A comprehensive analysis of existing state and local dedicated revenue streams to support early care and education.

CLASP has worked directly on implementation of the child care reauthorization with advocates and/or agencies in more than 40 states since January 2015. This report draws on our work and the lessons of others to capture the experience of states.

Read about three instructional practices and three policies that are indispensable to high-quality teaching and learning in pre-K, according to program leaders and researchers across the country.

Ensure every child is ready to succeed in school and life. Make early learning a top priority in the 2018 elections.   

Multi-state study of the effects of the current immigration climate on young children under the age of 8.  

This  report  documents  how  the  current  immigration  context  is  affecting  our  nation’s  youngest  children,  under  age  eight,  based  on  interviews  and  focus  groups  in  2017  with  more  than  150  early  childhood  educators  and  parents  in  six  states—California,  Georgia, Illinois,  New  Mexico,  North  Carolina,  and  Pennsylvania.  

How greater access to high-quality child care in Louisiana can help improve military readiness.

Providing at-risk kids with high-quality early learning programs can reduce crime and the resulting costs. Pennsylvania could realize over $150 million in societal benefits by increasing access to high-quality pre-k programs.

Parental substance abuse impedes children’s future citizen readiness. Early childhood care and education programs are powerful tools in battling the opioid epidemic in Tennessee.