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Page 9 | December 9, 2025 Health and Human Services: Childcare Assistance Appendix A: LFC Reports Finding Limited or No Impacts of Childcare Assistance on Education Report Year Key Education Findings Link Impact of Childcare and Head Start on Student Achievement 2013 Despite significant investments, childcare assistance for Low-income children does not produce positive gains in school readiness and early literacy Children Youth and Families Department - Impact of Childcare and Head Start on Student Achievement.pdf Evidence-based Early Education Programs to Improve Education Outcomes 2014 Most childcare does not have a positive return on investment in regards to educational outcomes Evidence-Based Early Education Programs to Improve Education Outcomes.pdf Progress Report: Early Childhood Education 2015 AIM High (NM previous TQRIS) does not provide a positive ROI EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRESS FINAL 2015 Early Childhood Accountability report 2015 Highlights the need for FOCUS (NM current TQRIS) to lead to improved school readiness Early Childhood 2015 Accountability Report.pdf 2016 Early Childhood Accountability report 2016 Low income kids in childcare or not have same reading proficiency rates (18%) 2016 Early Childhood Accountability Report.pdf 2017 Early Childhood Accountability report 2017 Low income children in childcare have lower proficiency rates overall than low income children overall and worse educational outcomes than pre-kindergarten Final 2017 Accountability Report Early Childhood.pdf 2018 Early Childhood Accountability report 2018 Low income children in childcare continue to have lower proficiency rates overall than low income children overall and worse educational outcomes than pre-kindergarten 2018 Accountability Report Early Childhood FINAL.PDF 2019 Early Childhood Accountability report 2019 Low income children in childcare continue to have lower proficiency rates overall than low income children overall and worse educational outcomes than pre-kindergarten 2019 Early Childhood Accountability Report.pdf Childcare Assistance Effectiveness Evaluation 2019 Childcare Participants are not More School- Ready Than Their Peers either in kindergarten or 3rd grade, regardless of star level Childcare Assistance Effectiveness, December 10, 2019.pdf 2021 Early Childhood Accountability report 2021 60% of lower income childcare participants were proficient in literacy at BOY, overall proficiency rates were not reported by PED Early Childhood Accountability Report, August 2021.pdf 2023 Early Childhood Accountability report 2023 in 2022 64% of low income childcare participants were reported kindergarten ready according to ECIDS Early Childhood Accountability Report 2023.pdf 2025 Early Childhood Accountability report 2025 52% childcare participants were kindergarten ready and A match groups analysis of proficiency rates found students enrolled in prekindergarten were one standard deviation more likely to pass an Istation language arts exam than those students who only utilized childcare assistance ALFC 081925 Item 2 2025 Early Childhood Accountability Report.pdf