Nationwide, the supply of infant and toddler #ECE does not meet demand, and the costs of care are #unaffordable for many #families. Curious about the status in your state? Check out our new @urbaninstitute.bsky.social snapshots! www.urban.org/data-tools/s...

State Snapshots of Infant and Toddler Early Care and Education

State-by-state breakdowns of the supply, demand, affordability, and licensing requirements for early child care and education.

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How can we build more -- and better -- child care in America? @justinbdoromal.bsky.social and I have been studying one answer: raise wages for the early childhood workforce. Here are three key lessons from state and local wage boost initiatives from coast to coast: www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...

Three Considerations for Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care by Raising Early Educators’ Wages

To improve child care access and quality, pay raises for the early childhood workforce must be implemented with careful consideration for which staff members are eligible, what the potential drawbacks...

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Hot off the presses! New findings from our study team: applications for DC’s universal pre-k program have remained steady despite fewer young children in the District. www.urban.org/urban-wire/a...

Applications for DC’s Prekindergarten Lottery Have Remained Steady Despite Fewer Young Children in the District

Washington, DC’s free, universal prekindergarten lottery is a rarity nationwide, and it has managed to sustain its importance to DC families, even as more and more leave the city.

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Proud to join @urbaninstitute.bsky.social colleagues in unpacking how cities in general - and DC in particular - can be the ideal place to raise a family. www.urban.org/urban-wire/c...

Cities Are Worried About Losing Families. DC Can Set an Example for How to Keep Them.

Washington, DC, already has policies for making the city more attractive and affordable for families with young children, but the mayor’s proposed budget reduces or eliminates funding for many of thes...

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🤔 What kind of Pre-K experience sets students up for long-term success? Our new working paper offers important new evidence to help answer this question! 🔗 edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai25-1194.pdf And 🧵👇

A new summary from the Urban Institute documents the benefits of DC’s #wage enhancement program for early childhood educators – the Early Childhood Educator Pay #Equity Fund – for educator retention in #childcare centers, especially centers accepting child care subsidies. urbn.is/DCFundWage

🌟What if early educators were paid like K-12 teachers? New evidence from Washington, DC shows what would happen: more stability in the child care workforce, higher-quality caregiving, and greater mental health and financial well-being for early educators.🌟 #EduSkyECEC www.urban.org/research/pub...

Wage Enhancements Benefit Child Care Staffing in DC

In this summary, we provide sustained evidence of the benefits of the District of Columbia’s wage enhancement program for early childhood educators, the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, to ch...

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This week, the #DC school lottery will match thousands of families with their first public school. But there is more than one path to enrollment bliss--especially in #pre-k. Check out our new brief on Pathways to Pre-K for more. www.urban.org/research/pub... @justinbdoromal.bsky.social #EduSkyECEC

Pathways to Pre-K

In this brief, we map out families’ experiences across application and enrollment to illustrate how families come to enroll, or not enroll, in Pre-K3, DC’s public prekindergarten program for 3-year-ol...

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Big news! We @urbaninstitute.bsky.social are thrilled to partner with the Bainum Family Foundation's WeVision EarlyEd initiative to help make the ideal real in early childhood by building evidence with families and early childhood professionals. bainumfdn.org/transforming... #EduSkyECEC #EduSky

7.5 million students with disabilities stand to be impacted by #federal changes to the US Department of #Education. New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social research shows how.

Urban Institute@urbaninstitute.bsky.social · last yr.

Dismantling the US Department of Education could affect public school students with disabilities. A new Urban Wire piece provides an overview of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and examines potential impacts of disrupting the Department of Education’s key functions.

Amidst all the chaos and upheaval in the education policy world, @annenberginstitute.bsky.social will be hiring several senior research associates in the coming months. Hopefully this helps some of the stellar education policy people find their footing again!

🌟 Did you know that Washington, DC is home to the country’s leading early childhood policy innovations? State and local tax revenue power universal preschool, fair wages for early educators, and much more. In turn, these investments inform communities across the US, improving lives nationwide. 🌟

Another great resource: the Segregation Tracking Project. We built off NCES data to create Longitudinal Imputed School Database. Race/eth and free lunch data for every school in the US 1991-2022. We impute erroneous/missing data but retain original CCD values. edopportunity.org/segregation/

The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford | The Segregation Tracking Project

Use our visualizations to explore educational opportunity in your school & community.

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Erica Greenberg@ericahgreenberg.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer

New @urbaninstitute.bsky.social research shows that federal programs being discussed for cuts spend a disproportionate share of their funds on children. Cuts could massively increase childhood poverty, reduce access to healthcare, & worsen educational outcomes www.urban.org/urban-wire/h...

Great coverage of new findings from our DC Pre-K study c/o @conorpwilliams.bsky.social! @anikaalam.bsky.social @justinbdoromal.bsky.social

New evidence confirms what we know well: starting early is best for students, families, and education systems. Great new essay from @anikaalam.bsky.social and our DC PreK study team published by the Learning Curve @urbaninstitute.bsky.social. #edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec

Matt Chingos@chingos.bsky.social · 2y ago

The latest Learning Curve essay looks at how DC's prek program for 3-year-olds mitigated school enrollment declines during the pandemic. Read more from @anikaalam.bsky.social @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social & colleagues: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Sometimes researchers are lucky enough to study solutions. Our work on DC's Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund is 2 years in the making and findings are clear. We know now what a big change it has brought to people's lives. It was long overdue. www.npr.org/2024/12/12/n...

How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich

In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

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Proud of our Partner Spotlight from @dcedresearchcollab.bsky.social! dceducationcollaborative.org/partner-spot...

Urban Institute Explores Multiple Areas of Research on Public Pre-K in DC

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Looking for data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity? Follow us at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social with this great new starter pack! 🎉 go.bsky.app/8vqjVD2

New @npr.org reporting features DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund and the evidence we are building on its many benefits—and lingering challenges. #edusky #edpolisky #eduskyecec www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

D.C.'s pay equity fund helps increase wages for child care workers

So far, it has helped stabilize and grow the supply of child care workers, helping working families as well as child care workers themselves.

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Interested in pay equity for early childhood educators? Tune into our webinar this afternoon! #EduSky #AcademicSky www.urban.org/events/benef...

Benefits of the District of Columbia’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund for Workforce Well...

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First up, three new fact sheets from our study of DC's pathbreaking Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund highlight benefits to early educators' financial well-being, staff recruitment and retention, and program quality. www.urban.org/research/pub...

Wage Supplements Strengthen the Child Care Workforce

This fact sheet shares 2023 survey and focus group findings from early educators eligible for from the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund in the District of Columbia.

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What a day to open up, @bsky.app! On this account, I’ll be sharing early childhood policy research and the occasional kid pics.