Presentation to the Legislative Education Study Committee October - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Presentation to the Legislative Education Study Committee October 2017

 NM Indicators of child well being and performance  Early childhood system structure and funding in NM  Focus on 4 key programs today ◦ Home visiting ◦ Childcare ◦ PreK ◦ K3 Plus  Discuss Policy Issues 2

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Percent of Students Proficient on SY16 PARCC Reading Exam - All Grades 50.0%  Persistently poor educational outcomes 40.0%  Large achievement gap 30.0%  3 out of 4 third graders not proficient 20.0%  Desire for “game 10.0% changing” policy and funding strategy to get 0.0% FRL and EL FRL no EL EL no FRL No FRL or better results EL Source: LFC Files Achievement gap is 1 in 5 kindergarteners at high poverty schools cannot identify a prevalent across grades single letter. 5

Recurring Early Childhood Funding History FY14-FY18  The Legislature has (in millions) $400 continued to increase $350 investments in early $300 childhood education $250 despite declining $200 revenues $150  $122 million (62 percent) $100 increase since FY14 $50 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 Head Start/ Early Head Start FIT Early Literacy K-3 Plus Prekindergarten Home Visiting Child Care Assistance 6

Early Childhood Funding (FY18) Head Start/ Child Care Early Head Assistance, Start, $67.0 $100.2 FIT, $43.4 Home Early Literacy, Visiting, $18.3 $12.5 K-3 Plus, PreK, $53.5 $23.7 7

Early Childhood Services: Proportion Total At Risk 4YO Population Served Child Care, 3,531 Unserved, 3,434 PreK, 9,254 Source: USDHHS, CYFD, PED, LFC At risk is defined as qualifying for free and reduced price lunch. Numbers reflect unduplicated services Head Start, 3,491 8

Home Visiting  LFC estimates Need of (in millions) $20.0 5,985 slots at $22.8 $17.5 $18.3 $18.0 million $16.0 $14.3  HSD responding to GAA $14.0 $12.0 add of HV in Medicaid $10.6 $10.0 $8.1  Opportunity to close $8.0 $5.9 gap up to 77 cents on $6.0 $4.0 dollar using evidence- $2.3 $2.0 based practice $0.0 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 9

Child Care Assistance  Costs and enrollment are (in millions) $120.0 up $96.6 $100.2 $100.2 $97.8  Evaluations of previous $95.6 $100.0 $87.2 ratings system showed no $82.9 $80.0 impact on ed outcomes  4-year enrollment up but $60.0 standards below PreK $40.0  Little research supporting child care as a child abuse $20.0 intervention $0.0 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 10

PreK  PreK improves outcomes (in millions) $60.0 for children through 5 th $53.3 $52.1 $51.1 grade. $50.0  LFC looking at longer $40.0 $36.5 term outcomes now. $30.0 $30.0  Estimated $34 million $19.2 $20.0 $14.5 gap to cover all eligible $10.0 clients $0.0 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 11

Prekindergarten Participation and 5th Grade PARCC Proficiency 32% 31% 30% 29% 28% 27% 26% 25% 24% Prekindergarten No Prekindergarten Source: LFC Analysis of CYFD/PED data 12

 Scientifically proven program when implemented with same teacher for 25 days  Some evidence stacking eliminates achievement gap  LFC has highlighted issues with implementation  Significant gaps in funding ($69 million to cover total eligible clients) 13

 Medicaid could eliminate funding gap for home visiting with affordable state match  Need to grow implementation of evidence- based of evidence-based home visiting such as NFP, First Born, and others.  If interested in improving educational outcomes then focus on other interventions besides child care ◦ until child care is proven to effect these outcomes, should we consider adding dollars to the program? 14

 Decide expansion path for PreK ◦ Full day ◦ 3 year olds  Consider enrolling 3 and 4 year olds in PreK rather than full time childcare and focus on after school funding rather than child care assistance for school age children  What to do with Head Start  Implement K3 Plus correctly in greater scale; align with PreK 15