IDENTIFYING WAYS FOR THE MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE TO SUPPORT CHILDREN'S STABLE ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY EARLY EDUCATION AND CARE THROUGH USE OF SUBSIDIES

儿童保育发展整体补助金（CCDBG）实施研究和评估规划补助金为马萨诸塞州早期教育和护理部（EEC）提供了更好地了解当前补贴制度如何影响儿童参与高质量早期教育和护理的稳定性的机会，并确定和评估提高稳定性的成本效益方法。通过对正在进行的研究的回顾和对现有数据的探索性分析以及对家庭的访谈，EEC将确定在获得补贴早期教育和护理方面表现出更大不稳定性的家庭和儿童的子群体，并将努力了解不稳定和不公平获得高质量早期教育的驱动因素。然后，这笔赠款将支持规划评估可能的政策变化，以增加公平获取机会，如果提供，可以通过第二阶段提供资金。

The Childcare Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Implementation Research and Evaluation Planning Grant offers the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) opportunities to better understand how aspects of the current subsidy system shape the stability of children's participation in high quality early education and care, and to identify and evaluate cost-effective ways to improve stability. Through a review of ongoing research and exploratory analysis of existing data as well as interviews with families, EEC will identify subgroups of families and children who demonstrate greater instability in access to subsidized early education and care, and will work to understand the drivers of instability and inequitable access to high quality early education. The grant will then support the planning of an evaluation of potential policy changes to increase equitable access, which could be funded through Phase II, if offered.