Mixed delivery early care systems experience fragmentation that creates barriers such as siloed funding, inefficient subsidies, and workforce turnover¶
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q2 i? In mixed delivery early care and learning systems, inadequate funding and variety of service modality result in fragmentation creating barriers including siloed funding streams, inefficient subsidy systems, fragmented data systems, and poverty-level wages with high workforce turnover. → Walrond 2025
Evidence¶
Walrond 2025¶
Walrond, N., Serwanga, R., & Farrell, G. (2025). Systems alignment and coherence: Opportunities for Alameda County's early care and education system. WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED673491
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Descriptive analysis in the report's background section enumerates challenges of mixed delivery systems, stating that "the lack of adequate funding and the variety of service modality results in fragmentation, creating barriers" such as siloed or opaque funding streams, long subsidy waiting lists, fragmented data systems, and poverty-level wages driving workforce turnover. No effect sizes are reported; this is a qualitative system characterization.
"the lack of adequate funding and the variety of service modality results in fragmentation, creating barriers to addressing enduring challenges"
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Mixed delivery early care systems experience fragmentation that creates barriers such as siloed funding, inefficient subsidies, and workforce turnover |
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Mixed delivery early care systems experience fragmentation that creates barriers such as siloed funding, inefficient subsidies, and workforce turnover |
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2025 |
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2026-10-20 |
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2030 |
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