Summary of resources on key policy initiatives.

• Resource: MA Governor’s FY2025 Budget fact sheet (March 2024)

• Resource: Commonwealth Cares For Children (C3) Operations Grants (Updated February 2024)

• Fact Sheet: High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Opening the Books on its True Costs (February 2024)

• Resource: Affordable and Accessible High Quality Early Education and Care Act (S.2697) (March 2024)

• Fact Sheet: Affordable and Accessible High Quality Early Education and Care Act (S.2697) (Mar 2024)

• Resource: Written Testimony Guide (January 2024)

• Fact Sheet: Child Care Advocacy Guide (August 2023)

• Fact Sheet: Child Care is Gender Justice: Pass the Common Start Legislation (Updated March 2023)

• Fact Sheet: Affordable and Accessible High Quality Early Education and Care H.489/S.301 (Published February 2023; UPDATED April 2023)

• Fact Sheet: Affordable, Accessible Child Care is Foundational to Racial Justice (Published February 2023)

• Fact Sheet: Commonwealth Cares For Children (C3) Operations Grants: Critical to Sustaining and Growing the Capacity of Massachusetts’ Early Education and Care Sector (Published February 2023)

• Fact Sheet: Massachusetts' 2021-2022 Legislative Session: What Did it Deliver for Early Education and Care? (Published August 2022)

• Fact Sheet: Massachusetts' FY23 Budget: What It Means for Early Education and Care (Published August 2022)

• Fact Sheet: An Act to Expand Access to High-Quality, Affordable Early Education and Care seeks to address current access, affordability, and workforce challenges in Massachusetts’ early education and care sector (Published Summer 2022)

• Fact Sheet: Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Stabilization Grant Program: Critical for Sustaining the Capacity of MA’s Early Ed and Care Sector (Published Spring 2022)

• Resource: Child Care is Health Justice: Ensuring Access to High Quality Early Education and Care Is Key to Advancing Health Equity (Published August 2022)

• Resource: Child Care is Education Equity: The Common Start Legislation (Published Spring 2022)

Case studies of Neighborhood Villages programs and and reports from the field.

• Case Study: Statewide Implementation of COVID Testing for the Massachusetts Early Education and Care Sector (Published December 2022)

• Field Report: Current Landscape of Early Education and Care Center-based Programs 2022 (Published 2022)

• Field Report: Status of Hiring for and Retention of the MA Early Education Workforce (Published May 2021)

• Field Report: A Comprehensive COVID-19 Testing System for the Massachusetts Early Education and Care and Out-of-School-Time Sector (Published November 2020)

• Field Report: School-Age Learning Pods: Identified Challenges and Opportunities (Published Fall 2020)

• Field Report: Results of Massachusetts Early Education Workforce Survey (Published Fall 2020)

• Field Report: Results from Survey of Massachusetts Early Education Providers Reliant on Parent-Paid Tuition Fees (Published June 2020)

• Research Report: Public Funding for Early Childhood Education Providers: Comparing Direct-to-Provider Grants to Child Care Financial Assistance Reimbursement (published April 224)

• Research Report: High-Quality Early Childhood Education: Opening the Books on its True Costs (published February 2024)

• Policy Brief: Operations Grants: Critical to Sustaining and Growing the Capacity of Massachusetts’ Early Education and Care Sector (Published February 2023)

• Policy Paper: Overview of the Massachusetts Commonwealth Cares for Children (C3) Stabilization Grant Program