The Carolina Collaborative for Early Childhood Innovation (CC4ECI) is a funding model designed to provide resources for First Steps local partnership to implement and test innovative programs for children and families in their community. Through innovative programming and iterative feedback loops, local partnerships will identify what works, for whom, and in what conditions.

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Research has demonstrated evidence of the impact for various early childhood interventions. However, circumstances, conditions, and communities exist where evidence-based programs are not as effective in meeting the needs of children and families. Developing funding models that encourage and evaluate innovation can generate evidence for the effectiveness of early childhood interventions that are tailored to unique community conditions.

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South Carolina First Steps, the state’s public-private partnership for early childhood services, announced today that Ann Vandervliet has been named as its new executive director.

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At the beginning of the 2023-24 school year, the KRA was administered to 53,354 incoming kindergartners across South Carolina, according to the South Carolina Education Oversight Committee.

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