Adapting to Policy Changes: Private Early Care and Education Providers’ Responses to Chicago’s Public Preschool Expansion and Illinois’ Smart Start Workforce Grants 

Grant Type: doctoral


Grant description:

Aida Pacheco-Applegate (University of Chicago) will study the effects of preschool expansion and wage grants on early care and education providers in Chicago to demonstrate how public investments affect provider stability, service distribution, and equitable access. Co-funded with the Russell Sage Foundation. Additional support provided by the Washington Center for Equitable Growth.

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