The Delaware Early Care and Education Expulsion and Suspension (DECEES) project is funded by the Delaware Department of Education and is a collaborative effort between the Delaware Institute for Excellence in Early Childhood (DIEEC), the University of Delaware Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, the Delaware Department of Education (DDOE), and the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS). The DECEES project is designed to examine past and current Delaware initiatives that support continued enrollment of young children under age 5 in state-licensed early care and education programs; understand the state landscape for tracking the expulsion and suspension of young children; and uplift the voices of families impacted by expulsion and/or suspension through a three-part brief series.

This brief is the second in the three-part series and reports findings from a statewide survey examining expulsion and suspension practices in licensed early childhood programs and the resources used by programs for enrollment retention.

Read the report HERE.