"This report summarizes the work of a Pennsylvania Task Force charged with examining the issue of child care subsidy rates. As part of this effort, provider forums were held across the state. Both the forums and Task Force deliberations underscored concerns that basing child care reimbursement on the price of care is a fundamentally flawed approach. To this end, the Task Force elected to expand their charge. In addition to making recommendations about how the current child care reimbursement rate system -- based on market rates -- could be improved, the report also recommends policies aimed at linking rate ceilings to quality (via rate adjustments, rather than market rate survey data) and offering quality improvement grants that can supplement child care reimbursement rates and parent fees."
-- "What's New", the Alliance on Early Childhood Finance
Louise Stoney, Pennsylvania BUILD Initiative, June, 2004
See this resource at
http://www.pde.state.pa.us/early_childhood/lib/early_childhood/RatePolicyReport--FINAL_6.17.04.pdf
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