justin b. doromal

Three Considerations for Improving the Supply and Quality of Child Care by Raising Early Educators’ Wages To improve child care access and quality, pay raises for the early childhood workforce must be implemented with careful consideration for which staff members are eligible, what the potential drawbacks...

How can we build more -- and better -- child care in America? @justinbdoromal.bsky.social and I have been studying one answer: raise wages for the early childhood workforce.

Here are three key lessons from state and local wage boost initiatives from coast to coast: www.urban.org/urban-wire/t...

Pathways to Pre-K 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...

This week, the #DC school lottery will match thousands of families with their first public school. But there is more than one path to enrollment bliss--especially in #pre-k. Check out our new brief on Pathways to Pre-K for more.
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How Public PK3 Mitigated School Enrollment Declines during the Pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic severely disrupted student learning and the delivery of public education. Across the United States, most public K–12 schools saw widespread enrollment declines during the 2020–21...

New Learning Curve essay on how public pre-K for 3-year-olds in DC mitigated school enrollment declines during the pandemic: