State Snapshots of Infant and Toddler Early Care and Education State-by-state breakdowns of the supply, demand, affordability, and licensing requirements for early child care and education.

Nationwide, the supply of infant and toddler #ECE does not meet demand, and the costs of care are #unaffordable for many #families. Curious about the status in your state? Check out our new @urbaninstitute.bsky.social snapshots!

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Three Considerations for Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care by Raising Early Educators’ Wages To improve child care access and quality, pay raises for the early childhood workforce must be implemented with careful consideration for which staff members are eligible, what the potential drawbacks...

How can we build more -- and better -- child care in America? @justinbdoromal.bsky.social and I have been studying one answer: raise wages for the early childhood workforce.

Here are three key lessons from state and local wage boost initiatives from coast to coast: www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...

Applications for DC’s Prekindergarten Lottery Have Remained Steady Despite Fewer Young Children in the District Washington, DC’s free, universal prekindergarten lottery is a rarity nationwide, and it has managed to sustain its importance to DC families, even as more and more leave the city.

Hot off the presses! New findings from our study team: applications for DC’s universal pre-k program have remained steady despite fewer young children in the District.

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Cities Are Worried About Losing Families. DC Can Set an Example for How to Keep Them. Washington, DC, already has policies for making the city more attractive and affordable for families with young children, but the mayor’s proposed budget reduces or eliminates funding for many of thes...

Proud to join @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues in unpacking how cities in general - and DC in particular - can be the ideal place to raise a family. www.urban.org/urban-wire/c...

A screenshot of the abstract of the working paper

Figure 1: School Enrollment Pathways for Lottery Winners and Control Group Students through 8th Grade. This figure represents school enrollment pathways across different school types (BPS, BPS Exam School, non-BPS district school, charter school, and other) for both lottery winners and the control group. The thickness of the lines represents the percentage of lottery winners/control group students that are enrolled in each type of school. Blue lines show the pathways taken by lottery winners, and BPS-specific school categories are highlighted in the light blue boxes. BPS = Boston Public Schools.

🤔 What kind of Pre-K experience sets students up for long-term success?

Our new working paper offers important new evidence to help answer this question!

🔗 edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1194.pdf

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Figure 1 shows Movement within and out of DC's center-based child care educator workforce, March 2023 to March 2024. At the top, a green shades shows the Newly employed in DC child care centers (679). From left to right in the middle, a blue shade shows Employed in a DC child care center, March 2023 (3,226), Remained at same center (2,057), and Employed in a DC child care center, March 2024 (2,999). Under the blue section, there is a gray section that lists Switched centers (267). At the bottom, a yellow/gold shade lists Left DC child care centers (902). The source is Urban Institute analysis of Division of Early Learning Licensing Tool (DELLT) data. Notes read that based on 3,905 unique educators observed across both time points. We used hire and separation dates included in the DELLT data to determine employment as of March 1st each year. We also used an educator's presence in one file but not another file to determine departure and/or new employment. Note that 64 educators that left DC child care were employed in a facility that had closed by March 1, 2024, signaling a potential layoff. The Urban Institute is listed in blue and black in the bottom right-hand corner.

A new summary from the Urban Institute documents the benefits of DC’s #wage enhancement program for early childhood educators – the Early Childhood Educator Pay #Equity Fund – for educator retention in #childcare centers, especially centers accepting child care subsidies. urbn.is/DCFundWage

Sustaining DC’s Pay Equity Fund Would Stabilize Families and Child Care Centers As DC faces economic uncertainty, a fund that continues to help child care providers pay their staff competitive wages will boost educator compensation, keep child care businesses open, and help famil...

All of this means good news for families, too.

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Wage Enhancements Support the Financial Well-Being and Mental Health of Early Childhood Educators This summary describes the ongoing benefits of the District of Columbia’s wage enhancement program for early childhood educators, the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, to early childhood educa...

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Wage Enhancements Promote High-Quality Child Care in DC The District of Columbia began enhancing the wages of early childhood educators in its licensed child care facilities in 2022 through a landmark initiative supported by tax revenue. The initiative is ...

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Wage Enhancements Benefit Child Care Staffing in DC In this summary, we provide sustained evidence of the benefits of the District of Columbia’s wage enhancement program for early childhood educators, the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, to ch...

🌟What if early educators were paid like K-12 teachers? New evidence from Washington, DC shows what would happen: more stability in the child care workforce, higher-quality caregiving, and greater mental health and financial well-being for early educators.🌟

#EduSkyECEC

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Pathways to Pre-K In this brief, we map out families’ experiences across application and enrollment to illustrate how families come to enroll, or not enroll, in Pre-K3, DC’s public prekindergarten program for 3-year-ol...

This week, the #DC school lottery will match thousands of families with their first public school. But there is more than one path to enrollment bliss--especially in #pre-k. Check out our new brief on Pathways to Pre-K for more.
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@justinbdoromal.bsky.social #EduSkyECEC

Pathways to Pre-K In this brief, we map out families’ experiences across application and enrollment to illustrate how families come to enroll, or not enroll, in Pre-K3, DC’s public prekindergarten program for 3-year-ol...

Great explainer, @maustermuhle.bsky.social! We followed up with an analysis of recent trends in the school lottery and found that more families are now finding success after the lottery run. Hope this helps as results come out this week! www.urban.org/research/pub...

Big news! We @urbaninstitute.bsky.social are thrilled to partner with the Bainum Family Foundation's WeVision EarlyEd initiative to help make the ideal real in early childhood by building evidence with families and early childhood professionals.

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#EduSkyECEC #EduSky

7.5 million students with disabilities stand to be impacted by #federal changes to the US Department of #Education.

New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social research shows how.

Hiring Soon flyer for the Annenberg Institute at Brown University for senior research associates positions. More information will be shared on the institute's website soon.

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

DC Child Care Policy Research Partnership

And here is a growing body of evidence on child care innovations, including the pathbreaking Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund. www.urban.org/projects/dc-...

A Study of Public Prekindergarten in the District of Columbia

For more evidence from DC, check out our study of universal preschool. www.urban.org/policy-cente...

🌟 Did you know that Washington, DC is home to the country’s leading early childhood policy innovations? State and local tax revenue power universal preschool, fair wages for early educators, and much more. In turn, these investments inform communities across the US, improving lives nationwide. 🌟

Another great resource: the Segregation Tracking Project. We built off NCES data to create Longitudinal Imputed School Database. Race/eth and free lunch data for every school in the US 1991-2022. We impute erroneous/missing data but retain original CCD values.

edopportunity.org/segregation/

The Urban Institute’s Education Data Portal offers users the ability to view data endpoints and select summary endpoints directly in their web browser. Users can access this application programming interface (API) by directly hitting a URL endpoint or by using Stata or R. All data are returned in JSON format and can be viewed directly in a web browser.

Here is the Education Data Portal, a full API for users of Stata and R: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟

#EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC
educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social research shows that federal programs being discussed for cuts spend a disproportionate share of their funds on children.

Cuts could massively increase childhood poverty, reduce access to healthcare, & worsen educational outcomes www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Great coverage of new findings from our DC Pre-K study c/o @conorpwilliams.bsky.social!

@anikaalam.bsky.social @justinbdoromal.bsky.social

New evidence confirms what we know well: starting early is best for students, families, and education systems.

Great new essay from @anikaalam.bsky.social and our DC PreK study team published by the Learning Curve @urbaninstitute.bsky.social.

#edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec

How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

Sometimes researchers are lucky enough to study solutions.

Our work on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund is 2 years in the making and findings are clear.

We know now what a big change it has brought to people's lives. It was long overdue.

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Our 5-year study of universal preschool in Washington, DC shows that "public pre-K for 3-year-olds appears to stabilize children’s early educational experiences, especially those starting furthest from opportunity, and provide a strong foundation for later learning." #edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec

Urban Institute Explores Multiple Areas of Research on Public Pre-K in DC

Proud of our Partner Spotlight from @dcedresearchcollab.bsky.social!

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Looking for data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity? Follow us at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social with this great new starter pack! 🎉

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A program in D.C. raised the wages of child care workers. How's it going now? Sign in or register to see your station everywhere you enjoy NPR.

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