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2009 California child care portfolio
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network, 2009
San Francisco: California Child Care Resource and Referral Network.

A presentation of statewide and county-by-county statistics of child care supply and demand, costs, and the availability of licensed child care providers in the state of California

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The ABCD Story: A model for learning
BTW Informing Change, January, 2009
(Report to the Community Issue VII). San Francisco: Low Income Investment Fund.

A description of the Affordable Buildings for Children?s Development (ABCD) Initiative and its influence on the promotion of the structural quality of child care and early education facilities in California, with a focus on the financing, capacity building, development assistance, and advocacy program components of the initiative

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Financing a full-day, full-year preschool program in California: Strategies and recommendations
Lam, Irene, April 2009
Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.

An inquiry into the costs of a high quality, full-day, year-round prekindergarten program in California, and recommendations for the development of criteria for a reimbursement system

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First 5 Power of Preschool: Lessons from an experiment in tiered reimbursement
Lam, Irene, April 2009
Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.

An exploration of the variations in reimbursement rates within the nine counties who participated in the First 5 Power of Preschool (PoP) program in California, and a comparison of PoP rates with both the state's standard reimbursement rate and the regional market rate for services

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Inside the pre-kindergarten door: Classroom climate and instructional time allocation in Tulsa's pre-k programs
Phillips, Deborah A., May 2009
(CROCUS Working Paper No. 13). Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

A study of classroom climate and academic instruction in public prekindergarten programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a comparison of classroom climate and academic instruction in Tulsa prekindergarten classrooms to classroom processes in Head Start and other state prekindergarten classrooms, and an examination of classroom and teacher characteristics associated with variations in classroom climate and academic instruction

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Losing the safety net: How a time-limited welfare policy affects families at risk of reaching time limits
Morris, Pamela A., March 2009
Developmental Psychology, 45(2), 383-400

An account of the development of a risk index for single mothers at risk of reaching the time limit of a welfare program, and a study of the effect of welfare transition time limits on child care choice, parental employment and income, quality of home environment, parental aggravation and depression, parenting harshness, parental monitoring of children, children's health, behavior, and engagement and achievement in school, among families likely to reach welfare time limits, based on data collected in Escambia County, Florida during the implementation of the state's Family Transition Program (FTP)

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Preschool adequacy and efficiency in California: Issues, policy options, and recommendations
Karoly, Lynn A., 2009
(MG-889-PF/WKKF/PEW/NIEER/WCJVSF/LAUP). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

The final component of a multicomponent study of preschool education in California, which integrates and synthesizes the results of the previous three components to make recommendations for improving preschool adequacy and efficiency in California

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Preschool adequacy and efficiency in California: Issues, policy options, and recommendations [Executive summary]
Karoly, Lynn A., 2009
(MG-889-PF/WKKF/PEW/NIEER/WCJVSF/LAUP). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A summary of the final component of a multicomponent study of preschool education in California, which integrates and synthesizes the results of the previous three components to make recommendations for improving preschool adequacy and efficiency in California

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Preschool enrollment among Latino children in California
Reyes, Belinda I., Spring 2009
Davis, CA: Wealth Research Organization.

A summary of a study of the characteristics of preschool enrollment rates among Latino children in California and of the attitudes and preferences of California Latino parents toward preschool, based on analyses of data from the 2005 and 2006 American Community Survey and the 2001 Statewide Survey of Parents with Young Children in California

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Preschool supply and demand in the state of California: An assessment of preschool enrollment in publicly contracted and privately operated preschool programs
Anthony, Jennifer, 2009
Washington, DC: American Institutes for Research.

An investigation of the supply of preschool and prekindergarten programs in California, and an estimation of parents' demand for preschool and prekindergarten services

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School readiness in Santa Clara County: Results of the 2008 assessment
Applied Survey Research, September, 2009
Watsonville, CA: Applied Survey Research.

A study of children's transitions to and skills at kindergarten entry, and family and early childhood education factors associated with those skills, in Santa Clara County, California, based on parent surveys and kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments

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School readiness in Santa Clara County: Results of the 2008 assessment [Executive summary]
Applied Survey Research, September, 2009
Watsonville, CA: Applied Survey Research.

A summary of a study of children's transitions to and skills at kindergarten entry, and family and early childhood education factors associated with those skills, in Santa Clara County, California, based on parent surveys and kindergarten teacher surveys and child assessments

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Social-emotional effects of early childhood education programs in Tulsa
Gormley, Jr., William T., 2009
Washington, DC: Georgetown University, Center for Research on Children in the United States.

An examination of the effects of participation in early childhood education programs on children’s socioemotional development at kindergarten entry, based on a sample of 3,127 kindergarteners who had participated in the Tulsa Public Schools (TPS) prekindergarten program or the Community Action Project (CAP) Tulsa County Head Start program

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Strategies for advancing preschool adequacy and efficiency in California
Karoly, Lynn A., 2009
(RB-9452-PF/WKKF/PEW/NIEER/WCJVSF/LAUP). Santa Monica, CA: Rand Corporation.

A summary of the final component of a multicomponent study of preschool education in California, which integrates and synthesizes the results of the previous three components to make recommendations for improving preschool adequacy and efficiency in California

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Trends in childcare and preschool enrollment among Latino children in California
Reyes, Belinda I., March 2009
(Report No. WR2009-001). Davis, CA: Wealth Research Organization.

A study of the characteristics of preschool enrollment rates among Latino children in California and of the attitudes and preferences of California Latino parents toward preschool, based on analyses of data from the 2005 and 2006 American Community Survey and the 2001 Statewide Survey of Parents with Young Children in California

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Trends in childcare and preschool enrollment among Latino children in California [Executive summary]
Reyes, Belinda I., March 2009
(Report No. WR2009-001). Davis, CA: Wealth Research Organization.

A summary of a study of the characteristics of preschool enrollment rates among Latino children in California and of the attitudes and preferences of California Latino parents toward preschool, based on analyses of data from the 2005 and 2006 American Community Survey and the 2001 Statewide Survey of Parents with Young Children in California

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