MN Early Childhood Care & Education
A joint effort by Minnesota foundations to create a comprehensive business plan
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All public dollars linked to common definition of quality
Improve the supply and variety of quality child care settings and build capacity and mechanisms within communities to define, interpret and rate quality of care. Remove class and cultural biases from quality ratings and ensure that capacity is built, not lost, in communities of color
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Assess 100% of children entering kindergarten
To improve accountability toward school readiness
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Assessment system aimed at supporting a child's full development potential
to create an accountability system that drives the right results based on outcomes, not inputs
Community scholarships
Rather than funding programs, fund communities to ensure that children's and families needs are being met with customized care and to leverage local resources
Comprehensive support for parents; upgrade aging housing
safer, more healthy housing; less unemployment; less poverty; better mental health; better health
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Create a braided fund for quality early learning
Build on existing diverse ECE delivery system. Link funding streams to common quality standards at state level. Include mix of direct funding to programs & portable funding that follows the child.
Cultural identification and awareness as a sixth readiness domain
To formally recognize positive cultural identification as a protective factor for children and to compel the system to react with appropriate assessments, training, child care opportunities
Early Childhood Resource Hubs
Facilitate coordination and collaboration at the local level between parents, ECE providers, programs that offer family supports or health services, and K-12 schools.
Empower parents
to empower parents as the responsive first and important educators of their children; this is a mind set change that views parents as those having the greatest influence on their children
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Establish an Office of Early Learning
Coordinate early childhood programs at the state level. Provide accountability and responsibility for ECE programs in MDE, DHS and MDH.