As part of President Obama’s Early Education
Plan, Congress authorized $500 million in the 2014
Omnibus Act to support states and communities in
expanding high-quality early learning through the creation
of a new Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership initiative.
This initiative has placed renewed interest on research
regarding the nature and benefits of Head Start and child
care partnerships. In this study, we sought to confirm—or
call into question—the benefits of Head Start and child care
partnerships by performing secondary analysis of data
collected from child care centers in partnership and matched
non-partnering comparison centers.