October 20, 2016      4:55 PM
Children at Risk calls for greater accountability for child care subsidy dollars
Meantime, TEA and TWC have carved out another $7.5 million to explore the addition of private-public partnerships in early childhood education
Children at Risk rolled out the first of two reports on
pre-kindergarten to begin to lay the groundwork for greater accountability of
state child care subsidies.
Funding for early childhood is spread across three agencies
in Texas state government: Texas Education Agency, Texas Workforce
Commission and Department of Family and Protective
Services. Much of the focus of lawmakers last session was quality pre-k
in Texas public schools, but the state spends almost three times as much money
on child care subsidies.
The theme of this week’s discussion at a Texas
Association of Business workshop during the Children at Risk news
conference was a push for greater agency coordination around both education
data and quality initiatives within agency programs.
By Kimberly Reeves
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