Several of South Carolina’s leading children’s advocacy organizations released the 2017 Early Childhood Common Agenda on Feb. 2—urging state leaders to support working families and improve access to high-quality preschool and child care, to pass new tax credits for families,…
How can educators, health leaders and communities help more parents learn to work with their children to prepare them to be healthy, and for school and life? That was a key question on Day 2 of ICS’s fourth annual Early…
By Megan Carolan, Associate Director for Policy Research Early childhood educators and child care providers face low wages that hurt the future of the early childhood field, according to a new report from the Center for the Study of Child…
The final sessions of the Third Annual Conference of the Early Childhood Social Impact Performance Advisors focused on provisions that could be made in federal law and in developing Pay for Success projects to enable better services for young children.…
The second day of the Third Annual Conference of the Early Childhood Social Impact Performance Advisors in Denver featured an array of experts on exploring feasibility, evaluation and other aspects of using Pay for Success to start or expand early…
Advocates for young children gathered from across the nation starting June 22 in Denver for the nation’s largest conference on using Pay for Success (PFS) to expand early childhood programs. The Third Annual Conference of the Early Childhood Social Impact…
Notes from a Fellow: This is the inaugural post from Jostin Grimes, a summer fellow with ICS through the Southern Education Leadership Initiative. Throughout the summer, Jostin will share reflections on his experience at ICS, thoughts on the field, and updates on…
Megan Carolan (Associate Director for Policy Research) and Bryan Boroughs (General Counsel and Director of Legislative Affairs) Results were released in mid-May from the Chicago Pay for Success (PFS) project which expands the city’s Child Parent Center (CPC) early education…
Mary Garvey, Associate Director, Pay for Success Financing Often thought of as a modern day civil rights issue, educational disparity in the United States is in actuality a remnant of an era in which racism was codified by law. As…
By Megan Carolan, Associate Director for Policy Research States demonstrated a commitment to providing education to young children in the 2014-2015 budget year, according to a new report from the Education Commission of the States. Their annual funding report, which…