The Alliance for Early Success is a 50-state resource for early-childhood advocates as they pursue the big, sustained impact that will ensure every child in every state, birth through age eight, has an equal chance to grow, learn, and succeed.
The new Early Childhood Workforce Index from the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment puts more hard data behind the growing awareness that the U.S. child care system is collapsing under the pressures of the COVID-19 pandemic, with early childhood educators especially hard hit.
As we turn our focus from emergency child care to building a strong early care system for the future, it
With the inauguration of the state’s new Early Childhood Education and Care Department, New Mexico has become the fourth state in the nation to have a cabinet level department dedicated to early childhood. The creation of the department reflects the Governor’s focus on improving the lives of New Mexico’s youngest children.
Open Strong was developed by state early childhood advocates and the Alliance for Early Success to assist state advocates in raising key issues and questions, to provoke conversations and solutions that are particular to operating child care programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
EDITORIAL Alliance for Early Success Senior Policy Director Albert Wat weighs in on the high expectations we have of the Early Care and Learning workforce during this crisis — and how it is misaligned with the low regard we have shown the field in the past.
The Wyoming Early Childhood Professional Learning Collaborative — initiated when the Wyoming Early Childhood Outreach Network (WYECON) and Wyoming Kids First started to explore opportunities to improve the quality of early childhood education in the state — is working full steam to improve the opportunities for Wyoming’s youngest learners by supporting the professional development of their early childhood educators.
In September, the Alliance for Early Success organized a national conference on the early childhood education profession. The meeting was an opportunity for 200+ state leaders, advocates, national experts, and early childhood educators to share promising strategies and lessons learned thus far, and to engage each other on the future.
The Children’s Leadership Council of Michigan continued its advocacy for high-quality, affordable child care and worked with advocates and policymakers to develop and prioritize policy options for investing new CCDBG funds. In the FY2019 budget, lawmakers increased overall spending on the child care subsidy to reflect increased enrollment in the program.
