Is the child care crisis escalating?
Maintaining a high quality of care is the bottom line, experts say. Simply expanding access to child care or lowering its costs is not enough to give children the head start they need.
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Maintaining a high quality of care is the bottom line, experts say. Simply expanding access to child care or lowering its costs is not enough to give children the head start they need.
California must expand and support access to child care options even as transitional kindergarten rolls out.
For long-term and lasting solutions, we must attract more young people to enter the teaching profession and give them the training and support they need to succeed.
Polls show that Californians have the will to invest in child care and teachers’ wages. Do the governor and lawmakers?
It will be important to continue to monitor the generation of children born during the pandemic, experts say, to provide any extra help they might need.