The Alliance for Early Success has released its annual report on state power and progress to secure more public funding for early childhood development. Despite headwinds, early childhood advocates are working together and adding capacity to get hard-fought wins for young children and their families.
The 2025 50-State Early Childhood Policy Progress and Landscape Report describes how state advocacy ecosystems are evolving and wielding power along with an analysis of what happened in state capitals based on a survey of policy advocates in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report includes:
- The role of the Alliance for Early Success in catalyzing a large, powerful, and highly networked early childhood advocacy community dedicated to every child, in every state
- State early childhood landscape pages for all 50 states and the District of Columbia
- Policy wins aggregated by issue area
- Highlights from the year in building state-level constituencies for early childhood issues
“It’s the constituency-building progress that is the most important part of the progress in 2025,” says Alliance Executive Director Helene Stebbins.
“While the 2025 wins are impressive and deserve celebration, the investment in the perennial power of the early childhood advocacy voice must be maintained,” she says. “There is no winning and going home in politics or policy. The work continues after the bill passes with a thousand decisions on how to implement it and a thousand threats to defund it.”
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