| 来源类型 | Research Reports
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| ISBN | 9780833084996
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| 来源ID | RR-289/1-CSM
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| Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary |
| Ashley Pierson; Lynn A. Karoly; Gail L. Zellman; Megan K. Beckett
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| 发表日期 | 2014
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| 出版年 | 2014
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| 页码 | 16
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 结论 |
- The city has a diverse mix of public and private early and school-age care providers in home-based and center-based settings.
- The city funds its child care subsidies using tiered reimbursement, which gives providers an incentive to improve quality.
- The city and school district work together to provide before- and after-school offerings on every elementary- and middle-school campus.
- Many parents are positive about their experiences with care programs; they value the services the city offers.
- Parents are often unaware of the full range of care options and can find the system of care subsidies challenging to navigate.
- There is strong support for greater economic diversity of families in child care programs, particularly those that receive public funding.
- Parents indicated that the lack of flexible payment options (e.g., pay only for days attended) limited participation in after-school programs for children with nonstandard schedules.
- Moreover, parents often feel constrained in their choices by a lack of transportation for their school-age children to off-campus program options.
- There is a perceived need to improve the quality of early and school-age care programs, but objective measures of program quality are not routinely collected.
- The mixed public-private delivery system can result in a lack of alignment between early learning programs and elementary schools and between the school day and out-of-school programming.
- Some sources of public funds for early and school-age care may be underutilized, including tax system child care subsidies.
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| 摘要 |
- Develop a web-based portal for one-stop information on care providers and sources of financial support, including options for subsidies.
- Develop a strategic plan for expanding public preschool slots for fee-paying families and increase awareness of this option.
- Give priority enrollment for preschool slots in district schools to neighborhood children who will continue on to kindergarten.
- Coordinate offerings to meet programming and scheduling needs of school-age children and families, and ensure that participants can access the offerings with appropriate prorated fees.
- Develop transportation options to shuttle students from site to site.
- Collect periodic independent quality assessments; create additional incentives and capacity for improving program quality.
- Collect kindergarten readiness data that can be linked with preschool developmental assessments and subsequent student performance.
- Incorporate specific features in public preschool programs likely to attract full-fee families.
- Improve the quality of school-age programming, with a focus on broadening the scope of activities to appeal to middle- and higher-income families.
- Improve integration between preschool and early public elementary systems.
- More closely connect after-school staff and their activities with school-day staff and academic program.
- Encourage private- and public-sector employers to offer dependent care flexible spending accounts and to consider other ways of providing child care funding assistance to their employees.
- Use web-based portal and other outreach methods (e.g., public awareness campaigns) to increase parent knowledge and take-up of tax code subsidies for child care.
- Encourage enrollments by fee-paying parents in public programs to provide more sustainable funding and increase economic diversity.
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| 主题 | After-School Programs
; Infants
; Preschool
; Preschool Children
; Santa Monica
; Summer Learning
; Toddlers
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| URL | https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR289z1.html
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| 来源智库 | RAND Corporation (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/107695
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Ashley Pierson,Lynn A. Karoly,Gail L. Zellman,et al. Early and School-Age Care in Santa Monica: Current System, Policy Options, and Recommendations: Executive Summary. 2014.
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