Early Learning in Pennsylvania Today State of the State: Early Learning in Pennsylvania Today

Early Learning in Pennsylvania Today

State of the State:Early Learning in

Pennsylvania Today


Access to quality early education for Pennsylvania’s young children can:

• Reduce public costs for special education, public assistance, prisons and health care.

– Pew Center on the States: high-quality pre-kindergarten programs can decrease special education placements by 50%.

– Fight Crime: Invest in Kids: high quality early learning could cut 25% or more of the costs of corrections in PA.

– Harvard, Columbia: children who have access to quality early education from birth have more resilience against toxic stress and better health outcomes and behaviors as young adults


• Facilitate job growth.– America’s Edge: Every dollar spent on early

education generates $1.06 dollars in the local economy.

– America’s Edge: For every 10 jobs created in early childhood education sector, three more jobs are created outside early childhood education.

– Bartik: Parents with access to reliable, affordable early childhood education are more likely to be employed, have less absenteeism, and can earn up to 30% more over the course of their lifetimes because they are able to stay in the workforce


• Effectively prepare students for new workforce demands. – Georgetown: 63% of jobs in the next decade will

require some post-secondary education. – Perry Preschool & Abecedarian: children receiving

high quality early education are more likely to be prepared for and do better in school; graduate high school; attend college or job training; and have higher earnings.


Profile of young children in PA

There are 729,538 children under age five living in Pennsylvania. Of those:•58% live in economically at-risk families earning up to 300% of the federal poverty level; and•16% have mothers with less than a high school education.


2010-2011 - Children served

• 36% of children under age five served in quality early education programs– 20.4% of infants and

toddlers served– 52.4% of preschoolers

served


Pennsylvania's approach

• Ensuring quality early childhood education programs

• Providing families with a variety of early learning choices

• Embracing accountability for results

VISION: Every child enter kindergarten ready to succeed


Ensuring quality early childhood education programs

• Coordinated early childhood programs

• Effective teachers and leaders

• Quality classrooms and instruction

• Quality program standards

• Alignment with K-12 education

• Continuous quality improvement


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.


OCDEL programs

• Child Care Certification• Child Care Works• Children’s Trust Fund• Early Head Start (grantee)

• Early Intervention, birth- five

• Full-Day Kindergarten• Head Start Supplemental

Assistance Program

• Keystone STARS/ PA Early Learning Keys to Quality

• Parent-Child Home Program

• Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts

• Nurse-Family Partnership• Public-private

partnerships


Ensuring quality ECE programs: 2010-11 highlights • Expanded ECE resources

available on the Standards Aligned System (SAS) portal and created Early Learning Professional Learning Community (PLC).

• 57 ECE Program-to-Program Articulation agreements developed among 2- and 4- year higher education institutions.

• In 2010-2011, 264 early education professionals earned their Director Credential, 11% more than in 2009-2010.

• 183 school and early education leaders participated in one of eight Early Childhood Executive Leadership Institutes around the Commonwealth, nearly twice as many as participated in 2009-2010.


Ensuring quality ECE programs: 2010-11 highlights, cont’d • Children in a Pennsylvania

Pre-K Counts classroom with a lead teacher who holds a Teacher Certification are approximately 50% more likely to achieve greater than average gains in language and literacy, math, and personal and social development than children whose lead teacher does not hold a certificate.

• Child care providers receiving Keystone STARS Technical Assistance were 2.2 times more likely to advance a STAR level than those who did not receive help.


Providing families with a variety of early learning options• Meeting the diverse

needs of families• Educating families

about early learning options

• Engaging families in their children’s early learning


Providing families with ECE options: 2010-11 highlights• During 2009-2011, in

partnership with 63 early care and education sites, serving approximately 3,500 children, 29 out of 33 Preschool Early Intervention programs participated in Preschool Early Intervention Positive Behavior Support Program for Inclusion.

• Nearly 180,000 materials were distributed to families through early childhood education programs, libraries and Community Engagement Groups (now LEARN teams) in 2010-2011.


Providing families with ECE options: 2010-11 highlights, cont’d• More than 38,600

individuals submitted applications for Child Care Works online through COMPASS in 2010-2011, 72% more than in 2009-2010.

• More than 93% of respondents to the OCDEL family survey indicated that they have used information about their child’s performance to make changes in how they teach their child and to support their child’s learning and development at home.


Embracing accountability for results• 2010-2011 OCDEL

Reach and Risk Report includes data by school district for the first time.

• Environment Rating Scale (ERS) Assessor reliability average: 93%

• STARS Designator Reliability: agreed on 97% of standards

• Pennsylvania is the only state that can link data across all ECE programs at the child and program site levels as defined by the Early Childhood Data Collaborative.


As a result of your work…


Children making progress, entering school ready to succeed


More quality early learning choices are available to children and families


More quality choices for families


More quality choices for families


Continuous quality improvement among ECE programs and professionals


Continuous quality improvement


Seven year trend of increasing quality in ECE classrooms

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


Higher classroom quality/ more children proficient


Vision for the future

• Facilitate quality improvement in early childhood programs in high-risk communities by:– piloting enhanced case management and TA for Keystone

STARS programs in high-risk communities to help them increase their STAR level.

– streamlining and expanding eligibility for Keystone STARS quality improvement initiative for Head Start and other early learning provider types as possible.

• Fully integrate PA Early Learning Standards into the Standards Aligned System


Vision, cont’d

• Develop and implement Early Learning Outcomes Reporting strategy– Programs will have expanded options for choosing an authentic

assessment tool for reporting child outcomes

• Pilot Family Engagement Project – Helping at-risk communities coordinate family supports and

create local partnerships

• Enhance the early childhood workforce data system– Linking early childhood instructor and professional development

registries– Coordinating with PDE teacher certification and PA Key educator

registries


Governor’s Budget Proposal for 2012-13

• Economy continues to be in recovery• Need a budget which is both fiscally responsible

and provides vital services for children and families

• Governor’s commitment: No tax increase



• No longer looking at $4.2 billion state budget deficit

• Projected $700 million shortfall in 2011-12

• Providers experiencing increased costs

• Families experiencing increased need



Proposed Budget 2012-13• Total Budget

Amount $27.14 billion • 33 line items eliminated• Total reduction of $20 million (.1%)


Governor’s Budget Proposal for 2012-13Serve additional families in:• Early Intervention – Expanding to reach 85,500

children (35,300 infants and toddlers and 50,200 preschoolers) by adding 1,500 preschoolers.


Governor’s Budget Proposal for 2012-13Sustain progress in:• Head Start Supplemental – Sustaining services to

reach approximately 4,930 children.*• Keystone STARS – Sustaining services to more than

168,200 children and making it possible for programs to achieve higher STAR levels.

• Nurse-Family Partnership – Sustaining to reach more than 5,125 children and families.

• Parent-Child Home Program – Sustaining services to reach more than 190 children and families.

• Pennsylvania Pre-K Counts – Sustaining services to reach approximately 11,380 children.

* Number of children served in 2012-2013 dependent upon completion of competitive grant process


Governor’s Budget Proposal for 2012-13 Reduce services for children in:• Child Care Works Subsidized Child Care

Program – Serving nearly 130,400 children (monthly average), a reduction of approximately 365 children.


Office of Child Development and Early Learning FY 2012-13

FY 2011-12* FY 2012-13 ChangeKeystone STARS/Keys to QualityChild Care Services - State Funds $23,961 $23,160 ($801)Child Care Services - Federal Funds $35,659 $35,343 ($316)Total Funds $59,620 $58,503 ($1,117)Child Care Works (CCW)Child Care Services - State Funds $130,304 $122,209 ($8,095)Child Care Services - Federal Funds $202,970 $187,186 ($15,784)Child Care Assistance - State Funds $164,435 $156,728 ($7,707)Child Care Assistance - Federal Funds $197,197 $192,071 ($5,126)Total State CCW and STARS $318,700 $302,097 ($16,603)Total Federal CCS and STARS $435,826 $414,600 ($21,226)Total ALL funds $754,526 $716,697 ($37,829)Early Intervention Early Intervention Birth - 3State Funds $106,429 $119,788 $13,359 Federal Funds $75,769 $70,240 ($5,529)Total Funds $182,198 $190,028 $7,830 Early Intervention 3-5State Funds $197,816 $206,173 $8,357 Federal Funds $60,611 $60,909 $298 Total Funds $258,427 $267,082 $8,655 Total Birth - 5 EI Funds $440,625 $457,110 $16,485 Parent Child Home ProgramState Funds $0 $0 $0 Federal Funds $489 $489 $0 State only Funded ProgramsPennsylvania Pre-K Counts $80,184 $78,645 ($1,539)Head Start Supplemental $35,414 $35,414 $0 Nurse Family Partnership (Includes Health Care Reform Home Visiting)

State Funds $11,978 $11,978 $0

Federal Funds $7,720 $7,720 $0

Total Funds $19,698 $19,698 $0 * Represents Post Freeze Amounts

OCDEL programs can be found in the Governor's Executive Budget on pages: DPW: E.36.7, E.36.8, E.36.35, E36.36, E36.41 PDE: E15.4, E15.10, E15.11, E15.12, E15.13, E15.20

Governor's Proposed Budget


Children served, 2010-11, est. 2011-12 and Governor’s proposed 2012-13

Program FY 10-11 FY 11-12 1 FY 12-13 1 Program FY 10-11 FY 11-12 1 FY 12-13 1

Child Care Works Head StartTANF 37,753 35,940 35,940 1 Total Head Start in PA 37,325 37,325 1 37,325 1

Former TANF 32,753 32,440 32,440 1

Head Start Supplemental Assistance Program 5,465 4,929 4,929 1

Low Income 63,575 62,680 62,315 Keystone STARS 168,230 168,230 1 168,230 1

TOTAL (monthly average) 134,081 131,060 130,380 Nurse-Family Partnership 5,126 5,126 1 5,126 1

Early Intervention PA Pre-K Counts 11,500 11,380 1 11,380 1

Birth to 3 Program 33,007 35,300 35,300 1 Parent-Child Home Pgm 1,297 191 191 1

3 to 5 Program 47,114 48,707 50,200 1

1 Fiscal Year End Goal or Projection

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