“Power to the People: The Effectiveness of Ballot Measures in Advancing Early Care and Education” is available from the National Women’s Law Center.
With states trimming back their budgets for child-care and early-childhood-education programs, many advocacy groups have turned to ballot measures as a way to take their issues directly to the voters, concludes a report from the Washington-based National Women’s Law Center.
The center’s analysis of 13 recent ballot measures in seven states—related to increasing funding for early-childhood or after-school programs—found that nine of them were approved. Eight out of 18 county initiatives in Florida on such issues were also approved.
