Who? To serve

What?To provide

How? To do it

April 23, 2015

CENTER for EDUCATION POLICY RESEARCH

The Most Pressing Questions in New Mexico’s Early Childhood Landscape

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Credit: Albuquerque Journal, Pat Vasquez-Cunningham, Aug. 7, 2008

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Colleen Heild, Albuquerque Journal, March 2, 2014 

Colleen Heild, Albuquerque Journal, March 9, 2014 

Rick Nathanson, Albuquerque Journal, April 6, 2014 

New Mexico’s Early Childhood Care and Education System

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5 Yrs. & Older

4 Yrs. Old

3 Yrs. Old

2 Yrs. Old

1 Yrs. Old

Birth To 1Prenatal

Home Visiting

IDEA Part CEarly Intervention – NM FIT Program

Child Care

Early Head Start

K‐Three Plus, Early Reading Initiative, Education Reforms 

Across Grades 1, 2, and 3. 

IDEA Part BEarly Childhood Special Education

Head Start

NM PreK

Who? 

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• Universal and voluntary

• To avoid stigma

• New babies are hard!

Who?

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• 2,224 Families Served by Home Visiting

• 84,000 Children in NM,  Birth to 3

Number of Clients/Children By Program and Grade FY14 & SY 2013‐14

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5,000

10,000

15,000

20,000

25,000

30,000

7Sources: Legislative Finance Committee, January 2014, Post Session Review, Estimated Number of Clients FY14; PED Dashboard, accessed 4/20/2015.

What?

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• New FOCUS Tiered Quality Rating and Improvement System (TQRIS)

• Child Care’s Origins

• Learning Through Play

How?

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• Large‐scale increases from the permanent fund

Or

• Gradual annual increases through the state appropriations process

Both are proposals to increase funding!

Annual Appropriations to Early Childhood Programs, in millions

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Source: LFC Post-Session Reviews. Includes home visiting, FIT, child care assistance, PreK, and K-3 Plus

$0

$50

$100

$150

$200

$250

FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16

We Agree More Than We Disagree

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We are challenged by the Who?What?and How? of early childhood policy, but we have decided to act, which is more than half the battle.

Hailey HeinzCenter for Education Policy Research

University of New Mexicocepr.unm.edu

hailey57@unm.edu

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