The Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (CSCCE) at UC Berkeley is pleased to announce that we will be conducting a new California Early Care and Education Workforce Study in partnership with the California Child Care Resource & Referral Network. The study is funded by the California Department of Education, Early Learning and Care Division; First 5 California; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the David & Lucile Packard Foundation.

Comprehensive statewide ECE workforce data has not been collected since CSCCE’s 2006 California Early Care and Education Workforce Study. Twelve years later, California lags behind most other states when it comes to the status of its workforce data, and the absence of an updated statewide survey or a statewide workforce registry creates numerous challenges to the implementation of evidence-based decision making. Additionally, changes in the political, economic, and cultural environment over the past 12 years (such as the implementation of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems, transitional kindergarten, and local minimum wage ordinances) underscore the urgency for current and ongoing data to accurately assess the progress and consequences of policy approaches and interventions.

The new study, to be implemented in 2019, will provide a statewide, regional, and to the extent possible, local picture of the ECE workforce and will serve as the cornerstone for an ongoing, comprehensive data system for the early childhood workforce in California.

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