Meeting the Need, Accepting the Challenge: Developing Quality Early Education Facilities for Connecticut
Date Published: 04/04/2005
Author: David Wash, Carl Sussman & Amy Gillman
Publisher: LISC
Connecticut recognizes the important role that early education plays in achieving higher educational performance, building a skilled workforce and sustaining a healthy economy. To prepare our young citizens for success in school and life, Connecticut is planning to improve the early education system and make it available to more children. This requires an investment in the physical facilities children need to learn and grow.
LISC’s Children’s Investment Partnership studied six years of data on Connecticut’s two preschool construction programs - the Department of Education’s School Construction Grant Program and the Tax-Exempt Financing Program of the Child Care Facilities Loan Fund, administered by the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority (CHEFA), with the Department of Social Services (DSS). This report contains a series of recommendations for how the state can further strengthen these financing programs as it expands its early education system by providing facility expansion funds to high quality programs; offering technical assistance on facilities development and design; and ensuring that state-funded facilities continue to provide good outcomes for children over time.
Topics: Education, Children & Youth, --Child Care
Type: Topical report