| Account | Description | FY07 GAA |
FY08 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1599-0042 | Early Education and Care Provider Rate Increase For a reserve to improve the quality of the commonwealth's early education and care system; provided, that payments from this reserve shall be distributed by the department of early education and care to increase reimbursement rates for subsidized early education and care; provided further, that the increases shall be directed to expenditures for salaries, benefits, and stipends for professional development of early education and care workers or programmatic quality improvements; provided further, that the remainder of the funds appropriated herein shall be used to adjust said rates so as to reduce disparities between said rates, relative to the relevant private market rates, including such disparities as those between the rates paid for the same type of care from items 3000-3050, 3000-4050 and 4060, those between the rates paid for services for infants and toddlers and those paid for services for other children, and those between the rates paid for services provided by family child care providers and those paid for services provided by other providers; and provided further, that all said adjustments shall be subject to the approval of the board of early education and care |
12,500,000 | 7,000,000 |
| SPENDING CATEGORY |
FY04 Spending |
FY05 Spending |
FY06 Spending |
FY07 Spending |
FY08 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Assistance | 0 | 4,804 | 11,573 | 12,498 | 7,000 |
| TOTAL | 0 | 4,804 | 11,573 | 12,498 | 7,000 |