TECEC Original Reports and Publications

Community-Based School Readiness Integration Partnerships: Promoting Sustainable Collaborations. Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition & The University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center. March 2009.
This guide builds upon the legislative, state agency, and community efforts to create a seamless, integrated, birth to age five early childhood education system. The purpose of this guide is to:

1. describe the need for school readiness integration partnerships within the context of a rapidly changing demographic environment;
2. define community-based partnerships and provide current and potential community-based partners with an understanding of the prevalent types of partnership models that exist in local communities;
3. provide current and future community-based partners with a Texas specific, research-based, collaboration process guide that will allow them to work toward sustainable outcomes for children; and
4. highlight successful community-based partnerships in Texas and locally-adaptable tools that assist in the collaboration process. This guide represents data collected from over 100 stakeholders from throughout Texas.

Professionals with expertise in various aspects of early childhood education were interviewed in both individual and group settings. The 8-step process developed in this guide to serve as a model for the collaboration process is based on these interviews.

A Regional Audit of Williamson County’s Early Childhood Education and Development Infrastructure. Commissioned by The Chisholm Trail Community Foundation. April 2008.
As commissioned by the Chisholm Trails Community Foundation, this report examines Williamson County's early childhood education and development infrastructure, which includes public school pre-k, federal Head Start, and private and non-profit child care programs, ages birth to five. Along with an extensive audit of various aspects of the County's early childhood education infrastructure and the addition of county-specific demographicinformation, the study helps to provide a better understanding of the importance of high-quality early childhood education in the community.

A Side by Side Comparison of Select Early Childhood Education Programs in Texas. Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition. Published by the Texas Association of School Boards. Summer 2007.
The Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC) conducted a side-by-side overview of select early childhood education programs in Texas across several standard categories. The purpose of this overview is not to provide an in-depth analysis of various early childhood education programs but instead to provide the reader with a strong, preliminary understanding of how select programs in Texas are both similar and different.

A Cost Benefit Analysis of Universally-Accessible Pre-Kindergarten Education in Texas. The Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University. May 2006.
According to the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, every $1.00 invested in high quality early education programs saves Texas communities at least $3.50.

The Texas Plan: A Statewide Early Education and Development System (Texas SEEDS), Second Edition. Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition & Texas Program for Society and Health at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. May 2005.
Among the Coalition’s most important accomplishments to date is a comprehensive, ten-year public policy agenda to enhance early childhood education and development in Texas titled the Texas Plan: Public Policies to Build a Statewide Early Education and Development System for Texas (Texas SEEDS) and serves as the guiding document for all TECEC efforts. The document is the result of a partnership with the Texas Program for Society and Health of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University and comprises collaboratively developed guiding principles and 50 specific policy recommendations within ten policy issue areas. The Texas Plan, now in its second edition, has been constructed with the intensive participation of TECEC members.