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Tax Credits for Early Care and Education: Funding Strategy for a New Economy (2011). This issue brief from Opportunities Exchange examines one ECE financing strategy that thus far has not received the attention it deserves—the use of tax credits to raise the quality of services and to make high-quality ECE more available to low-income and working-poor families.
The Iron Triangle: A Simple Formula for Financial Policy in ECE Programs (2010). This brief, written by Louise Stoney and Anne Mitchell, describes a simple formula to help ECE programs stay on track financially.
Aligning Finance with Common Standards (2010) These graphics, created by Louise Stoney, 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.
Dedicating Trust Land Revenue for Early Care and Education (2010) This policy memo, prepared by Helene Stebbins of HMS Policy Research, describes how Nebraska passed a constitutional amendment to use revenue generated from the public school trust land to for early childhood education and explores the possibility of replicating the Nebraska strategy in other states. A summary of land grant resources and rules in 20 states is included in the Appendix
Maximizing Resources from the Stimulus Package: Possible Strategies for Funding Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (2009), this brief was prepared by Stoney and Mitchell for the BUILD Initiative in 2009, and is a demonstration of the many ways that Americal Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding can be used to support QRIS.
Using Tax Credits to Promote Quality Early Care and Education. (2009) Nearly every state has, or is developing, an early care and education quality rating and improvement system (QRIS). But many states find that only a small percentage of providers participate and that parents often do not use the system to guide decision-making. Last year Louisiana enacted an innovative tax credit package designed to address these concerns by offering financial rewards for those who participate in Quality Start the state’s new QRIS. This blog, written by Louise Stoney, in June 2009, for New America’s Early Education Watch, summarizes the tax credit package. (Also available on New America Foundation’s Archived Blog Page)
Quality Rating and Improvement System Financial Incentives (2008) Anne W. Mitchell, Kristen Kerr and Juana Armenta compiled the information in this table, which summarizes a range of financial incentives used to support QRIS, from publicly available sources including websites and other publications.
Using Tax Credits to Promote Quality Early Care and Education. (2007) This paper by Stoney and Mitchell explores the feasibility of using tax credits, linked to quality/accountability measures like a QRIS, to help promote, and partially finance, higher quality early care and education services. Tax credits and deductions in other fields are examined, with an eye to identifying tax policies that offer lessons for ECE.
Smarter Reform: Moving Beyond Single Program Solutions to an Early Care and Education System (2006). By Anne Mitchell, Louise Stoney and Mildred Warner This article, published in the Journal of the Community Development Society, Vol. 37, No. 2, Summer 2006, challenges ‘siloed’ thinking and describes a national, multi-faceted approach to early care and education finance.
Smarter Reform: A National Policy Agenda for an Early Care and Education System (2006). Louise Stoney and Anne Mitchell, co-founders of the Alliance for Early Childhood Finance, offer a five point plan for early care and education policy and finance in the United States.
Financing Early Childhood Care and Education Systems: A Standards-Based Approach (2006). This paper, written in 2004 by Anne Mitchell and Louise Stoney for the James A Baker III Institute for Public Policy, discusses why early childhood finance reform is rooted in standards, and describes a standards-based approach to financing the ECE system. The paper was revised and included in a book, edited by Alvin Tarlov, entitled “Nurturing the National Treasure.”
Financing Quality Rating Systems: Lessons Learned (2004) Louise Stoney wrote this report, which identifies the steps involved in financing quality rating systems, for United Way of America Success By 6.
Financing Early Care and Education: A Primer for County Leaders (2003). This article was prepared by Louise Stoney for inclusion in a Tool Kit developed by the National Association of Counties in April 2003 as part of its Presidential Initiative on Early Childhood Development and School Readiness.
Innovative Strategies for Financing Quality Child Care (2002). This PowerPoint presentation, prepared by Anne Mitchell, offers a comprehensive overview of financing based on the 2001 edition of Financing Child Care in the U.S. The presentation includes how child care is currently financed, principles and lessons from other fields, innovative strategies in practice and advice on crafting new solutions.
We Don’t Just Need More Money: Visioning a New Child Care Financing Structure in Maine (2002). This powerpoint presentation, prepared by Louise Stoney, discusses a range of alternative ECE financing strategies that are based on “layered” funding and combine portable and direct financing. The links to economic development, and the need for new industry supports (to promote fiscal stability and economies of scale) are also discussed. The speech ends with a discussion of tax policy, and some new ideas that could provide benefits for both families and programs.
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Finance Reform: Visioning a New Approach to ECE Finance (2002). This paper accompanies the “We Don’t Just Need More Money…” PowerPoint presentation, and summarizes a speech given by Louise Stoney at the Maine Head Start Director’s Retreat in September 2002.
Financing Child Care in the United States (2001). This updated edition of the catalog provides information on innovative early care and education financing strategies. First published in 1997, the 2001 edition offers 78 profiles. Each profile describes the strategy, when it was initiated, the amount of funding it generates, how funds are distributed, what services are funded, and who is eligible to receive them. The profiles also identify other sites using similar financing strategies and contact information so the reader can follow up for more information.
Financing Early Care and Education in New York State (2001). This briefing paper was prepared for the Early Child Care Education for All Conference by Louise Stoney and describes a range of financing options, including those currently used by states and cities as well as new approaches that have yet to be tried. that was developed, which depicts the proposed financing options.
Financial Options for Universal Prekindergarten (1998). Written by Anne Mitchell, this technical assistance paper was prepared to help school districts and communities in New York make innovative use of the state’s new universal prekindergarten program. The report describes several methods for ‘blending’ funding to create higher quality, full working day programs using available resources such as Head Start, public funds for child care, special education funds and parent tuition. The concepts are described in sufficient detail to make the paper useful to anyone interested in creating early childhood programs using multiple funding sources.
Looking into New Mirrors: Lessons for Early Childhood Finance and System-Building (1998). Louise Stoney authored this report, which draws upon successful financing strategies pioneered in housing, higher education, health care and education finance to inform the development of early care and education policy and finance. The report was sponsored by the Horizons’ Initiative, and funded by the James C. Penney Foundation.