{"acknowledges":[{"funders":[{"name":"United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation"}],"identifiers":[{"identifier":"RCA 90YE0107\/01, \/02 and \/03","identifierSource":"United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation"}]}],"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"32621","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Study Number"}],"availability":"AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public.","citationCount":2,"citations":[{"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"136388","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Reference Id"}],"authors":[{"fullName":"Forry, Nicole D."},{"fullName":"Daneri, M.P."},{"fullName":"Davis, Elizabeth E."},{"fullName":"Krafft, Caroline"},{"fullName":"Welti, Kate"}],"dates":[{"date":"Nov 01, 2012","type":{"value":"publication date","valueIRI":""}}],"title":"Subsidy continuity in Maryland","type":{"value":"Report","valueIRI":"http:\/\/purl.org\/spar\/fabio\/"}},{"alternateIdentifiers":[{"alternateIdentifier":"136271","alternateIdentifierSource":"ICPSR Reference Id"}],"authors":[{"fullName":"Grafwallner, Rolf"}],"dates":[{"date":"2008","type":{"value":"publication date","valueIRI":""}}],"title":"Maryland Cooperative Agreement to Merge Data Files to Research the Effect of Subsidy Programs on School Readiness","type":{"value":"unknown","valueIRI":"http:\/\/purl.org\/spar\/fabio\/"}}],"creators":[{"affiliations":[{"name":"Maryland State Department of Education"}],"firstName":"Rolf","fullName":"Grafwallner, Rolf","lastName":"Grafwallner"}],"description":"
This project allowed the Maryland State Department of Education to accomplish two objectives: The first part of the project involved integrating existing state databases, including those of the child care subsidy program, licensing and credentialing programs, and the Maryland Model for School Readiness kindergarten assessment data as outcome measures. It also included negotiating to gain access to relevant additional databases, including those of the Resource and Referral agencies, Head Start organizations, public pre-K, etc. This was done under the advisement of a Research Advisory Group, composed of state staff, university and research partners, out-of-state advisors, and representatives of local provider groups.<\/p> In the second part of the project, as a result of the increased capability to study the connections between child care subsidies, licensing compliance, credentialing and accreditation, and school readiness, analysis of the merged data addressed such questions as: