Early Childhood Systems Building Resource Guide

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Capacity Building Self-Assessment Tool

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The Capacity Building Self-Assessment Tool can help states and territories identify organizational strengths and challenges and effectively plan for achieving specified goals.

Building a Comprehensive State Policy Strategy to Prevent Expulsion from Early Learning Settings

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Building a Comprehensive State Policy Strategy to Prevent Expulsion from Early Learning Settings provides a review of expulsion research, discusses dimensions of expulsion, and...

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Emerging State Structures: Organizations the Promote Collaboration

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This excerpt from a National Conference of State Legislatures publication examines state organizations that are intended to promote collaboration...

Building A Sustainable Future: Analysis of the Fiscal Resources Supporting Children from Birth ThroughAge 8 in Michigan

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This report analyzes funding for children from birth through age 8 in Michigan to capture the transition from the early childhood system to the...

State Human Services Organization: Strategies for Improving Results

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This chapter, part of a five-part report, provides an overview of new directions for organizing state human services, factors that contribute to...

Leading for Results: Developing Talent to Drive Change

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This report describes Annie E. Casey’s results-based approach to leadership development and its impact in communities through its fellowship...

Spending Smarter A Funding Guide for Policymakers and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness

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This guide describes effective programs, highlights policy opportunities, and offers fiscal strategies to promote the emotional health of young...

All Together Now: State Experiences in Using Community-Based Child Care to Provide Pre-Kindergarten

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This report studies the emergence of the mixed-delivery model in which prekindergarten is delivered in community-based settings and schools. It...

State of the States’ ECCS Initiatives 

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This brief provides an overview of systems integration strategies and governance and structural mechanisms used by States participating in the...

Making Care Less Taxing: Improving State Child Care and Dependent Care Tax Provisions

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This report covers the 34 child and dependent care tax provisions in effect in 28 States in tax year 2010. The accompanying state report card,...

The Potential and Limitations of Impact Bonds: Lessons from the First Five Years of Experience Worldwide

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This report provides information on social impact bonds, a type of impact investing where private investors put up capital to fund a social...

Extra Credit: How Louisiana is Improving Child Care

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This report examines the impact of Louisiana’s School Readiness Tax Credits, a unique package of tax credits that has generated millions of...

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