Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability. Policy Proposal 2021-05

Autor/inn/en	Davis, Elizabeth E.; Sojourner, Aaron
Institution	Brookings Institution, Hamilton Project
Titel	Increasing Federal Investment in Children's Early Care and Education to Raise Quality, Access, and Affordability. Policy Proposal 2021-05
Quelle	(2021), (36 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Federal Aid; Early Childhood Education; Child Care; Educational Quality; Financial Support; Scholarships; Poverty; Preschool Education; Disadvantaged Youth; Family Income; Costs; Competition; Budgets; Child Caregivers; Preschool Teachers; Caregiver Training; Access to Education; Expenditures; State Aid; Age Groups; Benchmarking; Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Family Environment; Educational Environment; State Programs; Public Policy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Kinderfürsorge; Kinderbetreuung; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Finanzielle Förderung; Scholarship; Stipendium; Armut; Pre-school education; Vorschulerziehung; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Familieneinkommen; Cost; Kosten; Wettkampf; Finanzhaushalt; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschule; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Ausgaben; Age grop; Altersgruppe; Unternehmungsgeist; Familienmilieu; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Regierungsprogramm; Öffentliche Ordnung
Abstract	The core challenge our proposal seeks to address is how to ensure that every American family and child has access to high-quality, affordable early childhood care and education (ECE) services in a critical period of human development, breaking a shortage of investment in young children. America's status quo asks the most of parents when they have the least. The public invests only about $1,500 per child annually in care and education in children's first 5 years of life, when parents have the least earning and borrowing power, and then invests $12,800 per child annually for the next 13 years, when parents have more. Under this proposal, every family can choose to access affordable ECE services at qualified, high-quality center-, home-, and school-based providers using either a slot that providers have been contracted to provide or a scholarship. Families in poverty can choose Early Head Start and Head Start with the option of full-time, full-year services. Total family financial payments are capped and depend on family income-to-poverty ratio. The combination of family and public payments to providers will adjust to be sufficient to cover the local costs of efficiently producing high-quality care and services. Competition focuses in three domains: procurement competitions for local service contracts that reveal information about local production costs, competition between providers about how best to use a localized sufficient care-labor budget to attract, develop, motivate, and retain care talent, and competition between providers to serve local families better. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Hamilton Project. Available from: Brookings Institution. 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20036. Tel: 202-797-6484; Fax: 202-741-6575; e-mail: info@hamiltonproject.org; Web site: http://www.hamiltonproject.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01