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Early Childhood Education for the Future:
The Creative Use of Public-Private Partnerships to Provide Cost-Effective, High Quality School
Readiness Programs
March 15, 2013
Cindy Zumwalt, Division AdministratorRhonda Clark, Principal ConsultantDivision of Early ChildhoodIllinois State Board of Education
Importance of Early Childhood Education
Challenges Opportunities Ensuring High-Quality
Preschool Programs
Presentation Overview
Two-thirds of the achievement gap is already there when children walk in the door to kindergarten
Early childhood interventions offer the highest return on investment of any strategy to address the achievement gap
Why Early Childhood Education?
Early Childhood Education is an
efficient and effective
investment for economic and
workforce development.
The earlier the investment, the
greater the return on investment.
Professor James J Heckman, Nobel Laureate in
Economics at the University of Chicago
FY 09 FY 10 FY 11 FY 12 FY 13
Funding $380m $342m $342m $325m $300m
PFA 3-5 95,123 91,910 83,997 78,607 73,883*
Impact of Reductions in the Early Childhood Block Grant
*estimated
Funding
Common Core State Standards
Provide teachers and parents with a common understanding of what students are expected to learn
Knowledge and skills students should have within their K–12 education careers
Potential impact on early childhood education programs
Mapping out the route to kindergarten readiness for children◦ Birth to Three Early Learning Guidelines - New◦ Three to Five Early Learning and Development
Standards - Revised Developing resources and trainings for the
entire field to better understand what children should know and be able to do at different ages/stages
Illinois Early Learning Standards
Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge Illinois
Illinois was awarded $34.2 million in Phase 2 of the RTT-ELC on 12-31-12
Illinois is one of only 14 states with ELC grant
Grant funding is for 4 years, through 2016
Help Illinois to connect the children most at risk of school failure with the high-quality early learning programs they need
Deepening the integration of state supports to create a unified framework for all early learning and development programs.◦ Preschool for All/Prevention Initiative
◦ Child Care
◦ Head Start/Early Head Start
Connecting our most at-risk children with the supports and services they need
Increasing program quality: from adequate to good and from good to great
3 Strategic Reform Priorities
To learn more about KIDS:
illinoiskids.org
Comprehensive Developmental Screening
Early Childhood Certified Teachers
Standards-Aligned Research-Based Curriculum
Ongoing Authentic Assessment
Intentional Teaching
Family Education Community
Collaboration Reflective Practice
Ensuring High-Quality Preschool Programs
Aligned with Common Core Standards and Head Start frame work
Ready to implement fall FY14
Illinois Early Learning and Development Standards
Three year rotation Program
Improvement Plan Professional
Development Offerings
Coaching Model
Program Monitoring
Contact InformationIllinois State Board of Education
Division of Early Childhood earlychi@isbe.net
http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/217-524-4835
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