Educare is a model of center-based early childhood care and education that includes a public-private funding partnership, a program to serve children birth to five, coaching for program staff, and wrap-around services for families. The program seeks to promote and sustain best practices in early childhood education to benefit children and families living in poverty, in particular the use of research evidence for continuous improvement, and, as such, ongoing evaluation is an essential feature of the Educare model. This ongoing evaluation for each Educare site is conducted by a Local Evaluation Partnership (LEP), who work in collaboration with programs to best determine their individual evaluation needs.  ARC is the local evaluator for Educare Springfield.

ARC team: Rachel Chazan Cohen, Vanessa Esquivel, Michelle Miller

Funder: Educare