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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