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There’s a new child care survey for Massachusetts parents.
So please ask the parents in your programs to fill it out. It should take less than five minutes.
“Help us to identify what is most important to you as a parent/guardian of 0-5 year old child(ren),” the survey says. “We will use this information to guide expansion of child care supports.”
As we’ve blogged (here and here), gathering data from families is a crucial step in developing successful child care policies.
The survey is the result of a partnership between the Boston Public School’s Department of Early Childhood; the City of Boston’s Economic Mobility Lab — a team of social entrepreneurs who work in the Mayor’s Office of Policy to “advance the upward economic mobility of Bostonians;” and the Boston Opportunity Agenda, which is part of StriveTogether, “a national network of local communities striving to achieve racial equity and economic mobility.” (more…)