InFocus: Using Contracts to Support the ECE Workforce with the Urban Institute’s Gina Adams & Grace Luetmer
On Wednesday, February 16th, Gina Adams and Grace Luetmer joined us to discuss ways states can use contracts to support the wages, benefits, and training of the ECE workforce.
Gina Adams is a senior fellow in the Center on Labor, Human Resources, and Population and directs the Urban Institute’s Low-Income Working Families and Kids in Context initiatives. Her research spans a range of issues that affect the well-being of children and families. She is a national expert on child care and early education, focusing on the broad range of policies and programs affecting the affordability, quality, and supply of child care and early education, and factors affecting the ability of families with lower-incomes to access and participate in these services. Adams led seminal work on how parents, providers, and caseworkers experience these programs, which helped inform the “family friendly” and “provider friendly” provisions of the 2014 Reauthorization of the Child Care and Development Fund. In recent years, she has broadened her focus to encompass a wider range of policies, including breaking down siloes between child care and early childhood policies and other systems that support child and family well-being, as well as understanding the range of supports needed to stabilize children and families.
Grace Luetmer is a research associate in the Center on Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute. Before joining Urban, Luetmer completed her master of science in public policy and management at Carnegie Mellon University. Before her graduate studies, Luetmer was a Teach for America corps member. She was a department chair and high school mathematics teacher for three years in Phoenix, Arizona. Luetmer graduated from Boston College with a BA in economics.
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