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Stephanie Schmit explains the importance of CLASP's new report, Disparate Access: Head Start and CCDBG Data by Race and Ethnicity.
This fact sheet explains methodology for CLASP's Disparate Access report.
This fact sheet provides selected findings from CLASP's Disparate Access report.
This brief highlights state-level data by race and ethnicity about differential access to Head Start preschool, Early Head Start (EHS), and Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)-funded child care, analyzed here for the first time.
Senator Casey (D-PA), Representative Crowley (D-NY), and Representative Frankel (D-FL) introduced the Child Care Access to Resources for Early Learning (C.A.R.E.) Act, bicameral legislation to provide high-quality child care to all low-income families (below 200 percent of poverty) with children under age four by 2025.
President Obama’s fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget proposal continued his call over many years for significant investments in child care and early education.
This presentation provides an overview of national and state-level data, and provides lessons from the field using data to inform advocacy and policy development.
Americans overwhelmingly agree that children’s fate in life should not be determined by the circumstances in which they are born. But children born into poor families are at great risk of persistent poverty during their childhood.
This report suggests a new framework for thinking about TANF in the context of the first year of life, a vision for what a reformed TANF might look like and concrete steps that states can begin taking right now to move their programs in this direction.
Stephanie Schmit addressed a group of Kansas child care advocates, reminding them that, while the reauthorization of CCDBG includes provisions aimed at improving quality and expanding access, it did not come with the guarantee of additional funding.