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Finance Reform-Related Issue Briefs

2006

Structured Conversations

Shared Services: Building Infrastructure for the Early Care and Education Industry

Emerging Entities to Govern and Manage Early Care & Education at the Community and State Levels

New Partnerships: Early Care & Education and Regional/Transportation Planning

One System or Two? Integrating the Universal Pre-Kindergarten Movement into Early Care & Education System Building

The Respective Roles of Market and Non-Market Care in an Early Care & Education System

Estimating the Cost of the Early Childhood System Services and Infrastructure: Tools, Approaches and Political Considerations

Using Principles of Economics and Community Development to Shape Business Leaders' Agendas

Framing Our Message to Communicate Effectively

2005

Early Childhood Finance Learning Community Discussions

Case Study Instructions

Case Study Topic #1: Creating a Comprehensive Early Childhood Assessment System

Case Study Topic #2: Reframing a Business-Sponsored Early Childhood Finance Strategy

Case Study Topic #3: Linking Child Outcomes to a Quality Rating System

Discussion #1: Linking Finance to Program and Practitioner Standards: Financing Quality Rating Systems

Discussion #2: Child Care and Early Education Financial Aid: Adaptations from Higher Education

Discussion #3: Economic Development: New Strategies for Employers, Planners and Local Governments to Promote Quality Child Care

Discussion #4: Initiative and Referendum: What can we learn from the Washington State experience?

Discussion #5: Financing the Early Childhood System Infrastructure: How do we identify and allocate costs?

Discussion #6: Collective Management: New Strategies for Shared Services

Discussion #7: Squeezing Lemons into Lemonade: Should advocates compromise the ideal to secure funding for early childhood services?

Discussion #8: New Economic Research on the Impact of Preschool: How do we use this research to increase economic investment in early care and education?

2004

Education Links: How do we establish universal preschool in a way that builds the early care and education system as a whole?

Public Engagement: How do we make paid family leave a part of the early care and education system?

Economies of Scale: Multi-Site Centered-Based Approaches:
Are there innovative ways to reach economies of scale? What have we learned about this approach in general as it relates to multi-site, center-based approaches?

Economies of Scale: Home-Based Alliances:
Are there innovative ways to reach economies of scale? What have we learned about this approach in general as it relates to home-based alliances?

Economies of Scale: Support Services Alliances:
Are there innovative ways to reach economies of scale? What have we learned about this approach in general as it relates to support services alliances?

Tax Policy:
What are the tools? What are the pros and cons of tax policy to increase investment in early care and education? What have we learned about implementation?

Aligning Public Finance Systems:
How can we most effectively maximize resources and build cohesive early care and education systems at the state level?

Capital Finance:
Are there effective public-private strategies for building early care and education facilities?

Economic Development Links:
How do we use child care economic impact studies to help craft new approaches to public policy? How can we increase public investment using these arguments?

Costing Out The System:
How can we develop a comprehensive, cross-system approach to determining a per-child cost for early care and education?

Public Engagement:
Are ballot initiatives an effective tool to raise funds for early care and education?

2003

Are there Economies of Scale - New Ways to Organize Early Care and Education in Terms of Administration, Finance, etc. to Stabilize the Industry

How Do We Move Direct Support for Early Care and Education from a Short-Term Initiative to a Long-Term part of the Finance Infrastructure?

What are the Relative Roles of Federal, State and Local Investment in Community-Designed Early Care and Education Systems?

What is the Relative Power of Different Revenue Generation Methods?

How Can We Frame Investment in Early Care and Education as Economic Development?

How Can We Move from a Flawed Subsidy System for the Poor to Financial Aid for All Families that Need It?

How Can We Use Tax Credits to Finance Early Care and Education?

Is Public/Consumer/Voter Engagement Necessary to Get Increased Investment and Finance Reform?

How Can We Incorporate Paid Family Leave into Our Finance System?