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State policies that promote health, education, and strong families can help the early development and school readiness of America's youngest citizens. This profile highlights Arizona's policy choices alongside other contextual data related to the well-being of young children.
State Highlights1
In 2009 The Arizona Early Childhood Development and Health Board approved an emergency early childhood support package of nearly $48 million. About half of these funds will go towards expanding eligibility for child care subsidies and the other half will fund family support programs, including those designed to prevent abuse and neglect. The Board also approved an additional $1.2 million annual allocation for a statewide child care health consultation program. While Arizona increased spending for child care, it reduced pre-kindergarten funding through the Early Childhood Block Grant by $4.4 million, making a total of $15.1 million available for pre-kindergarten programs. Although the state provided pre-kindergarten with $12.7 million in funding from the block grant in FY 2009, it is uncertain how the decrease will affect FY 2010 funding.
- Young children (under age 6)2: 581,441
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Data Notes and Sources
Last Updated: December 4, 2009
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- State Highlights are drawn from states' government and organization websites and reports. For more information, contact ITO@nccp.org.
- State data were calculated from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement (the March supplement) of the Current Population Survey from 2007, 2008, and 2009, representing information from calendar years 2006, 2007, and 2008. NCCP averaged three years of data because of small sample sizes in less populated states. The national data were calculated from the 2009 data, representing information from the previous calendar year.
- National and state data were calculated from the 2008 American Community Survey.