Policy Briefs & Articles
- CCI Primer
2008 CCI Primer - Provides a comprehensive look at the early care and education services throughout the City. Our analysis, which includes data on access, funding, and services, helps members of the field, advocates and policy makers identify current challenges and opportunities.
2008 CCI Primer Addendum -This includes additional updated information from the latest edition of the Primer.
2008 CCI Primer Highlights - Provides a highlight of the early care and education services throughout the City. Our analysis, which includes data on access, funding, and services, helps members of the field, advocates and policy makers identify current challenges and opportunities.
- Infants and Toddlers
New York's Infant-Toddler Resource Center: Better Care for Babies -The first three years of life are fundamentally different from all others, with the brain growing at breakneck speed and creating the foundation for all later learning. Early experiences can greatly influence that development. With child care now a critical source of early experiences for a growing number of children, the New York City Infant-Toddler Resource Center arms practitioners and programs with the knowledge and skills they need to get babies and toddlers off to a good start.
10 Keys to Quality Infant Care - New York State now has a network of Infant-Toddler Resource Centers that offer training and technical assistance to adults caring for children under 3. The resource center website, www.babystepsnyc.org has a calendar of trainings and conferences, which promote best practices for infant and toddler programs, including the core components of quality care drawn from the latest research.
Infant and Toddler Programs - The Workforce - Read this policy brief to find out how a better trained workforce will directly impact the health and well-being of our children.
- Pre-K
Strengthening the Pre-K Investment: A Working Forum
The forum highlighted the newly released WBNY report Strengthening the Pre-K Investment: Next Steps to a Winning Beginning for Every Child in New York State. The report includes new data and lessons learned in the first 12 years of Pre-K implementation. The recommendations propose strategies to improve Pre-K as part of a comprehensive early care and learning system. download report - download 8-page summary
CCI played a key role in Pre-K implementation at both the city and state level and in creating a library of resources for pre-k implementation, including:
Strengthening and Expanding Prekindergarten in the Children First Reorganization
Report of the New York City Council Commission on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity – a blueprint for early education in New York City. This report developed in anticipation of new state education funding provides a plan for expanding Pre-K for three- and four-year-olds. The comprehensive vision provides cost estimates on every aspect of implementation from teacher salaries to facilities
Archive on Pre-K Implementation
The Prekindergarten Advocacy Handbook
A Parent Report Card: What Parents Really Think
Educating our Youngest Children: An Action Plan for a World Class Early Care and Education System in NYC
Universal Prekindergarten In Community School District 11
Issues in Collaborative Leadership for Universal Prekindergarten
A Guide to Cost Allocation Procedures: Implementing Strategies for Universal Pre-K
Implementing Universal Pre-K in New York City: Blended Funding and Other Financial Considerations
UPK Advisory Boards: Making a Difference in Early Care and Education
Implementing Strategies for Universal Prekindergarten: The Advisory Board's Role
Planning for Community-Based Early Childhood Education: A Guide for NYC's UPK Advisory Boards
A Directory of UPK Providers in New York City
Universal Pre-K: Frequently Asked Questions
New York State's Early Childhood Workforce: Challenges, Opportunities, & Next Steps
New Partnerships for UPK: Implementation Survey
Report of the NYC Council Commission on the Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE) Part II
Strengthening and Expanding Prekindergarten in the Children First Reorganization
- Funding and Financing
Advocates and policy makers are increasingly concerned in establishing what it costs to support high-quality early care and learning. CCI’s policy brief series takes a close look at the issue, providing program models and their associated costs, per program and per-child.
Early Care and Education - What it Costs Half Day
Early Care and Education - What it Costs Full Day
- Building a System
Proposal for a New York City Office of Early Care and Learning - CCI spent a year researching governance options for New York City to help promote more efficient use of resources, higher-quality services and better outcomes for children. The proposal provides a vision for a new approach to governance, including an early learning council which includes external stakeholders. A report on the think tank that led to the report highlights what some of the attendees learned, questions for further study and possible next steps.
The Best in the Nation: A Plan for Early Care and Education - Advocates want to make the state’s early care and education the Best in the Nation. This policy brief, created in 2007, provided an overview of what it would take. Several of the recommendations have already been adopted by state officials.
