A Statewide Early Childhood Education Needs Assessment for Texas

1. To understand and estimate the number of children under age 13 who will be eligible for early childhood education programs and services and before and after school-age care programs and services in the near term (2012-2015).

2. To understand and document the current supply across the state of Texas of formal providers of early childhood education programs and services as well as school-age care for children under the age of 13 based on data from federal, state and local agencies and service providers.

3. To conduct a gap analysis based on objectives #1 and #2.

4. To generate a final, comprehensive state of Texas needs assessment analyzing Texas’ early childhood education and school-age care system; and provides recommendations for meeting identified gaps in programs and services and quality and recommendations for conducting periodic needs assessment.

Texas Early Childhood Education Needs Assessment: Supply and Quality of Early Care and Education and School-Age Care
Authors: Deanna Schexnayder, Cynthia Juniper, Anjali Gupta, Daniel Schroeder, and Vanessa Morales
Date: August 2012
Publication Type: Report, 116 pp.

Texas Early Childhood Education Needs Assessment: Gaps between Need and Availability of Early Care and Education
Authors: Deanna Schexnayder, Cynthia Juniper, and Daniel Schroeder
Date: October 2012
Publication Type: Report, 51 pp.

Texas Early Childhood Education Needs Assessment: Final Report
Authors: Deanna Schexnayder, Cynthia Juniper, Daniel Schroeder, Steve H. Murdock, Michael Cline, Deborah Perez, P. Wilner Jeanty, and George Hough
Date: November 2012
Publication Type: Report, 80 pp.
Publisher: Ray Marshall Center for the Study of Human Resources, The University of Texas at Austin, and Hobby Center for the Study of Texas, Rice University