Child Care in California: Where Do We Go From Here?
California’s childcare system remains one of the most important opportunities to reduce poverty across low-income communities, increase educational equity for children, and provide living wage jobs to hundreds of thousands of low-income workers (most of whom are women of color) in the early care and education field.
Over the past several years, California has experienced a dynamic series of events - from the pressures of the pandemic to the creation and early-stage implementation of universal pre-k and transitional kindergarten - that have remade significant parts of the system and opened up timely opportunities for lasting change.
If the goal is to build a holistic mixed delivery system that ensures all low-income families with children 0-5 have accessible affordable choices for quality child care, and for all early care and education professionals to make living wages, where are we on that journey?
Join the LA Partnership for an important conversation, Child Care in California: Where Do We Go From Here? - to better understand the current landscape and learn where and how philanthropy can support efforts to achieve the goal of a holistic, just, and equitable childcare system.
