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Survey of Child Care Centers
The first phase of the assessment was a survey of all 266 child
care centers that were licensed by the State of Louisiana in
Orleans Parish at the time of Hurricane Katrina (Aug. 28, 2005).
The survey did not include family child care homes, those early
childhood programs operated in private residences, unless they
were licensed by the state.
ECI had already collaborated with the Community Information
Resource Center (CIRC) of the Rural Policy Research Institute,
University of Missouri, to geocode a statewide list of licensed
centers for the Early Childhood Atlas (www.earlychildhood.msstate.edu/atlas),
an ongoing project to provide mapping tools and spatial analysis
to early childhood researchers and policymakers.
The survey of child care centers took place over the dates of
June 15-16 and June 19-21, 2006. Twenty-one surveyors visited
centers in assigned survey areas, recording data about each
center they located.
Survey of Schools
ECI also conducted a telephone survey July 5-7, 2006, to
determine the status (open or closed for Fall 2006) of all
non-public schools with grades PreK, K, or 1 in Orleans Parish,
using a list of non-public schools by the Louisiana Department
of Education (n.d.). At least three attempts were made to
contact each school. Approximately one-third of the telephone
numbers of the non-public schools were disconnected; other
schools were closed for the summer. ECI successfully contacted
approximately one-third of the schools. ECI supplemented this
new data with the results of a list, of public schools to be
open in the fall, published by the Times-Picayune (n.d.).
Survey of Housing Stock
The Office of Gulf Coast Rebuilding in the U.S. Department of
Homeland Security compiled data based upon FEMA inspectors’
visits to the disaster areas between the time of the hurricane
and February 12, 2006. Based upon these inspections homes were
assigned a damage level of none, minor, major or severe. CIRC
used the summary data of individual planning districts to
determine the percentage of homes having sustained each level of
damage.
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