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Download full textKovach, Melissa – Public Policy Forum, 2011
In collaboration with the Wisconsin Early Childhood Association (WECA), the Public Policy Forum surveyed 1,425 child care center directors, center employees, and family child care providers statewide. The survey was designed to provide a picture of the status of Wisconsin's child care workforce in terms of educational attainment, experience,…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Caregivers, Child Care Centers, Administrators
Kovach, Melissa; Dickman, Anneliese; Lam, Eva – Public Policy Forum, 2010
Throughout the United States, investments in high-quality early childhood education are seen by community leaders as a strategy for improving outcomes in areas such as K-12 education, workforce development, and economic development. Indeed, many research studies conclude that high quality early learning environments produce social, educational,…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Child Care
Dickman, Anneliese; Kovach, Melissa; Smith, Annemarie; Henken, Rob – Public Policy Forum, 2010
As policymakers in Madison redesign the state's child care subsidy program--known as Wisconsin Shares--it is important to understand the original vision for the program. This report investigates the development and implementation of Wisconsin Shares and its linkages to the state's landmark W-2 welfare reform initiative. In particular, the authors…
Descriptors: Child Care, Grants, State Programs, State Aid
Kovach, Melissa; Lam, Eva; Dickman, Anneliese – Public Policy Forum, 2009
Discussions of early childhood care and education usually focus on its social and educational value, and how it helps children and families. More recently, the focus in many states, including Wisconsin, has been on potential investments in child care quality improvements as strategies for improving long-term educational outcomes for disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Employment Level, Early Childhood Education, Outcomes of Education
Kovach, Melissa – Public Policy Forum, 2009
As the first state to offer universal preschool to three-year-olds, Illinois' experience with early childhood education (ECE) policy reform efforts offers lessons about how such change takes shape. This report details Illinois' ECE activities from 1992 to the present, with a particular focus on the business role in ECE policy. Lessons learned…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Business, Community Involvement, School Business Relationship
Kovach, Melissa – Public Policy Forum, 2009
The report details Minnesota's early childhood education (ECE) activities from 2003 to the present, with a particular focus on the role of the business community. Although the report illustrates how fact-based information, partnered with dedicated and well-connected people and organized task forces, creates change, there remain components of…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, School Business Relationship, Educational Change
