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Early Education and Care System Proposal Updates: ARRA Funding Allocation

This update covers ARRA investments in the early education and care system, including governance, regulations, workforce development, K-12 linkages, standards, family support, and financial aspects. Approved proposals allocate $23.9M from the Child Care and Development Block Grant for quality improvements for infants and toddlers, summer voucher programs, and access for preschoolers. The timeline and breakdown of proposals highlight the allocation of ARRA funds for various projects. The update emphasizes the need to obligate and liquidate funds by specified deadlines, with detailed proposals to follow in subsequent presentations.

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Early Education and Care System Proposal Updates: ARRA Funding Allocation

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  1. BudgetARRA Update and ProposalsDecember 8, 2009

  2. Early Education and Care System Components: ARRA Investments • Governance (FS, C, I) • Regulations (Q, WF, C) • Workforce and Professional Development (Q, WF) • Early Education and Care and K-12 Linkages (FS, C, I, WF) • Standards, Assessment and Accountability (Q, FS,WF) • Informed Families and Public (FS, C, I) • Finance (Q, FS, WF, I) EEC Strategic Directions: Q = Quality FS = Family support, access, and affordability WF = Workforce C = Communications I = Infrastructure

  3. ARRA Update – Approved Proposals $23.9M Child Care and Development Block Grant • Of the $23.9M available through CCDF grant, $1.2M must be spent on quality improvements for infant and toddlers AND $1.9M of the $23.9M must be spent for quality improvements. • The $1.6M of the unexpended Summer Voucher program will be dedicated to a similar program in the summer of 2010. • The $8.1M for the Aging-Up program will be reallocated to support an 18-month opening of access for infant/toddlers and preschoolers.

  4. ARRA Update • Per ARRA CCDF Regulations, funds must be obligated by September 30, 2010 and liquidated by the following September 2011; • ANF, however, has requested that all agencies provide a plan on how they will obligate their ARRA funds by January, 2010; and • Per ANF guidance, the following is how EEC proposes to spend the remainder ARRA funds. Details of the proposals will come in later presentations today.

  5. ARRA Update –Proposed Projects Today’s Proposals are highlighted in yellow below; the projects highlighted in gray will be proposed at the January Board meeting.

  6. ARRA – Timeline of Proposals

  7. ARRA – Proposed Projects:Review • To date, the board has approved $13.3M in ARRA spending; • The proposals presented today will total $8.7M; • The total balance of proposals (January) will be $2M; • If all proposed programs are approved by the board and ANF, this will assign all ARRA funding; • Overall, $20.6M of ARRA (86%) will be dedicated toward access and $3.2M (13.4%) will be used for quality purposes. $120K, or .05% of all ARRA funding is withheld by ANF for admin purposes.

  8. ARRA Earmark Breakdown * $8.1M will be reallocated to the 18 month Access program; and ** In addition to the $4M, this program will also be funded with the $8.1M pre-school aging up project.

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