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Aligning public finance systems: How can we most effectively maximize resources and build cohesive early care and education systems at the state level? A brief examining the linkages among different components of a high quality early care and education system of financing, program, and practitioner standards |
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Beyond the comfort zone: New ideas for the early care and education industry: A summary of the Kellogg Venture Grant Initiative Overviews of six projects receiving $5,000 grants to introduce the need for child care into various other economic development plans and policies |
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Capital finance: Are there effective public-private strategies for building early care and education facilities? A brief on financing strategies to support the development of early education and care facilities |
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Child care and early education financial aid: Adaptations from higher education An overview concerning the adaptation of a higher education model to improve the delivery of early child care services and create a private/public financing system |
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Collective management of early childhood programs: Approaches that aim to maximize efficiency, help improve quality and stabilize the industry A report presenting a catalog of collective management approaches currently used by child care services across the United States |
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Costing out the system: How can we develop a comprehensive, cross-system approach to determining a per-child cost for early care and education? A brief on cost analysis strategies to determine the overall and per child costs of early care and education programs. |
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Can we use tax strategies to help finance early care and education? An overview of select federal and state tax policies and credits used to encourage child care use among low-income families, encourage investment in and contributions for early care and education programs, and support improvements in child care quality |
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Early care and education program management and support services: North Carolina approaches to sustain quality A technical assistance report using exemplar child care programs to highlight two types of child care program management: 1) a single corporate entity operating center based sites, 2) independent businesses in contract with a single entity that provides management support services |
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Early care and education system reform: Key elements A paper identifying the key elements of an effective early care and education system and offering a model that can be used to identify and compare the ways that each sub-system addresses the key elements |
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Early Childhood Finance Learning Community conference call: Linking child care and regional transportation planning Notes from a discussion of community benefits, benefits to low-income citizens, and child care funding opportunities arising from the involvement of child care leaders in transportation planning |
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Economic development links: How do we use child care economic impact studies to help craft new approaches to public policy? How can we increase public investment using these arguments? An analysis of child care in the context of economic development |
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Economies of scale: Home-based alliances: Are there innovative ways to reach economies of scale? What have we learned about this approach in general as it relates to home-based alliances? A description of how early childhood programs can stabilize the industry and develop economies of scale |
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A brief suggesting corporate ownership of multiple child care centers and family child care networks can lead to economies of scale in the child care industry. |
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Economies of scale: New ways to organize early care and education to stabilize the industry A discussion of potential ways for the early childhood education and care industry to become more efficient through the achievement of economies of scale in their operations |
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Economies of scale: Support services alliances: Are there innovative ways to reach economies of scale? What have we learned about this approach in general as it relates to support services alliances? A brief suggesting multiple child care centers sharing management support services can lead to economies of scale in the child care industry |
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Education links: How do we establish universal preschool in a way that builds the early care and education system as a whole? A brief on aspects of the early care and education system which state universal preschool programs can strengthen |
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Initiative and referendum: What can we learn from the Washington state experience? A review of the purpose and successes of ballot measures on early child care education |
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Linking finance to program & practitioner standards: Financing quality rating systems A description of and approach to financing a Quality Rating System (QRS), a tool used to improve the quality of child care |
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The new economics of preschool: New findings, methods and strategies for increasing economic investments in early care and education A summary of different economic approaches to research on the return to investments in child care and early education. |
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Public engagement: Are ballot initiatives an effective tool to raise funds for early care and education? A brief on the pros and cons of using early care and education ballot initiatives and referenda as funding sources |
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Public engagement: How do we make paid family leave a part of the early care and education system? A brief on ways in which paid family leave can receive public financial support |
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Success stories: State investment in early care and education in Illinois, North Carolina and Rhode Island: Executive summary A summary of the early care and education programs funded by the state governments of Illinois, Rhode Island, and North Carolina |
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Success stories: State investments in early care and education in Illinois, North Carolina and Rhode Island A report profiling the early care and education programs funded by the state governments of Illinois, North Carolina, and Rhode Island |
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Tax policy: What are the tools? What are the pros and cons of tax policy to increase investment in early care and education? What have we learned about implementation? A brief on ways in which tax policy can be used to fund early childhood care and education |
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Visioning a new child care financing structure An overview of a session during the 2002 Maine Head Start Directors Retreat in which participants brainstormed new methods of funding early childhood education and care programs in Maine |
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