Bainum Family Foundation supports Evaluation of the Office of the State Superintendent of Education's Quality Improvement Network to Improve Early Learning across Washington, D.C.

CECEI has received a grant from the Bainum Family Foundation to support the evaluation of the Office of the State Superintendent of Education Quality Improvement Network initiative. This implementation study will examine how a Early Head Start Child Care partnership is being realized in the District of Columbia.

The Washington, D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) was recently awarded a five-year Early Head Start (EHS) Child Care (CC) Partnership grant to improve the quality and quantity of infant/toddler child care slots in the city via the development of a Quality Improvement Network (QIN). The goal of the QIN is to improve the quality of the 3,300 subsidy infant/toddler slots that OSSE already supports, and to add 1,000 new high-quality child care slots to the pool.