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The Value of PA’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare
www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
The value of Pennsylvania’s
early education system
Select slides from the OCDEL budget powerpoint,
March 2011
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The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Overview
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Pennsylvania’s economic & education outlook
What early education can do to improve
Pennsylvania's outlook
The value of Pennsylvania’s early education
system
Vision for 2011-2012
Governor’s budget proposal
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Current outlook: slow recovery, higher
public costs
• PA, US facing “jobless”
recovery – economy will
not be back on track until
2015
• Estimate $4.2 state
budget deficit
• Increasing costs for
prisons, public
assistance, healthcare
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Future outlook: new, better jobs that
require more education
• Well-paid, low
skilled jobs a
thing of the past
• 63% percent of
jobs in the next
decade will
require some
post-secondary
education
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Current and future workforce not
prepared to fill 21st century jobs
• 60% of new jobs in the 21st century will require skills
that only 20% of the current American workforce has.
• Over 20% high school dropout rate in Pennsylvania
• U.S. students rank 17th out of 33 developed nations in
science proficiency and 25th in math.
• By 2018, US will have a 3 million college graduates gap
to meet labor demands
• If US doesn’t meet workforce needs, jobs may go
elsewhere
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
What early education can do to improve
Pennsylvania’s outlook
1. Helps control costs for special
education, public assistance,
prisons and health care
2. Facilitates job growth
3. Effectively prepares students
for new workforce demands
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
1. Savings on special education
• Serving 20% of
Pennsylvania’s fouryear olds in quality
pre-kindergarten
would save $68
million in special
education costs.
In PA, the average cost for
special education per student
is nearly $20,000 a year, 110%
more than typical education.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Early education helps control spending for
public assistance, prison, special education
and health care
• As adults, children from
quality early education
programs are less likely
to commit crimes or
require public
assistance; and are
more likely to retain
good jobs and have
higher earnings.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Savings on corrections
• Fight Crime Invest in Kids
PA spends on average
projects that high quality early $35,000 a year per
person in prison
learning could cut a quarter or
more of the costs of corrections in Pennsylvania.
Cutting a quarter of the $1.8 billion a year spent
on corrections in Pennsylvania would eventually
save $450 million a year.
Source: Source: Fight Crime Invest in Kids Pennsylvania, “Invest in Early Education Now, Spend Less on Prison
Later,” 2009
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Improved health outcomes, lower health
care costs
• Harvard University: children exposed to continued
toxic stress are more likely to have chronic diseases
as adults, such as diabetes and heart disease, and
cancer; early education helps prevent toxic stress for
young children.
• Columbia University: individuals who had received
the intensive early education starting in infancy had
significantly better health and better health behaviors
as young adults.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
2. Early education facilitates
job growth today
• Economic stimulus: Every
dollar spent on early education
generates $1.06 dollars in local
economy through local hiring and
purchasing goods and services
• Job producer: For every10 jobs
created in early education sector,
3 more jobs created outside early
education
Source: America’s Edge. “Strengthening
Pennsylvania’s Business through Investments in Early
Care and Education,” 2011
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Early education keeps parents working,
cuts absenteeism
• In Pennsylvania, approximately
60% of children under age six
need some form of child care as
their parents work.
• Parents with access to quality,
reliable early education are
more likely to be employed, be
productive, and have fewer
absences.
Employee absences due
to child care breakdowns
cost U.S. business
approximately $3 billion in
1998.
Source: Child Care Action Campaign. Child
Care: The Bottom Line. 1998.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Early education increases earning
potential
• Parents who can stay in
the workforce because of
early education can
experience a long-term
earnings increase up to
30% even after their
children leave early
education.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Because children who receive quality early education are
more likely to graduate high school and college, they can
more than double their earnings potential.
Note: Data are 2009 annual averages for persons age 25 and
over. Earnings are for full-time wage and salary workers.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
3. Early education prepares our future
workforce to attract, fill, create jobs
• The window of opportunity
is small. Many of the skills
that employer value that
many of the skills employers
value — such as being team
oriented, literate and
numerate — are essentially
shaped by age five.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Early education gives all children a level
playing field for future achievement
Pew Center on the States: Highquality pre-kindergarten programs,
especially for at-risk children, have
been shown to
• significantly improve children’s
early literacy, language and
math skills;
• decrease special education
placements by 50%; and
• reduce grade repetition by 33%
Differences in vocabulary growth
between children in low and high socioeconomic households begin to appear
as early as 18 months
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
By third grade, it may be too late
Reading proficiently by the end of third grade is a crucial
marker in a child’s educational development. Failure to
read proficiently is linked to higher rates of school
dropout, which suppresses individual earning potential
as well as the nation’s competitiveness and general
productivity.
Source: Annie E Casey Foundation, Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters, 2010
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Long-term return on investment in early
education
• Nobel Laureate
James Heckman:
The rate of return for
quality early
childhood education
is 10% per year.
This graph demonstrates that rates of return on human capital investment
decrease with age, with the highest return on investments at preschool age
(shaded in portion of the graph). (Heckman, 2008)
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
The benefits of quality early education
add up…
• A targeted pre-kindergarten program
costing $298 million in 2008 would:
– pay for itself in 9 years; and
– generate total benefits of $9.9 billion by 2050
Source: “Investments in Pennsylvania’s early childhood programs pay off now and later,” Pew
Center on the States, Partnership for America’s Economic Success, March 2011
The Value of PA’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare
www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
It’s a question about priorities.
Early childhood education is a
high return/low risk investment.
Michael J. Mandel, Ph.D., Former Chief Economist at BusinessWeek, at
the 2010 Early Learning Investment Commission’s Economic Summit
The Value of PA’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare
www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
The value of Pennsylvania’s early
education system
1. Setting the standard for early education in
Pennsylvania
2. Providing families with more quality early learning
choices
3. Maximizing impact of public resources
4. Demonstrating results for Pennsylvania’s children and
families
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
OCDEL’s Mission
The Office of Child Development and Early
Learning (OCDEL) promotes opportunities
for all Pennsylvania children and families by
building systems and providing supports that
help ensure access to high quality child and
family services.
The office is a joint initiative between the
Departments of Education and Public
Welfare.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
OCDEL Programs
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Child Care Certification
Child Care Works
Children’s Trust Fund
Early Intervention,
birth- five
• Full-Day Kindergarten
• Head Start Supplemental
Assistance Program
• Keystone Babies
• Keystone STARS/
PA Early Learning Keys
to Quality
• Parent-Child
Home Program
• Pennsylvania
Pre-K Counts
• Nurse-Family Partnership
• Public-private
partnerships
The Value of PA’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare
www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
1. Excellence by design: Setting the
standard for early education in PA
• Pennsylvania’s early
education programs are
designed to reflect
evidence-based best
practices for teacher and
program quality.
• Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts
meets or exceeds nearly every
quality benchmark identified by
the National Institute for Early
Education Research.
• PA is one of 23 states to
include all core components
for a quality rating and
improvement system for early
childhood programs through
Keystone STARS.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Design: PA Learning Standards for Early
Childhood
• Standards for Infant-Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, First
and Second Grade
• Outline the approaches to learning, (emerging) literacy and
numeracy, science and social studies, creative expression, social,
and physical skills that a child develops throughout the year and
provides guidance for activities to support this development in the
classroom and at home
Pennsylvania is one of the
• All OCDEL programs use the
first states to establish
learning standards for early
standards to guide instructional
childhood from birth
practice
through second grade and
• Align with 3rd-12th grade standards
commission an independent
study to ensure alignment of
all standards.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Design: Professional career track for
early childhood teachers
• Early Childhood Education
Career Lattice
• Three professional credentials
• Pennsylvania’s Quality
Assurance System for
professional development
• Financial and other supports
for early childhood teachers
and directors to earn
credentials, college degrees
More early childhood teachers
are earning credentials and
degrees than ever before
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Design: Child observation, assessment
and documentation of progress
• Programs assess children’s
development upon entry and
progress throughout the year
• Use information to guide
learning activities and share
with families
• Can help identify children with
special needs early and
provide services when they are
most beneficial
Early Learning Network
• Data system that gives
Pennsylvania the ability to review
children’s progress over time and
evaluate effectiveness of OCDEL
programs to improve child
outcomes.
• Progress for children participating
in Early Intervention, PA Pre-K
Counts, Head Start Supplemental,
and Keystone STAR 3 and 4
programs currently included.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Design: Monitoring classroom quality
• Independent assessments of
classrooms using nationallyrecognized Environment
Rating Scales (ERS)
• ERS a standard tool to assess
the quality of instruction in
Keystone STARS, Head Start
Supplemental Assistance
Program and Pennsylvania
Pre-K Counts programs
There is a six-year trend of
increasing quality in classrooms in
OCDEL programs
Note: Figure presents all available ECERS-R
scores, including Keystone STARS, PA Pre-K
Counts, and Head Start facilities.
Assessments are made at the classroom
level. Each data point is a single assessment
of a classroom
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Design: Linkages with school districts
• Early Learning Standards
aligned with 3rd-12th grade
academic standards
• Early childhood professional
development being aligned
with Teacher Certification
• Pennsylvania’s Inspired
Leadership program for school
leaders now includes early
education topics
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Design: More linkages with school
districts
• Pennsylvania’s Standard
Aligned System (SAS)
resources include early
education
• Title I Transition to
Kindergarten grants
• Local networks bring together
local schools and early
learning programs to help
children make smooth
transition to kindergarten
The percentage of school districts
offering pre-kindergarten has
quadrupled since 2003
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
2. Providing families with more quality
early learning choices
• Programs available at home, in child
care, Head Start, preschools, or schools
• Keystone STARS reversed a 10-year
trend of declining quality in child care
• Quality programs (Keystone STARS,
Head Start, Early Intervention) available
in every county
• The number of quality publicly-funded
pre-kindergarten opportunities has
doubled since 2002
Nearly 40% of parents
surveyed identified the
quality of their child’s
early learning program as
their greatest concern
Source: “The Economy’s Impact on
Parents’ Choices and Perceptions About
Child Care,” NACCRRA, Sept 2010
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Parents choosing quality early
education more than ever before
• Parents of more than half of
children receiving Child
Care Works subsidy enroll
their children in Keystone
STARS programs.
• Parents rate very high
satisfaction with OCDEL
programs on Family Survey.
Approximately 7,000
children were on waiting
lists for Head Start, PA Pre-K
Counts, Nurse-Family
Partnership at beginning of
2010-2011 school year.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
3. Maximizing resources: OCDEL
• Pennsylvania is one of the first
states to create a cohesive
Office of Child Development
and Early Learning (OCDEL)
that brings together the
resources and expertise for
early education, across the
Departments of Education and
Public Welfare.
Because of OCDEL:
• PA doesn’t have to duplicate
staff, systems or processes
• Quality and accountability of
PA’s early learning programs
better aligned
• Families can more easily
access the services they need
• School districts can more
easily partner with and provide
early education programs
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Maximizing resources: Reach and Risk
Assessment
• Report identifies cities and
counties where children are
most at risk of school failure
• OCDEL uses report to
determine best areas for
new/expanded early education
services
• Risk levels help determine
eligibility for programs like PA
Pre-K Counts and Keystone
Babies
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Maximizing resources: Comprehensive
accountability
• Pennsylvania monitors
programs’ adherence to
performance standards and
fiscal requirements through
data review and site visits.
• Pennsylvania’s Enterprise to
Link Information for Children
Across Networks (PELICAN)
data system helps prevent
children being enrolled in two
programs for the same time
period.
• Families applying for programs
that have eligibility guidelines
must show documentation that
they meet guidelines which
may include
– Documentation of income
– Documentation of work or
education
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
4. Results: Parents of at-risk children
choosing regulated care
• More families receiving Child
Care Works child care
assistance are choosing
regulated care than ever
before since the unification of
child care services for TANF,
former TANF and low income
families under the Child Care
Information Services (CCIS)
agencies in 2006-2007.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Results: Children entering school
ready to learn
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2009-2010 child outcomes for
preschoolers in Pennsylvania
Pre-K Counts, Keystone
STARS 3 and 4 centers, and
Head Start Supplemental
Assistance Program show
children are progressing
throughout the year and
coming to school ready to learn.
Each program is meeting the
needs of its populations, with 65% - 78% of children showing age-appropriate
language, numeracy and social skills by the end of the 2009-2010 program
year.
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Results: Quality early education programs
reducing needs for special education
• Evaluation by the OMG Center
for Collaborative Learning:
School districts serving the
largest number of PA Pre-K
Counts children had a fewer
percentage of children entering
kindergarten in 2008-2009 with
Individualized Education Plans
(IEPs) to address special
needs than districts enrolling
no PA Pre-K Counts children.
Percentage of kindergartners with IEPs
10.0%
9.0%
8.0%
7.0%
6.0%
5.0%
4.0%
3.0%
2.0%
1.0%
0.0%
8.1%
5.8%
Districts serving the largest
no. of children in PA Pre-K
Counts
Districts with no PA Pre-K
Counts
The value of Pennsylvania’s ECE system
Tom Corbett, Governor | Ronald J. Tomalis, Acting Secretary of Education | Gary D. Alexander, Acting Secretary of Public Welfare www.education.state.pa.us | www.dpw.state.pa.us
Results: Children continuing progress,
achievement in school
• Harrisburg: Third-grade children
who had participated in the highquality Harrisburg Preschool
Program (HPP) scored
significantly higher on
Pennsylvania System of School
Assessment (PSSA) tests than did
a matched group of students who
did not participate in HPP. (51 vs.
29 percent advanced/proficient in
math, 45 vs. 23 percent
advanced/proficient in reading).
• Pottstown: By the end of the
2009-2010 kindergarten year in
the Pottstown School District, 94%
of children who participated in PA
Pre-K Counts were at grade level
in early literacy, while 85% of the
total kindergarten population was
at grade level.