Act 76 is a law about child care and early education. It went into effect on June 20, 2023. With the help of partners, Building Bright Futures developed a plan for monitoring Act 76.
BBF collected information from our partners. The term “partners” includes people who are experts in their field, parents, child care providers, and others. We wanted to know what they felt was most important to understand about Act 76. To collect this information, BBF held 13 meetings with partners. BBF also used a survey to collect information.
The meetings and survey had three goals:
- We wanted to agree on what success looks like when the law works well for children and families.
- We wanted to decide what to measure.
- We wanted to develop a plan for monitoring the law over the next 10 years.
To reach those goals, we asked these questions:
- What would success look like for each part of the law?
- What are the top three things we would need to measure in order to understand the effect of Act 76?
We reviewed all the information we received about the two questions through the meetings and survey. Our partners identified nine topics that were important to them. BBF will gather information each year to understand how Act 76 is affecting these topics. The nine topics are:
- Experience of families and providers
- Equal access to child care
- Early childhood workforce
- Quality of child care
- Child outcomes
- Financial impact
- Child care program stability
- Cost
- Economic impact
You can learn more by reading our news post on the Act 76 report or by visiting our main Act 76 page.
