Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE)
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Approved with change
02/04/2024
02/02/2024
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2025
09/30/2025
09/30/2025
1,618
0
1,618
1,228
0
1,278
0
0
0
The BASE project aims to understand factors that affect child care and early education (CCEE) workforce dynamics, including employment recruitment, retention, and advancement, as well as to build the evidence base about strategies that may help to recruit, retain, and advance the CCEE workforce.
The proposed information collection aims to build the evidence base about the implementation, costs, and impacts of strategies aimed at improving the compensation and economic well-being of educators in child care center-based and home-based settings. The BASE project will do so by leveraging two pilot initiatives being implemented by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) that provide additional funding and supports to center-based child care settings to improve teacher compensation and funding for home-based child care settings to support the provision of benefits to owners (referred to as providers hereafter) and staff (referred to as assistants hereafter).
The study includes four substudies: Impact Study, Descriptive Study, Implementation Study, and a Cost Study.
The survey and interview protocols for the home-based providers, approved by OMB, were developed assuming the intervention for this group would be similar in nature to that for center-based providers. In late 2023, CDEC finalized the intervention for home-based providers. The intervention improves teachersâ compensation, as intended, but is implemented differently to better fit the structure and needs of home-based child care providers and assistants: annual award amounts for two years that can be used to fund medical benefits (health, dental, vision, HSA/FSA), paid time off (substitute teacher coverage or revenue replacement during closures), and retirement contributions.
The purpose of the data collection is the same as originally described in the approved OMB materials, and the methods of data collection are the same. The changes to the data collection instruments are only meant to remove items and refine the wording of some items to better align with the design and implementation of the finalized intervention with home-based providers, including language used in CDECâs initiative outreach materials, and to reduce burden on home-based providers and assistants and on center-based directors. We believe these revisions to these study protocols will enhance the quality and amount of the data collected to address the governmentâs questions about the impact and implementation of workforce compensation strategies.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
BASE_Nonsubstantive change request_OMB_revised 1.16.2024_FINAL_HomeBased.docx
Appendix D_BASE Project IRB Approval.pdf
8. Center-based setting costs workbook