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Child care through the eyes of parents, children and child care providers: Parents' experiences with the child care assistance program Findings from a study of child care and public assistance practices and opinions among low- and middle-income parents who receive out-of-home child care and/or care-related financial assistance through Minnesota's Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) |
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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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Children's Home Society of Minnesota client focus group project: Parents' views on child care and child care assistance in the first year of statewide welfare reform An exploration of parents’ views on the accessibility and quality of child care services under the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), a statewide welfare reform policy, based on interviews with parents of children in Children’s Home Society child care centers |
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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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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research? An analysis of 46 state-level early education standards documents to investigate the specific areas of development addressed in order to determine how different states conceptualize school readiness |
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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers in the USA A study of the effects of child care subsidies on the employment, school, and welfare participation of single mothers following the passage of the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) |
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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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Estimates of child care eligibility and receipt for fiscal year 2009 An examination of children's eligibility for and receipt of federal child care subsidies under federal parameters and state-defined rules |
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system pilot: Final evaluation report An evaluation of Parent Aware, Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), that examines programs' experiences and patterns of enrollment, ratings, and improvement, risk status of children served, parent and child ratings, and the relationship of program ratings to observed quality and children's developmental gains, based on program surveys and observations, direct and indirect child assessments, parent interviews, administrative data, and data on program supports |
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system pilot: Year 2 evaluation report Findings from an implementation and process evaluation of the second year of Parent Aware, Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including information on program characteristics and stakeholder perspectives |
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating and improvement system pilot: Year 3 Findings from an implementation and process evaluation of the third year of Parent Aware, Minnesota?s quality rating and improvement system (QRIS), including information on program characteristics and stakeholder perspectives |
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Evaluation of Parent Aware: Minnesota's quality rating system pilot: Year 1 evaluation report Findings from an implementation evaluation of the first year of Parent Aware, a pilot quality rating system in Minnesota to help parents identify high-quality early childhood education programs, based on interviews with stakeholders |
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Evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program: Issue brief 2: Implementation in year 2 An evaluation of the second year of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system--that examined characteristics of participating children, families, programs, and communities, and the progress of implementation activities |
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Evaluation of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program: Issue brief 3: Summary of implementation (year 3) Findings from the third year of the pilot of the Saint Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program--a market-oriented scholarship model that includes home visits to inform parents about the benefits of high-quality early care and education, scholarships for low-income families to pay for high-quality early care and education, and Parent Aware, a program quality rating system |
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Evaluation of School Readiness Connections pilot project: Final report Findings from an evaluation of the School Readiness Connections (SRC) project - an initiative to provide incentives for early childhood programs that serve Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) participants to tailor their programs to support children's school readiness, and provide incentives for CCAP families to choose these programs - based on data from 14 child care centers and family child care programs and 364 children who participated in the SRC project |
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Families affected by the loss of basic sliding fee child care assistance in 2003: Child protection, school attendance, wage status An exploration of the well-being of families who no longer participated in the Basic Sliding Fee (BSF) child care assistance program in Minnesota, based on information on 492 families who were either terminated from or had a gap in participation in the BSF program |
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Family and individual predictors of child care use by low-income families in different policy contexts A study of the impact of family and child characteristics on low income parents' use of child care, child care quality and receipt of child care subsidies. |
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Family child care homes and the CACFP: Participation after reimbursement tiering: An interim report of the Family Child Care Homes Legislative Changes Study An inquiry into the participation rates of family child care homes in the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) |
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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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Getting and retaining child care assistance: How policy and practice influence parents experiences A study of parents' interaction with the child care subsidy system and how state and local subsidy policies and practices affect parents' experiences. Particular attention is paid to the process of applying for and retaining subsidies. |
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Getting Ready: Final evaluation report An evaluation of Parent Aware Getting Ready Project, a program to assist child care providers in preparing for entry into the Minnesota Parent Aware quality rating and improvement system, that examines child care provider characteristics, services received, quality improvement, and enrollment in Parent Aware, based on administrative data, project staff interviews and surveys, and provider self-assessments and surveys |
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Going to scale with high-quality early education: Choices and consequences in universal pre-kindergarten efforts An overview of policy implications for states attempting to provide high-quality prekindergarten access |
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Infant-Toddler early learning guidelines: The content that states have addressed and implications for programs serving children with disabilities A categorical analysis of the contents of the infant and toddler early learning guidelines (ELGs) published by 21 states, and a discussion of their implications for programs serving children with disabilities |
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Inside the content: The breadth and depth of early learning standards A study of the content and development of state-level early learning standards for kindergarten through twelfth grade in 2004 |
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