Title: 2005 Neighborhood Profiles: RoslindaleWest Roxbury Hyde Park
12005 Neighborhood Profiles Roslindale/West
Roxbury/Hyde Park
- What do children and families need?
- Whats available?
- How good is it?
- Boston EQUIP
- Boston Early Education Quality Improvement
Project - A project of
- Funding provided by Boston Community Partnerships
for Children
2Overview
- Boston EQUIP Model
- Methodology
- Demand and Supply
- Quality
- Next steps
3The Boston Early Education Quality Improvement
ProjectBoston EQUIP
- Established 1994, as a project of Associated
Early Care and Educations Research and Policy
department - Mission to collaborate with members of the
Boston early education community to
systematically evaluate, set goals for, and
improve upon the quality of early childhood
programs. - Primary tool Community Profiles surveys.
Collected data 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, with the
most recent being 2004
4The Boston EQUIP model
2. Set goals and benchmarks
3. Improve upon the quality
1. Evaluate
52004 Community Profiles Methodology
- Community Profiles surveys
- Center / Head Start - All
- Family Child Care - Stratified random sample
- Public School Preschool - All
- Timeline 2 year process
- Used other community and national sources as
relevant
6Community Profiles Survey Response Rates
additional surveys sent to/received from Boston
Public Schools with K2 classrooms
7Neighborhoods
Charlestown / North End
East Boston
Back Bay/ B.Hill/ DT
Allston-Brighton
South End / Chinatown/ Fenway
South Boston
Jamaica Plain / Roxbury
Boston CPC Neighborhoods are based on the Boston
Public Health Commission Neighborhood boundaries
Dorchester
Roslindale / W. Rox / Hyde Park
Mattapan
8DEMAND FOR EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION IN
ROSLINDALE/WEST ROXBURY/HYDE PARK
9Young Child Population
7,847
7,556
6,724
- maternal residence Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde
Park
Note population children birth to 5 years, 4
months
10Population by Neighborhood
18 of population of Boston
Boston population 42,822
11Characteristics of Young Child Population
- Age
- 3,882 are infant-toddlers (birth to 2 years, 8
months) - 3,674 are preschoolers (2 years, 9 months to 5
years, 4 months)
- Income
- Approximately 13 (982) live below 25 of
state-median-income - Approximately 26 (1,964) live below 50 of
state-median-income
- Working Families
- 86 of young children live with at least one
caregiver in labor force
12SUPPLY OF EARLY CARE AND EDUCATION IN
ROSLINDALE/WEST ROXBURY/HYDE PARK
13 of Programs Providers
14Capacity
Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park provides 13 of
Bostons capacity
Total Boston capacity 18,876
15Capacity by Type of Care in Roslindale/W.
Roxbury/Hyde Park
16Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park Capacity by Age
Infant-toddlers 29
Preschoolers 71
17THE RELATIONSHIP OF SUPPLY DEMAND IN
ROSLINDALE/WEST ROXBURY/HYDE PARK
18Is There Sufficient Supply to Meet Demand in
Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park?
Answer Depends on how define demand
- Total population
- 2. Low-income children
- 3. Children living in working families
- 4. Universal Demand Estimates
19Relationship of Supply to Total Population
20Supply Minus Demand Formula
Unmet Need (-) Or Excess Supply ()
Supply
-
Demand
Infant-toddler Supply 649
Infant-toddler Demand 3,882
-
-3,233
21Infant-toddler Supply minus Demand
17 of demand is met by capacity in
Roslindale/ West Roxbury/ Hyde Park
22Preschool Supply minus Demand
44 of preschool demand is met by supply in
Roslindale/ West Roxbury/ Hyde Park
23Supply minus Low-income Demand (children living
below 50 of SMI)
122 of low-income demand met by supply in
Roslindale/ West Roxbury/ Hyde Park
24Working Family Supply minus Demand
57 of working family demand met by supply in
Roslindale/ West Roxbury/ Hyde Park
25Universal Demand Estimates
Infant-toddler universal demand
50 Preschool universal demand 77
26Infant-toddler Supply minus Universal Demand
33 of Infant-toddler Universal Demand is met by
supply in Roslindale/ West Roxbury/ Hyde Park
Total for Boston -5,996
27 Preschool Supply minus Universal Demand
57 of Preschool Universal Demand is met by
supply in Roslindale/ West Roxbury/ Hyde Park
Total for Boston 2,615
500
to
580
0
to
500
-410
to
-1
-1,210
to
-410
28Summary of Supply Demand
Is There Sufficient Supply to Meet Demand in
Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park
- Total population
- 2. Low-income children
- 3. Children living in working families
- 4. Universal Demand Estimates
- Other Factors
- Serving children from Roslindale/West
Roxbury/Hyde Park only? - Affordability of care (subsidized versus
non-subsidized care)?
29QUALITY OFEARLY CARE AND EDUCATIONIN
ROSLINDALE/WEST ROXBURY/HYDE PARK
30Quality of Early Care and Education Overview
- Program quality
- Accreditation
- Teacher quality
- Education levels
- Salary
31Accreditation
n 192
(NAEYC, NAFCC or possess active CDA if family
child care provider)
32Teacher Quality Bachelor Degree or Higher
Roslindale/ W. Roxbury/ Hyde Park
Boston
Boston Public School Preschools
100
Teachers
Paraprofessionals
16
Directors
69
69
Community Based/Head Start Center
38
36
Lead Teachers
Teachers
21
10
Assistant Teachers
11
0
Family Child Care
14
Providers
unable to determine no survey data available
or small sample
33Teacher Salary - Boston
- Boston Public Schools average teacher hourly rate
57.93 (Range 36.67-70.27) - Center / Head Start Lead Teacher average hourly
rate 14.00 - Family child care provider average hourly
earnings revenue (out-of-pocket expenses
cost of using home) 7.32 across MA
Data source Boston Teachers Union Community
Profiles 2003-2004 C/HS survey Massachusetts
Cost and Quality study on Family Child Care
www.wcwonline.org/earlycare/FamilyChildCare2004.pd
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34Salary for Community-Based/Head Start Centers
25
Boston
22
Roslindale/West Roxbury/Hyde Park
20.78
20
14
13.97
15
Salary (/hour)
12
11.09
10
9.86
10
5
0
Lead Teacher
Teacher
Ass't Teacher
Director
35LOOKING AHEAD
36Higher Teacher Education Requirements
- What do we know?
- High quality standards are being set with BA
requirements and deadlines - 100 of Public School Preschool teachers in
Boston have a BA or higher, only 38 of Center
and Head Start Lead teachers in Roslindale/West
Roxbury/Hyde Park currently have a BA
- What do we not know?
- Suspect certain barriers exist non-traditional
students, English as a second language, cost,
time, courses and certificates that dont
matriculate - What percentage of teachers are currently
enrolled in a degree-granting program? - What are best practices for supporting
non-traditional students to earn higher education
degrees?
- What are we doing to support the current and
future workforce to earn higher education
degrees? What data do we need to make these
decisions?
37Universal Voluntary High Quality Preschool
- Capacity for UPK
- Is the current capacity being maximized? How much
does capacity need to expand? Who will expand? By
when must they expand? - Qualified workforce
- Higher education degrees
- Expanding the workforce as capacity expands
- Integrating child care and early education
- Boston and its process
- A process will need to be developed that
incorporates education about the issues,
collaborative decision-making, and advocacy.
38What can we use this data for?
Now that we have all this useful information, it
would be nice to be able to do something with it.
(Actually, it can be emotionally fulfilling just
to get information. This is usually only true,
however, if you have the social life of a
kumquat.) (UNIX Programmer's Manual)
- Planning Resource Allocation
- What needs to be planned?
- Improving quality and access
- Higher education/UPK
- Where will this planning occur?
- Individual agency
- Neighborhood
- Boston
39The Boston EQUIP model
2. Set goals and benchmarks
3. Improve quality/ access
1. Evaluate
40What can we use this data for?
- Planning Resource Allocation
- What needs to be planned?
- Improving quality and access
- Higher education/UPK
- Where will planning occur?
- Individual agency
- Neighborhood
- Boston
- Unanswered Questions
- Subsidized care
- Workforce
41For more information
www.bostonequip.org Corey Zimmerman Boston
EQUIP Associated Early and Education 95 Berkeley
St., Suite 306 Boston, MA 02116 617-695-0700,
ext. 229 e-mail czimmerman_at_associatedece.org