Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) implemented several policy changes to the Child Care Scholarship program aimed at improving access to high-quality child care (see Box 1). Maryland refers to child care subsidies funded through the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) as child care scholarships. Administrative data analyses explored how the child care supply changed during the time period when these state policy changes were being implemented. We found a significant increase over time in the percentage of providers serving children with a scholarship, corresponding to the period when Maryland eliminated waitlists, increased family income eligibility for scholarships, and raised provider reimbursement rates (Exhibit 1). Increases in the percentage of providers serving children with scholarships may correspond to the combination of policy changes during this time period and cannot be causally attributed to any policy change. (author abstract)
Policy changes associated with increased access to child care scholarships in Maryland
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United States
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Maryland
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