Educare Dc

What it reported doing in 2024

Early head start and head starteducare runs an early head start (infant-toddler) and head start (pre-kindergarten) program for children ranging in age from 6 weeks to 5 years across two educare dc school sites. Our infant-toddler program, for children ages 6 weeks to 3 years, is designed to provide children with high-quality interactions and caring attention from their teachers. The pre-kindergarten program uses a play-based curriculum to ensure the 3-, 4- and 5-year-old students are ready to learn and succeed in kindergarten and beyond. Teachers design learning units based on the children's interests. The philosophy behind this curriculum, which is aligned with the district of columbia early learning standards for pre-kindergarten (see schedule o)and the district of columbia common core early learning standards, is that young children learn best by doing; positive interactions and relationships with adults are critical foundations for successful learning; social-emotional skills are significant factors in school success; the physical environment affects the quality of learning interactions; and teacher-family partnerships support development and learning. To accomplish these objectives, the curriculum addresses four areas of development: social-emotional, physical, cognitive, and language. In each area, there is an emphasis on age-appropriate assessments, weekly lesson planning, program planning, teacher supervision, and family engagement. Three teachers work with 16-20 children, allowing each child to receive individualized attention and instruction. The programs are funded in part by the early head start and head start federal programs. Educare dc's flagship early learning center is located in dc's ward 7 neighborhood of parkside-kenilworth. We are fortunate to be housed in a state-of-the-art building that was custom built for our work, including our role as a training and demonstration site. To that end, our 32,000 square foot facility was designed with windows into every classroom and separate observation rooms that allow for observation with minimal classroom disruption. Educare dc's parkside location comprises 14 classrooms, each sharing a bathroom with its neighbor and each with direct access to outdoor play space. Our comprehensive services manager has a small health suite and there is also a dedicated lactation room for nursing parents and staff. Our school has two dedicated training rooms that can be combined into one large room. This space is most often utilized for professional development (internal and external) and community meetings. Our school also has two indoor gross motor rooms for active play in inclement weather, a parent resource area equipped with computers and meeting space, and an inner courtyard which hosts our school vegetable garden and butterfly habitat.our program expanded in 2021 as we opened a second school site, established a new subrecipient partnership and launched a prenatal program. This expanded programming allows educare dc to serve an additional 120 young children. Our second site is co-located at idea public charter school, a high school in dc's ward 7. Educare dc's idea location comprises 10 classrooms with the capacity to for up to 80 children and serves exclusively infants and toddlers. The space was designed and renovated with many of the same features as our flagship location (including direct access to outdoor play spaces, child-sized fixtures, and classroom observation rooms) and it provides the same high-quality, research-based early learning that educare dc is known for. The program serves a dual purpose as hands-on training facility for high school students enrolled in idea's child development associate (cda) program. By ensuring the next generation of early educators are skilled, knowledgeable, well-prepared, we hope to strengthen the early care and education sector more broadly. Early head start subrecipient: as a part of educare dc's early head start grant, we are partneri

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 76%; rating input score 76
• Program expense ratio: 84.7%; rating input score 85
• Fundraising efficiency: $54.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
  • Compensation committee: Pass
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.63; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 14.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 15% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings