Louise Stoney

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.

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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

Tiered Reimbursement Q&A: For States in the Early Planning Stages for a Tiered Reimbursement Component to their QRIS

TieredReimbursementQ&AFINAL.pdf

This 2009 brief presents nine short- and long-term steps the Federal government can take to support State developments of effective quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS). QRIS are systemic strategies to assess, improve, and communicate the level of quality in early care and education programs. QRIS can be helpful to guide decisions on how to target resources, focus dollars on results, streamline administration, and build quality.

The federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, the

This paper explores financing strategies for early childhood programs and propose recommendations about how tax credit might best be used.

Report.pdf