How States Are Innovating in Early Child Care and Education Policy

How States Are Innovating in Early Child Care and Education Policy

When “Build Back Better” failed to pass with robust child care investment in 2021, many early care and education advocates saw it as the end of a long, winding road to provide a more universal system of child care in which families could access high quality care and educators were paid wages commensurate with K-12 teachers. But even as the federal landscape has shifted away from providing more support for the sector, states have continued to inn…