Affordable child care is a crucial support for working parents, and the early educational experiences thatoccur in child care and preschool settings are equally crucial for children's development. In 2014, theChild Care Development Block Grant (CCDBG), which funds the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF)1--the largest federal source of funding assistance for low-income working parents to secure affordable,quality child care--was reauthorized. With reauthorization came new provisions requiring states to worktowards more equal access to care and increased supply of high quality, affordable care. Motivated bythese provisions, policymakers and researchers are paying increasing attention to issues related to childcare access and supply, and are in pressing need of research, conceptual frameworks, measurementstrategies, data sources, and technologies to better understand, measure, monitor, and address issues ofincreased and equal access to quality, affordable care
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Published By
- The Massachusetts Child Care Research Partnership
- Institute for Child, Youth & Family Policy (ICYFP), Heller School For Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University
Funded By
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Massachusetts Child Care Research Partnership Grant, sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning
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- Copyright 2018 by The Massachusetts Child Care Research Partnership. All rights reserved.