Educating & Caring for All Children
HSPC has been involved with Early Care and Education
(ECE) work at local, state, and national levels. We have
supplemented our data collection and analysis with forums on a variety of
ECE topics.
Early Care & Education: Ages Birth Five
- Financing Early Education
- We have developed and applied a model that helps state policy makers explore options for making high-quality Early Care and Education available to all children from birth to 5 years of age.
- The Child Care Workforce
- HSPC has prepared reports for the federal Child Care Bureau on sources and methods of counting the child care workforce in each state. We also provided a description of the child care industry and working parents in Washington State, and co-sponsored a forum on the economic impacts of Washington's child care industry.
- Supporting the Quality of Family, Friend, and Neighbor Care
- HSPC is following up its early work on family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) care in Washington by implementing and evaluating a program to strengthen the quality of FFN caregiving.
Elementary and Secondary Education: Grades PreK through 12
- Research Summaries on Strategies and Performance
- HSPC has developed a literature summary database spanning educational strategies and performance in Pre-K through 12th grade.
- State Reports on P-12 Financing
- Education Policy and Finance Project for Tennessee: Investments to Improve Student Performance
- Financing Quality Education from Pre-Kindergarten through 12th Grade
- We are working with a multidisciplinary team - the School Finance Redesign Project - to design a new framework for financing public education. HSPC's role in the project is to apply its policy cost modeling analysis, developed successfully for early education, to estimating the costs of K-12 finance systems that support improved student performance. In this analysis, we simulate the effects of various policy decisions, translating knowledge about children's learning directly into cost estimates. These cost estimates vary depending on the package of instructional, non-instructional, and organizational policies selected. We also analyze the degree to which alternative funding strategies target funds to disadvantaged students and communities.
Early Care & Education: PreK through Post Secondary
- Washington Kids Count P-20 Project
- Serving the Washington policy community with effective early learning through postsecondary analysis
