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EEC updates public KPI dashboards to include program participation and regional wage breakdowns
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The Department of Early Education and Care updated its public key performance indicator dashboards in February to add data on CCFA program participation, licensed residential and placement programs and educator wages broken down by licensing region; officials said iterative improvements and downloadable data are planned.
The Department of Early Education and Care told its March advisory council that it has updated the public-facing key performance indicator (KPI) dashboards launched in October, adding new visuals and filters designed to help stakeholders track family access, program stability and workforce measures.
Amy Checkaway, recently promoted to deputy commissioner for policy, strategy and research, introduced the update and turned the presentation over to Adrian Murphy, senior director of data analytics, who reviewed new February additions to the dashboards. Adrian said the dashboards were launched to provide a “foundational structure” for tracking the agency’s strategic priorities and to increase transparency and public access to data about the sector.
Adrian said the February update added data on the proportion of licensed programs participating in Child Care Financial Assistance (CCFA) — a metric the agency now shows as indicating roughly a 50 percentage point increase in participation compared with a year earlier — plus licensed residential and placement program counts and capacities. The workforce section now includes educator wage data with licensing-region breakdowns.
“This data is only as good as it is valuable to both teams at EEC and folks out in the field using this data,” Adrian said, asking council members for feedback on additional local drilldowns and downloadable exports. Several council members urged more granular local reporting and city-level downloads so municipal leaders and legislators can see area-specific data.
Adrian said the team is working to add region filters, make visuals more navigable and provide downloadable program-level data. Amy said the agency will continue iterative improvements and encouraged stakeholders to submit suggestions for additional indicators; the department plans to add further priorities over time as more data become available.
Advisory council members told staff the dashboard has already been useful in directing external requests to a single source of truth. Marissa said she had used the dashboard to answer stakeholder requests, and Kim and others asked for more local detail and additional income cutoffs (for example, 85% of SMI) to enable comparisons. The agency said those kinds of enhancements are on the work list and that they will continue to solicit feedback from the field.
The dashboards and associated data links were shared with council members and posted to the agency’s public resources; staff said more written outputs and downloadable reports will follow as the tool evolves.
