Background Information for Think Tank on Planning, Governance and System Building Early Care and Education--NYC.

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This document provides some background on early childhood planning and system building around the country. Since mid-December, the author has been studying these efforts for Child Care, Inc. (CCI) interviewing national experts and reading widely. This outline provides insights and lesson learned from those inquiries. The goal at this meeting will be to work toward developing recommendations about how to jump-start a "sustainable process of system building" for early care and education in New York City.