Missing Out on What Matters: Early Care and Education Quality and Stability Gaps for Children in Foster Care

SRI Education brief describing the benefits of quality early childhood education (ECE) and ECE stability for children in foster care, and sharing results from a survey of foster parents in Arkansas. The survey indicated that children in foster care are less likely to participate in higher quality ECE, foster parents struggle to find ECE that meets their child’s needs, and children in foster care are more likely to experience instability in ECE programs.