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Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) report to Congress: Submitted January 2003
United States. Child Care Bureau, 2003
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families.

A report providing various state and federal information regarding the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)

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Child care health consultation initiatives: A status report
United States. Maternal and Child Health Bureau, December, 2006
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center. (No longer accessible as of September 12, 2012)

A study profiling child care health consultant initiatives in the states and territories and examining factors associated with successfully implementing and sustaining these initiatives

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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
Smith, Linda K., 09 July, 2010
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

An examination of child care challenges facing child care providers and parents in rural areas, based on survey responses from child care resource and referral agencies in 42 states

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Child care in the state of Nevada: 2006 demographics report
Elquist, Marty, July, 2007
Reno, NV: Children's Cabinet.

An exploration of the child care market in the state of Nevada in 2006, including information on availability of child care, parents' demand for care, child care costs, and trends in bridging the gap between supply and demand

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Child care in the state of Nevada: 2009 demographics report
Elquist, Marty, October, 2009
Reno, NV: Children's Cabinet.

An exploration of the child care market in the state of Nevada in 2009, including information on availability of child care, parents' demand for care, child care costs, and trends in bridging the gap between supply and demand

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Child care provider training and a supportive feeding environment in child care settings in 4 states, 2003
Sigman-Grant, Madeleine, September, 2011
Preventing Chronic Disease, 8(5)

A comparison of feeding practices between child care centers that did and did not receive funding and support from the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP), and an assessment of training factors that could account for differences among centers, based on surveys of 203 directors and 567 staff in child care centers serving low-income children in 4 states

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Child care: Recent state policy changes affecting the availability of assistance for low-income families
United States. General Accounting Office, 2003
(GAO-03-588). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

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
United States. Government Accountability Office, 2004
(GAO-04-786). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Accountability Office.

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 under the Family Support Act: Early lessons from the states
Children's Defense Fund (U.S.), 1992
Washington, DC: Children's Defense Fund

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 literacy: Children's Books for Healthy Families/Libros de Ninos para Familias Saludables
Kock, Jo Anne, 2003
Journal of Extension, 41(2)

A special issue of the Journal of Extension, summarizing a longitudinal study of the relationship between parent-child reading activities and emergent literacy in children from birth to age three

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Class-wide positive behavior support in preschool: Improving teacher implementation through consultation
Carter, Deborah Russell, December 2010
Early Childhood Education Journal, 38(4), 279-288

An experimental study of the impact of a professional consultation on teachers' implementation of universal Positive Behavior Support (PBS) practices and children’s academic engagement, based on observations and teacher questionnaires in 4 preschool classrooms in one early childhood education center in southern Nevada

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Coming together for children with disabilities: State collaboration to support quality, inclusive child care
Mezey, Jennifer, 2003
Washington, DC: Center for Law and Social Policy.

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
National Association for Regulatory Administration, 1998
Conyers, GA: National Association for Regulatory Administration.

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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A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March 31, 2010
Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care

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Conceptualizations of readiness and the content of early learning standards: The intersection of policy and research?
Scott-Little, Catherine, 2006
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 21(2), 153-173

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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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia
Breunig, Gretchen Stahr, 2003
Seattle: University of Washington, Human Services Policy Center.

A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states

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Do variables associated with quality child care programs predict the inclusion of children with disabilities?
Essa, Eva L., November 2008
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 28(3), 171-180

A study of the association between the inclusion of children with disabilities and seven structural quality measures of child care environments and staff, based on data from a statewide census of directors and teachers at child care centers and licensed family child care providers throughout Nevada

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Downward slide: State child care assistance policies 2012
Schulman, Karen, 2012
Washington, DC: National Women's Law Center.

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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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons
Schilder, Diane, 2003
Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Center for Children and Families.

An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents’ child care needs

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Early care and education state budget actions: FY 2007 and FY 2008
Clothier, Steffanie, April 2008
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal years 2007 and 2008, based on a survey of the 50 states and territories

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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2009
Poppe, Julie, May 2009
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2009, based on a survey of legislative fiscal staff in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories

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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2010
Clothier, Steffanie, April, 2010
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2010, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories

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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2011
National Conference of State Legislatures, August, 2011
Denver, CO: National Conference of State Legislatures.

A study of state appropriations of state funds for early care and education programs in fiscal year 2011, based on a survey of legislative fiscal offices in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the territories

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Early childhood programs: Parent education and income best predict participation
United States. General Accounting Office. Health, Education, and Human Services Division, 1994
(GAO/HEHS-95-47). Washington, DC: U.S. General Accounting Office.

A report on the demographic factors of children that best predict preschool participation

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Early childhood teacher preparation programs in the United States: State report for Nevada
Maxwell, Kelly, 2006
Chapel Hill, NC: FPG Child Development Institute, National Prekindergarten Center.

An overview of the characteristics of the programs, faculty, and students in early childhood teacher preparation programs to prepare the workforce of service providers to children under age 5 in Nevada

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