Getting organized: Unionizing home-based child care providers: 2010 update
An examination of statewide efforts between February 2007 and March 2010 to allow home-based child care workers, including licensed family child care providers and regulation-exempt family, friend, and neighbor caregivers receiving subsidies, to join unions
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State child care assistance policies 2010: New federal funds help states weather the storm
A study of changes to state child care assistance policies between February 2009 and February 2010, 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 state child care administrators
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Employed rural, low-income, single mothers' family and work over time
A study of perceptions of difficulties and challenges of balancing family, child care, and work responsibilities, based on a secondary analysis of interview data with of 28 rural, low-income, continuously employed, and single mothers across 11 states over three waves of data collection between 1999 and 2003, who took part in the longitidunal Rural Families Speak Project
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A compilation of initiatives to support home-based child care
A compilation of profiles of 96 initiatives that target and support home-based child care
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Child care in rural areas: Top challenges
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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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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Early care and education state budget actions FY 2010
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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Parents and the high cost of child care: 2010 update
A state-by-state study of the prices of center-based and family child care for infants, preschool-age children, and school-age children in 2009, based on a national survey of state child care resource and referral networks and local child care resource and referral agencies
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The state of preschool 2010: State preschool yearbook
An annual review of access to, quality in, and resources devoted to state-funded preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children in all 50 states and the District of Columbia during the 2009-2010 program year, based on a survey of administrators of state-funded preschool programs
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Linking urban families to community resources in the context of pediatric primary care
A description of the use of Family Help Desk to connect at risk families to community resources, including child care, based on a longitudinal cohort pilot study over 6 weeks in an urban academic-based health clinic in Baltimore in 2007
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Lessons in early learning: Building an integrated pre-k-12 system in Montgomery County Public Schools
An account of the development of an integrated prekindergarten through twelfth grade learning system in Montgomery County, Maryland, with a focus on 5 strategies for the implementation of the learning system
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Head Start: Undercover testing finds fraud and abuse at selected Head Start centers
An investigation into allegations of fraud in Head Start programs, including enrollment over-reporting and misrepresentation of applicant eligibility, based on undercover visits to Head Start grantees in California, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin, and Washington, DC
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Pre-kindergarten in the south: Preserving the region's comparative advantage in education
An examination of the provision of prekindergarten services in the Southern United States, and a discussion of early childhood education as the region's comparative educational advantage
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