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Examining Link Between Income and Placement of Students with Disabilities
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Federal law requires annual state reports on special education identification and educational placement and identification of school districts with disproportionate racial placements. Income status is not a factor when determining disproportionality. But…
New Hampshire Preschool Development Grant Program Performance Evaluation
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In 2019, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) awarded the state of New Hampshire (NH) a three-year Preschool Development Grant (PDG) Birth through Age 5 (B-5) to continue supporting a comprehensive and coordinated early childhood care and…
The MA Early Childhood Support Organization Initiative
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Many initiatives attempting to improve the quality of early education and care settings typically focus on teacher practice versus organizational capacity. The Massachusetts Early Childhood Support Organization initiative (MA ECSO) —a public-private…
Migrant Seasonal Head Start Study
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Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) provides early childhood education, social and support services to culturally and linguistically diverse migrant and seasonal farmworker families and their children. Since the last nationally representative study of…
Making the Most of a Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG)
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In late 2014, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care (EEC) was awarded a federal Preschool Expansion Grant (PEG) to expand high-quality early childhood education to more than 800 4-year-old children per year in five underserved…
Evaluation of the New York State Child Assistance Program
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Abt Global completed an evaluation of an important New York State welfare reform initiative involving child support enforcement, the Child Assistance Program (CAP). Unlike many other welfare reform efforts that emphasize mandatory behavioral…
Helping Promise Neighborhoods Institute Fulfill Its Promise
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The Promise Neighborhood program is a place-based initiative designed to improve the educational outcomes of children through linked, holistic and evidence-based cradle-to-career interventions. The program’s grantees provide a menu of services to the…
Evaluating CMS’s InCK Model For Kids with Complex Health Needs
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Improving healthcare quality while reducing costs is a goal Abt Global has been helping the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pursue for more than a decade through evaluations and more. CMS’s Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) payment and…
Descriptive and Analytical Career Pathways Project
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Over the last 30 years, adults in the United States with a high school education or less have experienced stagnating wages and relatively high unemployment, while those with postsecondary credentials enjoyed economic gains (Autor, 2015; Carnevale et al.,…
Do Apprenticeships Help Workers and Employers?
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) launched the American Apprenticeship Initiative (AAI) to expand registered apprenticeships in the U.S. into sectors with few apprenticeships, such as healthcare and information technology (IT), and for populations…