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Early childhood education is critical for healthy growth and development, but many children don't receive the programs they need. Pay for success can help scale programs that work.
Chicago is using pay-for-success financing to expand preschool for low-income students. But Illinois's failure to pass a state budget could disrupt the project and many students' lives.
Whether you’re just curious about pay for success financing or a seasoned stakeholder, our new suite of tools and resources can help guide you.
Calling experimental approaches "more ambitious than proven programs" undermines PFS’s enormous potential to make government more efficient.
As the fifth year of pay for success in the United States comes to a close, it’s a good time to take a look at the state of the field.
We ranked interventions in four categories based on the strength of prior evaluations and demonstrable positive outcomes.
Urban and OMB director Shaun Donovan both announced programs on Wednesday to help the innovative financing mechanism grow further and faster.

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