Financing Early Care and Education

Improving Quality-Based Payments for Early Care and Education in Ohio

NACCRRA Presentation

Potential Improvements to Ohio's Step Up to Quality Program: Quality-based Costs to Providers, Families and Funding Agencies

This study builds on previous analyses that the Human Services Policy Center has conducted for several public and private agencies in the state of Ohio. The purpose of this analysis was to consider the current costs to providers, family and public agencies of Ohio's Step Up to Quality (SUTQ) program and the financial implications of potential improvements to SUTQ.

Early Care & Education Policy for Low Income Families in Washington State: What We Can Learn from White Center / Boulevard Park

The purpose of this project is to review findings from the Making Connections Cross-Site Survey to better understand child care utilization patterns and factors influencing parental choice of care among a diverse neighborhood of low income families. Adobe PDF Document

Executive Summary

Accountable Investments in Early Learning to Improve Student Performance in Washington

Success or failure in school and life begins with the quality of learning experiences children encounter in their first years of life. Disparities in achievement by children from disadvantaged groups begin with disparities in access to high-quality early learning. Report for the Washington Early Learning Council, WA Learns. Adobe PDF Document

Executive Summary

Supply, Demand and Accountability: Effective Strategies to Enhance the Quality of Early Learning Experiences Through Workforce Improvement

A description of how a variety of forces in the early learning market lead to a failure to achieve strong outcomes for low and middle income children, as well as an outline of a set of strategies to overcome these market failures and improve outcomes.

Early Care and Education Cost Estimates For Shelby County, Tennessee

A report to the First Years Institute ECE Initiative Planning Committee.

Exploring the Costs and Revenues of Head Start and Child Care Partnerships in Ohio

A detailed analysis of the costs of providing high-quality early care and education, based on services received by Head Start children (ages 3 to 5) in Ohio.

Orchestrating Access to Affordable, High-Quality Early Care and Education for All Young Children, 2004 (430k)

A report describing HSPC's work with four diverse states to customize financing of early care and education. Adobe PDF Document

Policy Brief (57k)

Financing Access to Early Education for Children Age Four and Below: Concepts and Costs, Sept, 2004 (280k)

a paper prepared for the Brookings-University of North Carolina Conference on Creating a National Plan for the Education of 4-Year-Olds.

Finding the Funds: Opportunities for Early Care and Education, Jan, 2003

Policy Brief

Financing Universal Early Care and Education for America's Children - April 2004

In the Financing Universal Early Care and Education for America's Children project, we have analyzed alternative methods of paying for high quality care. This entailed applying financing lessons from other near-universal social benefits, and developing a multi-component simulation model to estimate costs and impacts of alternative financing approaches, featuring dynamic estimates of parental choices regarding care and employment. The simulation model has allowed policy makers and analysts to obtain comparative costs of care, and distribution of benefits, under different policy scenarios regarding the qualifications and compensation of staff, and the structure and eligibility features of various mechanisms for assisting families and providers. A PDF version of our policy brief on ECE Financing, published in 2000, is available here: Design Choices: Universal Financing for Early Care and Education

Several of the states we have worked with have released public reports by HSPC on the results of our analysis. PDF versions of these reports are available by clicking below: