Brief

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.

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This concept paper identifies issues and provides guidance to states as they develop, revise, and utilize early educator competencies in the context of inclusion.

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This 1-page handout provides recommendations and strategies for preparing, engaging, and supporting family involvement in state-level meetings.

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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."

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Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) and Head Start Alignment

This paper was developed in response to the many questions which arose during the 2011 Early Learning Challenge grant planning process when applicants were asked to align and integrate Head Start into their state quality rating and improvement system. The paper outlines some of the benefits and challenges of such an alignment process and poses questions for next steps that must be taken at the federal and state level to support greater alignment efforts in the future.

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

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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:

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Accreditation and Quality Rating and Improvement Systems

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