The Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes (CEELO) and Illinois Action for Children hosted a Cost of Quality Early Learning Think Tank on May 16-17, 2018, in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting provided an opportunity for state and local leaders, advocates, and national experts engaged in cost studies of early learning programs to take stock of what we know about using cost data to inform and drive policy decisions on financing high-quality early learning programs. As a result of this meeting, participants gained a deeper, shared understanding of the political and strategic approaches needed to have a substantive impact on moving the field toward adequate and stable funding of high quality early learning programs. A forthcoming report will summarize the highlights from the meeting and will identify recommendations for the capacities, research and tools needed in the next 1-3 years to increase adequate and stable funding for high quality early care and education.
Cost of Quality Early Learning Think Tank – May 2018 Meeting Summary
Preliminary Materials
Meeting Handouts
- Determining Costs of Preschool Quality in Kentucky
- Chicago Universal Preschool Cost Study
- Preliminary Statewide, Regional, and Local Functions – Washington
- National Academies Consensus Study Report – Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education
- Fact Sheet – What is Minnesota’s Pay for Success Feasibility Study: Enhancing Voluntary Prekindergarten with the Pyramid Model?
- Oregon – Per child allocation, K-12 compared to Preschool Promise