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Quality Initiatives
National, State, or local initiatives that increase access to quality programs by providing parent education/consumer education and quality enhancements or improvements, including training and technical assistance; grants, scholarships, and other financial incentives; and other supports.
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The Abbott Preschool Program: Fifth Year Report on Enrollment and Budget (PDF) 
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This report documents the progress made in New Jersey to achieve the Abbott universal preschool mandate. The New Jersey Supreme Court based its preschool mandate on the research demonstrating that intensive,... [view more] | Library |
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Access to Medical Home (PDF)
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This issue brief by Early Childhood Iowa- Quality Services and Programs Component Group is intended to help inform policymakers about the importance of a medical home. Data from a survey of Iowa families... [view more] | Library |
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Accountability Systems: Improving Results for Young Children (PDF)
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This brief discusses key principles of effective accountability systems, describes the basic steps in developing an effective accountability system, and examines trade-offs inherent in designing such systems.... [view more] | Library |
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Accountability in Early Childhood: No Easy Answers (PDF)
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This paper examines the genesis of accountability testing in preschool and refutes the quality-assurance, production model assumptions that underlie its use with young children. The following arguments... [view more] | Library |
| Accountability: Advocates Work for Child Welfare Reform | This document indicates that Maryland’s Advocates for Children and Youth (ACY) won a huge victory for children when its multi-year effort resulted in the Maryland Child Welfare Accountability Act of 2006.... [view more] | Library |
| Accreditation Comparison, Revised 2003 | This chart compares accreditation standards for the Arizona Guidelines for Comprehensive Programs, the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the National Early Childhood Program Accreditation... [view more] | Library |
| Achieving Quality: Maryland’s Early Care and Education Programs, A Proposal For Ages Three Through Kindergarten, Executive Summary | This booklet describes ways for Maryland to achieve quality early care and education programs. Maryland already has many elements of a quality early care and education system in place. These systems and... [view more] | Library |
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Achieving Full-Day Kindergarten in New Mexico: A Case Study (HTML)
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This case study traces the evolution and development of New Mexico’s full-day kindergarten (FDK) program, a policy option that emerged on the State’s political landscape in the early 1990s, but failed... [view more] | Library |
| Achieving Quality: Maryland's Early Care and Education Programs, A Proposal for Ages Three Through Kindergarten | This report describes characteristics of quality early care and education programs and proposes a plan by the Maryland Committee for Children to ensure quality programs in Maryland for children aged 3... [view more] | Library |
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Achieving School Readiness: A 5-Year Action Agenda For Maryland (PDF)
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This report details the goals, strategies, and action steps that have been determined to be most critical in ensuring that Maryland’s children enter school ready to learn. The 5-Year Action Agenda is based... [view more] | Library |
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