Federal Funding and Early Learning Systems Building: Reaching for Opportunities

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Federal Funding andEarly Learning
SystemsBuilding Reaching for Opportunities

• Charles Bruner, Build Research and Evaluation
  Director
• Build Annual Conference
• October, 2009

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Key Issues for Systems Building

• The Administrations Commitment to Young Children
• Existing Federal Funding Sources for Early
  Childhood
• New and Proposed Funding
• Opportunities for State Action and Integration

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The Administrations Commitment to Young Children

• Candidate Obamas Pledge 10 Billion annually in
  increased funding for young children, including
  child care, preschool, home visiting, Early Head
  Start, special education, and Promise
  Neighborhoods

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Existing Federal Funding Sources for Young
Children

• 30 Major Funding Sources
• 91.5 Billion in 2008
• Health, Mental Health, Nutrition (6) -- 18.7
  billion
• Early Learning (10) 17.8 billion
• Family Support/Parent Nurturing (11) 2.8 billion
• Family Economic Security (8) 46.6 billion
• Special Needs (7) 5.6 billion

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New and Proposed Federal Funding

• ARRA Funding (2.5 billion annually)
• Head Start and Early Head Start
• CCDBG
• Part C Early Intervention
• Part B Preschool
• CHIPRA Funding and FMAP
• CHIPRA (circa 7 billion annual increase)
• FMAP (circa 80 billion over two years)
• Health Care Reform (Proposed)
• Home Visiting (circa 1 billion annually)
• Other Prevention/Demonstration Programs
  (significant)
• Challenge Grants (Proposed)
• Two-tiered Competitive Grants (potentially circa
  1 billion annually)

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Federal Framing of Proposed Investments

• Evidenced-Based Home Visiting and Challenge
  Grants as Bookends of Federal Governments View
  of Early Childhood System

Are there enough well-kept volumes in between?
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Opportunities and Challenges

• Weave Together Different Funding Sources and
  Planning Structures
• Take Advantage of New Opportunities, Including
  Early Childhood Advisory Councils
• Make the Case for Expanded Federal Investments

Cross- Species Co-Existence
Within Species Distinctions
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The Importance of Continued Federal Response to
the State Fiscal Crisis

• Reauthorization of FMAP and State Fiscal
  Stabilization Funding to Avoid State Cliffs

Keeping the Lions at Bay
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Securing Opportunities for Young Children

• A Matter of State as Well as Federal Leadership

For the Benefit of the Young
Eye on the Goal