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GAO-16-775R 1 (2016-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaakfm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAOU.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Washington, DC 20548 September 14, 2016 The Honorable Lamar Alexander Chairman Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions United States Senate The Honorable John Kline Chairman Committee on Education and the Workforce House of Representatives Child Care: Information on Integrating Early Care and Education Funding Every year millions of children under the age of 5 participate in federal and state early care and education programs. For fiscal years 2010 to 2015, Congress appropriated almost $48 billion to Head Start and over $31 billion to the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), the two largest sources of federal funding for early care and education. The Head Start program is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) through about 1,800 grants to groups who deliver education, nutrition, health, and other social services to approximately 1 million children in poverty from birth to age 5 each year. Through Head Start, HHS funds two programs-Head Start, which provides early care and education to 3- and 4- year-olds, and Early Head Start, which serves pregnant women and children from birth up to age 3. CCDF funding is provided through a block grant to states and tribes to, among other things, help low-income, working families pay for child care (for children from birth to 12) so that parents can work, pursue an education, or attend job training. Additionally, states spend about $5.6 billion annually on state-funded prekindergarten (Pre-K) programs.1 To better leverage funds, expand services, and make quality improvements, many providers delivering these early care and education services are forming partnerships with other providers or combining funds from federal and other sources. For example, in calendar year 2012, the most recent year for which data are available, over 40 percent of child care centers had some funding from Head Start or public Pre-K or both.2 To support early care and education partnerships, Congress appropriated just over $1.1 billion in recent years ($500 million in fiscal year 2014 and $635 million in fiscal year 2016) for HHS's proposal to expand the number and 1The National Institute for Early Education Research, Rutgers Graduate School of Education, The State of Preschool 2014; State Preschool Yearbook (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University, 2015). 2U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, National Survey of Early Care and Education Project Team, Characteristics of Center-based Early Care and Education Programs: Initial Findings from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE),, OPRE Report #2014-73a (Washington DC: 2014). Available at http://www.acffhhs.gov/programs/opre/research/project/national-survey-of-early-care-and-education-nsece-201 0- 2014. GAO-16-775R Child Care Page 1

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