Public OEC Early Learning Plan with Timeline
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- Convene working group and subcommittee
- Conduct landscape analysis to understand spots and needs of unified system
- Refine existing program administration
- Increase access via local leads strategy
- Conduct business model and tax credit pilots
- Revise licensing to leverage health and safety and de-couple quality from rules
2024 Milestones
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✔️ Subcomittee commences work
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Updates to CCDF subsidy go live
- Required work hour shift from 30 to 20 hours
- Eligibility will be beased on state median income, updated annually
- Family co-payments waived for families at or below 75% of state's median income
- Removal of lifetime limit on child care assistance
- Unified app for ABC and CCDF programs
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Contracted seats pilot launches
Plan for paying CCDF subsidy on enrollment finalized
Additional CCDF subsidy updates go live
- Presumptive eligibility for families
- Provisional eligibility for providers
- Job search
- Rate changes
2025 Milestones
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Begin to pay CCDF subsidy on enrollment
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TriShare Pilots established
2026 Milestones
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- Current Focus
- Future Work
- Develop a unified definition and/or standards for quality that leads to kindergarten readiness
- Implement initial pilots of CLASS and synthesize lessons learned for scaling and future work
- Revising QRIS to reflect ADE vision for quality ECE
- Shift existing resources toward implementing quality vision
- Update curriculum list and develop strategy to incentivize adoption of high-quality curricula
2024 Milestones
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✔️ Cohort 1 local leads conducted the first Child Count
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- ✔️ Cohort 1 local leads created local plans for 2024-2025
- ✔️ Cohort 2 local leads selected and began work
- ✔️ Local early childhood educators participated in initial CLASS trainings to grow local expertise on the gorund
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CLASS Pilot: Phase 1 launches
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- Determine timeline for updating Better Beginnings
- Evaluate current contracts to ensure alignment to vision for quality
- Establish a process for managing the remaining/existing contracts to ensure outcomes
2025 Milestones
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- Share initial learnings and data from Phase 1 of CLASS Pilot
- CLASS Pilot: Phase 2 launches
- Process for updating the approved curriculum list begins
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- Determine any updates to Better Beginnings, informed by CLASS Pilot learnings
- Ensure funding is aligned for all contracts by 2025-2026 contract cycle
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- Begin implementing updated Better Beginnings Learning Year
- Updated approved curriculum list available along with supports and incentives for adoption
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2026 Milestones
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Close Better Beginnings Learning Year
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Launch updated Better Beginnings year 1
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- Past Achievements
- Current Focus
- Future Work
- Aligning ECE team to "functions, not funding streams" model
- Successfully launch the local leads model statewide
- Continue to refine the state's approach to support these state-local partnerships
- Support local leads to play a bigger role in access and quality
- Adopt and revise internal and external processes for licensing
- Ensure all publicly-funded programs adhere to academic approval
- Expand the early childhood workforce through continued pipeline development
- Adopting and revising processes for ADE
- Developing a clear set of budgets to guide decision making for FFY 25
2024 Milestones
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- All publicly-funded providers begin participating in academic approval
- The subcommittee finalizes the strategic plan
- Office of Early Childhood central office staff moves to one physical location
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- Local Leads: Cohort 3 selected, leading to every county in the state with a local lead
- Cohort 1 & 2 conduct Child Count
- External review of licensing takes places
2025 Milestones
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Licensing revisions drafted
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- Cohort 3 conducts Child Count; state has insight into entire state's access levels
- All local leads create local plans for the 2025-2026 year
- Licensing revisions brought for approval to board
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Public-facing guidance on licensing available for providers
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All local leads conduct statewide Child Count
2026 Milestones
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All local leads create local plans for 2026-2027 year
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All local leads conduct statewide Child Count
- Past Achievements
- Current Focus
- Future Work
Successfully transition and update systems
2024 Milestones
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IT systems ready for the CCDF changes to take place
2025 Milestones
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IT systems updated
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2026 Milestones
- Past Achievements
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- Future Work
- Convene working group and subcommittee
- Assess communication needs
- Build initial comms plan for new office
2024 Milestones
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✔️ OEC hosted Town Halls around the state for feedback and input
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- OEC hosts Town Halls around the state for feedback and input
- Communicate all CCDF shifts and updated IT systems
2025 Milestones
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Annual report released that includes data on access to quality care and education
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2026 Milestones
- Past Achievements
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- Future Work