As DC faces economic uncertainty, a fund that continues to help child care providers pay their staff competitive wages will boost educator compensation, keep child care businesses open, and help famil...

This summary describes the ongoing benefits of the District of Columbia’s wage enhancement program for early childhood educators, the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, to early childhood educa...

The District of Columbia began enhancing the wages of early childhood educators in its licensed child care facilities in 2022 through a landmark initiative supported by tax revenue. The initiative is ...

In this brief, we map out families’ experiences across application and enrollment to illustrate how families come to enroll, or not enroll, in Pre-K3, DC’s public prekindergarten program for 3-year-ol...

The Urban Institute’s Education Data Portal offers users the ability to view data endpoints and select summary endpoints directly in their web browser. Users can access this application programming interface (API) by directly hitting a URL endpoint or by using Stata or R. All data are returned in JSON format and can be viewed directly in a web browser.