Bridging Gaps: Implementing Public-Private Partnerships to Strengthen Early Education

The US Child-Care System Is in Crisis
Child care supports every industry in our nation, but the current model simply isn't working. Child-care businesses are failing, early childhood professionals are not paid living wages, and expenses are rising. The primary funding source is families, but families cannot afford the true cost of child care. Does this mean that all early childhood programs must fold into the public school system? Will private child care soon be extinct?

In Bridging Gaps: Implementing Public-Private Partnerships to Strengthen Early Education, author Sarah Taylor Vanover dispels the myths and explains the opportunities of a mixed-delivery system. Discover the benefits and challenges of child-care partnerships such as Early Head Start with private and family child-care settings and private child-care programs with state-funded preschools. Explore how to address credentialing, professional development, and implementing IDEA, and learn the differences between mixed delivery and universal pre-K.

Sarah Taylor Vanover, EdD, has worked in the field of early childhood education for more than twenty-four years, serving as a teacher, director, trainer, and college professor. She also served as the director for the Division of Child Care in Kentucky, supervising Child Care and Development Block Grant funding and creating child-care policy. She is currently the policy and research director for Kentucky Youth Advocates, where she focuses on early childhood education policy and research on positive outcomes for young children.