Louise Stoney

This report includes chapters on the following topics:  1.  Early Childhood Policies From Ecological and Family Impact Perspectives; 2. Minnesota’s Early Childhood Populations; 3. What Is an Early Care and Education System?; 4. Why Should We Have an Early Childhood System and How Might It Look?; and 5. Unanswered Questions.

MinnesotaFamilyImpactReport.pdf

In April 2012, Louise Stoney, co-founder of the Alliance for Early Childhood Finance, served as a guest blogger for Sara Mead’s “Policy Notebook” blog that appears in Education Week.

LouiseStoneyBlogs.pdf

This brief powerpoint presentation created by Louise Stoney, co-founder of the Alliance for Early Childhood Finance, provides illustrations for aligning finance with standards in a quality rating and improvement system.

Aligning Finance with Common Standards.pdf

Written by noted consultant Louise Stoney, this brief explores the ideas and trends related to QRIS that state leaders included in their Race to the Top/Early Learning Challenge applications.  It is designed to provide not only useful background information for state policymakers, funders, and nonprofit leaders, but also to stimulate discussion within the field about opportunities to advance high-quality 

LouiseStoneyMemo.pdf

Relatively little has been written about what kind of strategies and techniques do the most to help early care and education (ECE) programs operate as financially viable businesses. This issue brief draws lessons from the experiences of organizations that are using two broad approaches to promoting financial stability of ECE programs.

OpEx_IssueBrief2_BizSide-final-1[1].pdf

This new issue brief examines the use of tax credits to raise the quality of services and to make high quality early care and education more available to low-income and working-poor families.

OpEx_IssueBrief_Tax_Final-1[1].pdf

This powerpoint presentation provides an excellent "visual" as part of a webinar that was held focusing on the "Toward Better Policy for Early Care and Education in the United States."

BetterPolicyPowerpointFINAL.pdf

These graphics show how finance can be linked to the quality levels of a QRIS and then layered to fund a single child or classroom of children.

Aligning Finance with Common Standards.pdf

Toward Better Policy for Early Care and Education in the United States: Resource Materials

This resource list was created as an accompaniment to the paper on "Towards Better Policy for Early Care and Education in the United States."

BetterPolicyWebinarHANDOUT.docx

Toward Better Policy for Early Care and Education in the United States

This brief, written by two of the foremost leaders in the early childhood field, provides a new way of thinking about ECE public policy that:

BetterPolicyPaper.doc