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The 2005 child care licensing study: Final report A compilation of survey data on state child care licensing programs and policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement, and child care center licensing regulations, for all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2005 |
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The 2007 Child Care Licensing Study: Final report A compilation of survey data on state licensing programs and policies for child care centers and small and large family child care homes in all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2007 |
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Achieving a state of healthy weight: A national assessment of obesity prevention terminology in child care regulations 2010 A study of the extent to which state child care regulations meet standards related to obesity prevention in the areas of infant feeding, nutrition, and physical activity |
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An analysis of Florida's Voluntary Pre-K program An analysis of regulation, finance and support services of the Voluntary Prekindergarten (VPK) Program in Florida |
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Analysis of state K-3 reading standards and assessments: Final report An examination of the extent to which state kindergarten through third grade (K-3) reading standards and assessments address five components essential to effective reading instruction (phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension), based on an analysis of a stratified, random sample of states' reading standards and on the content of reading assessments in states with statewide assessments |
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Announced v. unannounced licensing inspections: Survey report Results from a survey about the requirements and practices of announced and unannounced licensing inspections by child care, child welfare, drug and alcohol, adult day care, and mental health licensing professionals in 40 different states/provinces/territories |
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Are state child care regulations meeting national oral health and nutritional standards? A study of state child care regulations in the United States in terms of their inclusion of selected oral health and nutrition standards related to early childhood dental cavities, based on a review of regulations in 50 states and the District of Columbia, from the National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care and Early Education |
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Assessing the New Federalism A multi-year, multi-pronged project that analyzes state policy choices, including policy development and implementation, and family well-being in the context of the significant devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states |
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Assessing the quality of child care using longitudinal, administrative data: What can it tell us and how can it be used? A study analyzing administrative data from Miami-Dade County, Florida to determine the impact of welfare reform on child care quality |
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Can child care assistance in welfare and employment programs support the employment of low-income families? An investigation of different welfare and employment programs with child care assistance policies and their effects on employment rates and child care decisions of low income families |
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Championing success: Business organizations for early childhood investments A study of the early childhood policy and advocacy efforts of formal business membership organizations, based on survey responses from 104 local chambers of commerce and from 121 state business roundtables, state chambers of commerce, and city chambers of commerce |
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Changing policies, changing impacts: Employment and earnings of child-care subsidy recipients in the era of welfare reform A study that examines the employment and earnings of current and former recipients of welfare benefits and child care subsidies and assesses the impact of increased funding for child care and other policy changes. |
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Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003 A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) |
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Compendium of quality rating systems and evaluations A compendium of information on quality rating systems of child care and early education programs, including a proposal of an analytic framework for the assessment and evaluation of quality rating systems and profiles of such systems in 26 states |
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Defining and measuring quality: An in-depth study of five child care quality rating and improvement systems An examination of aspects of child care quality rating and improvement systems related to definitions and measures of quality, including variation in definitions and measures, processes to measure each component and determine the overall level of quality, and availability of data on quality ratings, based on in-depth case studies in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee |
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The Child Care Quality Rating System (QRS) Assessment: Measuring quality across three child care quality rating and improvement systems: Findings from secondary analyses A study of the prevalence of quality components among participating child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) providers and their relationship to observed quality, based on analyses of QRIS administrative data, professional development registries, and observation data in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Illinois, and Tennessee |
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Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families An examination of state policy developments affecting the availability of child care assistance for low-income families |
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Child care: State efforts to enforce safety and health requirements A report by the Government Accountability Office to House Representative Sander M Levin regarding the regulation of child care health and safety requirements in states supported by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) |
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Child care subsidies and employment behavior among very-low-income populations in three states An empirical analysis of the effects of child care subsidies on recipients' transition times to substantial employment, using merged administrative data from Florida, Minnesota, and Connecticut's welfare reform evaluations |
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Child care subsidies and employment behavior among very-low-income populations in three states An estimation of the effect of child care subsidies on single parent welfare recipients’ period of transition to substantial employment |
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Child care subsidies and leaving welfare: Policy issues and strategies The second part of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on child care subsidy use by parents in transition from TANF to employment |
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Child care subsidies for TANF families: The nexus of systems and policies First of a three-part study of the interaction between state and local welfare-to-work programs and child care assistance programs, focusing on administrative structures, protocols and interagency coordination as they affect TANF parents |
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Child care under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states A study of the Head Start program’s effects on disadvantaged rural students development compared with non-Head Start rural students, based on results from the analysis of variance studies in testing of 144 children in Mississippi enrolled in Head Start I and Head Start II programs, and a non-Head Start control group |
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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care A study of state policies which would provide special education and early intervention services to low-income children with disabilities in child care programs |
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A comparative enforcement study: Survey report of negative enforcement options and practices A survey of the negative enforcement practices used by regulatory agencies on adult assisted-living, child care, and child residential care licensing programs in the United States and Canada |
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