy, as compared to the United States |
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Early education and care: Overlap indicates need to assess crosscutting programs An examination of government funded early childhood care and education programs to determine which meet the criteria of: 1) directly funding/supporting care and/or education, 2) provide these services to children under the age of five, and 3) deliver these services in an educational or child care setting. |
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Education and care: Early childhood programs and services for low-income families A description of the programs and services funded at the federal and state levels that directly provide early child care and education for low-income children up to age 5, state and local assessments of the difficulty low-income parents face in obtaining child care, and the collaborative efforts among child care and early childhood education officials to address these parents’ difficulties, based on surveys from child care administrators, departments of education in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and from all 537 child care resource and referral agencies in the membership database of the National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (NACCRRA) |
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Head Start programs: Participant characteristics, services, and funding A study of several factors of the Head Start program, including the number of participants, participants' characteristics, services provided, service delivery methods, federal and non-federal dollars received and spent, and other programs providing similar early childhood services |
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Head Start: Research provides little information on impact of current program A review of previous research on Head Start to determine the extent of the program's effectiveness and the types of studies planned by the Department of Health and Human Services. |
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Title I preschool education: More children served, but gauging effect on school readiness difficult A report requested by the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring, and the District of Columbia Committee on Governmental Affairs to determine the extent to which Title I funds are being used to support early childhood education programs and the effectiveness of these programs in preparing preschool aged children for school |
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Welfare reform: Implications of increased work participation for child care A study measuring the extent to which the current child care supply will be sufficient to meet the anticipated demand for care under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, including identifying other challenges that low-income families face in accessing care |
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Welfare reform: States' efforts to expand child care programs A study of state’s child care services and policies after the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, focusing on the funds states spend on child care subsidy programs and where these funds are allocated among welfare families, families making the transition from welfare to work, and working poor families, ways states are meeting the growing demand for child care services, and the extent to which states are changing standards for child care providers |
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