To promote children's healthy development and give them opportunities to flourish, families need a wide range of support services. These services are often disconnected from each other. Early care and education (ECE) has a particularly fragmented system (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2018). Systems with myriad processes…

Minnesota provides supplemental state funding to existing federal Head Start and Early Head Start (EHS) grantees to increase their capacity to serve additional infants, toddlers, and pregnant women. The initiative was started in 1997 when the state legislature earmarked $1 million of the general state Head Start supplemental funds for children…

Missouri's Early Head Start/Child Care Partnership Project expands access to Early Head Start (EHS) services for children birth to age 3 by developing partnerships between federal Head Start, EHS contractors, and child care providers. Head Start and EHS contractors that participate in the initiative provide services through community child care…

Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) has developed this resource to help state leaders strategize how to create or improve early childhood systems to meet the needs of vulnerable babies and toddlers, their families, and pregnant women. Every state has the pieces of a comprehensive early childhood system in place. This tool will help state…

In the 1980s, there was a notable increase in state funding of preschool programs, particularly for economically disadvantaged children. In fiscal year 1988, a total of 28 states projected program expenditures of almost 226 million dollars. The Administration for Children, Youth, and Families funded a study to explore Head Start's relationship to…

This report contains recommendations for specific actions necessary to improve the system of higher education in South Carolina. It recommends (1) allowing the College of Charleston to become a state supported college; (2) organizing a separate system of junior colleges; (3) encouraging cooperation between the University branches and Technical…

Mississippi continues to lead the nation in excessive infant deaths, as shown by the 1984 infant mortality rate of 14.4 deaths per 1,000 live births. This report offers recommendations for actions that should be taken by various entities to rectify the problem. Recommendations are made in the areas of (1) public awareness of teen pregnancy…

An American labor leader questions the nation's sense of priorities and offers his views on the sponsorship of day care services. (ED)

Data were collected from more than 180 respondents through a lengthy interview protocol in a study of the current trend toward state funding of preschool programs intended primarily for economically disadvantaged children. The study also explored the implications of the findings for Head Start planning and policy development. An executive summary…

To determine how state and institutional officials perceive their own state programs for student financial aid, what legislation exists or is proposed in the field, and what alternative steps should be recommended, 350 questionnaires were distributed to selected state officials, and to the largest public and private institutions of higher…

The problems confronting the public community colleges of Alabama are discussed, and alternatives are suggested. Following a brief discussion of the history and growth of Alabama's state junior colleges, the following major problems are identified, and solutions are proposed: (1) There must be a master plan to insure that the junior colleges are…

Although this State Legislatve Report is not intended to be a comprehensive or exhaustive report of funding methods used by all 50 states, it does present several examples of the alternatives states use to finance child care and early childhood education programs. Discussion focuses on background issues, child care fiscal policies, early childhood…

Completing a series of annual reports (all of which have been entered into the ERIC system), this thirteenth report summarizes information received from State Research Coordinating Units (RCU) regarding all state-administered research activities; all activities reported are included, whether or not they were funded under section 131(b) of Part C…

Many mentally ill children, especially those who are seriously disturbed, are not receiving the mental health care they need. Although the federal government offers financing to the states for child and adolescent mental health programming, the primary responsibility for financing mental health services has been assumed by state governments. At…

This preliminary report describes the planning efforts undertaken by local demonstration projects involved in the development of Texas' State Plan for Early Childhood Development. Thirteen projects were begun in 1973 to demonstrate various ways in which the state government could work with local government officials, public agencies, parents, and…