Financing Early Care and Education
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. 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:
- Illinois Public Report on Financing (82k)
- Highlights of Illinois Care Survey (70k)
- Highlights of Chicago Child Care Survey (69k)
- Mississippi Public Report on Financing (88k)
- Highlights of Mississippi Child Care Survey (62k)
- Ohio Public Report on Financing (551k)
- Highlights of Ohio Child Care Survey (39k)
- Highlights of Cuyahoga County, Ohio Child Care Survey (85k)
- South Carolina Public Report on Financing (7.5MB)
- Executive Summary of South Carolina Public Report (3MB)
- Highlights of South Carolina Child Care Survey (60k)
