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Financing Early Childhood Education
- The Case for Investing in PreK-3rd Education: Challenging Myths about School Reform
June 3, 2010 The Foundation for Child Development Policy to Action Brief Series No. 1 Why do so many Americans believe that elementary schools are doing a fine job despite clear evidence to the contrary?
- Financing Services for 3- and 4-Year-Olds in a PreK-3rd School
June 2, 2010 Issues in PreK-3rd Education; Number Two FirstSchool is part of a national PreK-3rd movement of schools, districts, educators and universities seeking to improve how children from ages 3 to 8 learn and develop in schools.
- An Evidence-Based Approach to Estimating the National and State Costs of PreK-3rd
June 2, 2010 Education finance policy researchers, Lawrence O. Picus, Allan Odden, and Michael Goetz, apply their evidence-based approach to estimate the national and state-by-state costs of PreK-3rd approaches.
- PreK-3rd: What is the Price Tag?
June 2, 2010 Foundation for Child Development Policy to Action Brief Series No. 2 In a time of great fiscal constraints, policymakers and educators are focusing not only on raising student achievement, but also on making more strategic use of the available funds.
- Including Community and Parent Engagement in Estimating the National Costs of an Integrated PreK-3rd Program
June 1, 2010 Lawrence O. Picus and Associates review research on parent engagement programs at the PreK-3rd level, and identify programs with greater promise of academic success for children.
- Federal Expenditures on Pre-Kindergarteners and Kindergarteners in 2008 (Ages 3 through 5)
May 28, 2010 This report provides a first-time analysis of the nation’s current spending on PreKindergartners and Kindergartners by examining 2008 federal expenditures from more than 100 federal programs on children ages 3 through 5. Findings show that six programs accounted for approximately two-thirds of all federal expenditures on this age group in 2008: Head Start, Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and three tax programs (the child tax credit, the earned income tax credit, and the dependent exemption). Programs that specifically focus on the care and education of children ages 3 through 5 represent 23 percent of total federal expenditures.
- Federal Expenditures on Elementary-Age Children in 2008 (Ages 6 through 11)
May 28, 2010 This report provides a first-time analysis of the nation’s current spending on elementary-age children by examining 2008 federal expenditures from more than 100 federal programs on children ages 6 through 11. Findings show that six programs account for 63 percent of the expenditures on elementary-age children.
- Public Investment in Children’s Early and Elementary Years (Birth to Age 11)
May 28, 2010 How government spends money, and who benefits, reveals our priorities.