Transcript ECE Finance: Framing Our Discussion

Re-alignment and Re-purposing:
How can states maximize existing
funding to support cross-sector
QRIS?
Finance Learning Table, Session 4
Louise Stoney and Anne Mitchell
Alliance for Early Childhood Finance
National Center on Child Care Quality Improvement
Key Principles
• Most states already spend $ to improve the
quality of ECE settings
• Often these dollars are scattered across a
range of initiatives with different goals,
strategies, target populations
• QRIS can be a framework for aligning these
dollars so that the various parts of the system
begin to move in the same direction
Remember that…
• Resources can be people as well as dollars
(e.g. where and how can staff be re-directed?)
• Resources can come from a wide range of
agencies – not just CCDF or TANF
• Resources can be public or private (e.g. how
can I get my private sector funders on board?)
Think Systems
When developing strategies to re-purpose
dollars focus on crafting supports in a
systems-building manner that creates
incentives to:
• Participate in QRIS
• Improve program quality
• Strengthen (and measure) outcomes for
children
Re-Structuring/Re-Purposing Funding for QRIS
Initiative or
Funding
CCR&R
Practitioner
Training Grants
Mental Health
Consultants
Infant/Toddler
Consultants
TEACH
WAGES
Private Foundation
Grants
Child Care
Licensing
PreK Monitoring
HS Performance
Review
NAEYC
Accreditation
other Accreditation
Part C of IDEA
Part B of IDEA
How Link to
QRIS
Pros
Cons
Change Needed
Who can Lead
Making the Case:
Current CCDF $ Must be Re-Purposed
CCDF Quality Expenditure Breakdown in the
State of Blue
Training
(contracts &
scholarships)
CCR&R
(core + I/T
Resource
Ctrs)
Automation
Legally Exempt
Enforcement
Misc (Research,
Rate Survey,
etc.)
State Ops:
licensing, crim
history, legal
Making the Case:
Using the CEM to understand trade-offs
Cost Summary: Options for Scaling Quality Counts
(in millions)
Prof
Dev
Technical
Assist
Financial
Incent
Assess,
Monitor
Admin
Evaluation
Data
Public
Aware
Facility
Fund
Shared
Services
on-line
Total
Option 1
(QC as is.
For all)
3.703 8.983 13.714 3.919
.334
.200
.100
$30.953
1.518 3.032 4.712 2.006
.133
.194
.100
$11.695
3.067 2.893 5.921 3.473
.193
.194
.100
1.000 .024
2.102 1.019 3.099 3.473
.134
.198
.100
1.000 .024 $11.148
Option 1
(QC as is,
targeted)
Option 2
(Team
recommend)
$16.865
Option 3
(CostNeutral)
Thank You
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