The Nebraska Child Care Cost Model: Interim Study Report for LR151

Child care cost models are tools that illuminate the relationships between the expense of delivering child care and the revenues available to the providers of these services. In 2020, work began on developing a Nebraska-specific cost model that would inform strategic decisions to guide our state toward a child care system in which early childhood educators are compensated fairly, receive the training and skills necessary to meet the demands of the field, and have sufficient program resources to meet the needs of the children they serve. This report examines the outcomes of those efforts.