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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 Oklahoma's policy choices alongside other contextual data related to the well-being of young children.
State Highlights1
Three early care and education centers for infants and toddlers will be created in the Tulsa Public School system using $15 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) State Fiscal Stabilization Fund dollars and a matching grant from the George Kaiser Family Foundation. The Tulsa Public Schools will invest an additional $2 million for operating costs. The new centers will serve an estimated 600 at-risk infants and toddlers in Tulsa. In addition to supports for infants and toddlers, Oklahoma exempts low-income working families from state income tax up to 121 percent, an increase from 103 percent in 2007.
- Young children (under age 6)2: 301,952
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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.