Strategic Plan

Mission

The mission of the Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition is to build a system of quality early care and education that prepares children in Texas for success in their education and life.

Goals

• Increase the number of children who are enrolled in a system of quality early care and education.
• Improve the quality of early care and education available.
• Maximize existing resources for early care and education programs and secure additional resources necessary to build system.
• Develop a broad-based, statewide Coalition that builds ONE voice on critical issues affecting early care and education and develops local capacity to advocate.

Overall Outcomes

• Build an integrated system with adequate resources for early care and education.
• Institute a quality rating and accountability system in Texas for all early care and education programs.
• Make pre-school available to all children on a voluntary basis.
• Develop a statewide network of advocates with an agenda.

Strategies

• Develop an infrastructure to create and maintain a statewide network of advocates.
• Coordinate relevant early childhood plans and initiatives at the state level.
• Ensure the definition of an adequate education includes early care and education.
• Develop short-term and long-term goals for an early care and education policy agenda in Texas .

Organizational Guiding Principles

To secure the social and economic potential of Texas, the Coalition will operate by the following principles and:

• Promote the physical, social/emotional, cognitive, language and learning style development that results in children entering school ready to succeed
• Recognize that parent education and parent involvement are critical to child development.
• Increase access to care and improve quality of care simultaneously
• Make it easier for parents to access early childhood education and development and build an integrated system including Head Start, Pre-Kindergarten and regulated Child Care
• Support a voluntary system of quality early childhood education and development that is accessible to all children in Texas ages birth to 5 
• Incorporate an evaluation component in our efforts to identify and improve models of early childhood education and development that contribute to school readiness
• Promote public policies that apply findings from research and field experience about how children learn and develop
• Ensure that additional funds appropriated for early childhood education and development are used to supplement rather than supplant existing federal, state or local public dollars spent to provide services for early childhood education and development