Allyx Schiavone
CEO of Friends Center | Chair of Child Care for CT Friends Center for Children New Haven, CT
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- The Century Foundation | Trust for Learning
Early childhood education is the most segregated level of education in the United States, but a new series of reports by The Century Foundation, in partnership with Trust for Learning, sheds light on models reversing this trend.
The series is part of a research project showcasing how early childhood programs can combine public and private funding to serve diverse groups of children, and how policymakers can build upon their work.
Two of the 20 programs spotlighted in the report are members of the Trust’s Ideal Learning Head Start Network: Early Childhood at Manny Cantor Center in New York, NY, and Friends Center for Children in New Haven, CT. These programs bring together young children from diverse backgrounds in shared classrooms by integrating multiple revenue sources.
Program profiles
The research project also includes two narrative profiles of early childhood programs: Mixing Early Head Start and Private-Pay Tuition at a Wisconsin Early Childhood Program and How a Colorado Early Learning Center Serves a Diverse Group of Families.
The first profile highlights a mixed-income funding model, while the second provides an example of how campus child care centers can promote diverse early learning settings that benefit children and families from across the socio-economic spectrum.
