Educare Schools:
- Each serve 140-200 students
- Full-day, full-year
School Size:
- 27,000-34,000 square feet
- Design requirements:
- Create a showroom for quality birth-to-5 learning
- Infants and toddlers: 50% of space
- Minimize transitions
- Multiple indoor/outdoor play spaces to meet developmental needs of children
- Consultation space
- Include ample training and community space
Construction costs:
- Currently range from $8 million to $12 million
Operating budgets:
- $2.8 million to $3.4 million
- Head Start and Early Head Start generally fund 50-60 percent of operational costs
- Blended funding streams also drawn from the local school district (preschool) and state (child care) to support quality
Governance:
- Set out in an Educare shared governance contract
- Educare Board includes key major stakeholders
- Educare Board hires Educare Director
- Local partners also sign a Network Partnership Agreement granting display of Educare icon and requiring participation in research evaluation activities.
- Research
- National evaluation conducted by FPG Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Local research conducted by Ph.D. hired by each site to serve as embedded evaluation partner
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