Mapping Early Care and Education in Boston West Zone

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Mapping Early Care and Education in Boston West
Zone

• Created by Boston EQUIP
• For the Comprehensive Services Committee of the
  Boston Community Partnerships for Children

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Purpose

• To use mapping as a strategy to eliminate
  transportation as a barrier to children receiving
  special education services.

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Methodology

• The maps in this document were created in
  MapInfo.
• The community-based centers are current as of
  3/4/06 and were downloaded from the Dept of Early
  Education and Care (www.eec.state.ma.us/kr_regiona
  llist.aspx)
• The list of family child care providers are
  current as of 3/21/06 and came from Child Care
  Choices of Bostons list of active licensed
  providers.
• The list of Boston Public Elementary Schools
  EECs, ELCs, K-5s and K-8s is current as of
  3/31/06 and was received from the BPS Strategic
  Planning dept.
• The first circle around the public school has a
  distance of .25 miles, the second ring is .5
  miles.
• A separate PowerPoint has been created for each
  zone. The slides are organized alphabetically by
  public school.

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Legend

• Boston Public School
• Community Center-Based program
• Family Child Care
• BPS Zone boundary
• .25 mile and .5 mile concentric circles

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BostonAll Programsand Providers
North Zone
West Zone
East Zone
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West Zone All Programs Providers
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Programs in West Zone Boston Public Schools
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Programs in West Zone Community-Based Centers
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Programs in West Zone Family Child Care
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Programs in West Zone Family Child Care (contd)
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Programs in West Zone Family Child Care (contd)
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Programs in West Zone Family Child Care (contd)
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Agassiz
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Bates
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Beethoven
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Haynes EEC
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Conley
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Curley, James
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Dickerman
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Ellis
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Hale
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Haley
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Hennigan EL/West Zone ELC
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Hernandez
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Higginson
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Kennedy, John
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Kilmer
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Lyndon K-8
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Manning
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Mendell
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Mozart
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Ohrenherger
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Philbrick
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Sumner
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Trotter
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Young Achievers
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For more information contact

• Corey Zimmerman
• Boston EQUIP
• 617-695-0700 x 229
• czimmerman_at_associatedece.org
• www.bostonequip.org