Reports & Toolkits

A Center Piece of the PreK Puzzle: Providing State Prekindergarten in Child Care Centers highlights the opportunities and challenges for child care centers providing state-funded prekindergarten programs, and offers strategies for ensuring that child care centers are able to fully participate in state prekindergarten initiatives and offer high-quality early education programs. 

When Girls Don’t Graduate, We All Fail: A Call to Improve High School Graduation Rates for Girls demonstrates that there is a dropout crisis for girls in our nation’s schools. One of every four girls fails to complete her high school diploma in four years, and the numbers are worse for girls of color. These dropout patterns result in severe economic consequences for girls and their families.

Latinos currently have the highest number of uninsured of any racial or ethnic group and Medicaid is vital to ensuring health coverage for many low-income Latinos. Expanding and protecting access to Medicaid is a critical strategy for reducing health disparities and ensuring broader access to health care for low-income Latino families. This toolkit emphasizes the role that Medicaid expansions can play in reducing health disparities in the Latina community.

On behalf of Planned Parenthood Federation of America and NWLC Peter D. Hart Research Associates, Inc., has undertaken a comprehensive multi-stage research project focused on issues surrounding reproductive health and abortion. The research was driven by several core objectives, including identifying policy opportunities to advance a pro-family planning, pro-reproductive rights agenda. This research differs from other recent research efforts in at least two regards.