Tell Congress to support once-in-a-generation investments in child care and early learning.
The U.S. Congress holds the power to pass an incredible $400 billion investment into America’ s struggling child care and early education sector right now that is estimated to deliver nearly $2 billion to Kentucky to invest in its children! This presents Kentuckians with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide care and early learning opportunities to unprecedented numbers of Kentucky children and support their working moms and dads.
The investment will:
Increase access to affordable, high-quality child care
This investment will limit child care costs for families to no more than 7% of income for families earning up to 250% of state median income. It enables states to expand child care access to about 20 million children across the U.S. Parents must be working, seeking work, in training or taking care of a serious health issue in order to participate. This is a long-term program, with funding for six years.
Provide universal preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds in a mixed delivery system
This investment will increase access to free high-quality preschool for more than 6 million children across the U.S. This is a long-term program, with funding for six years. Preschool services will be delivered using a mixed delivery model that includes private child care small businesses, Head Start, and already existing public preschools.
A mixed delivery model ensures that more 3- and 4-year-olds gain access to high-quality preschool education and ensures that already existing child care and other early education centers remain economically viable. The use of a mixed delivery model is a win-win-win for providers, children, and local communities.
Tell members of Congress to support this historic investment.
Congress holds the power to remove barriers for working moms and dads to contribute more to the workforce and for their children to receive a strong start in their education. A child’s participation in high-quality early learning programs results in higher rates of proficiency in reading and mathematics by the third grade. And children who participate in high-quality preschool programs are 40% less likely to drop out of school and 50% less likely to be placed in special education.
Kentuckians must not let this once-in-a-generation investment in child care and early education be sidelined by our leaders in Washington. We must invest in increased access to child care and early education, the workforce behind the workforce, to ensure that more families enter, remain in, and fully contribute to Kentucky’s economy.
Tell Congress to support once-in-a-generation investments in child care and early learning.
The U.S. Congress holds the power to pass an incredible $400 billion investment into America’ s struggling child care and early education sector right now that is estimated to deliver nearly $2 billion to Kentucky to invest in its children! This presents Kentuckians with a once-in-a-generation opportunity to provide care and early learning opportunities to unprecedented numbers of Kentucky children and support their working moms and dads.
The investment will:
Increase access to affordable, high-quality child care
This investment will limit child care costs for families to no more than 7% of income for families earning up to 250% of state median income. It enables states to expand child care access to about 20 million children across the U.S. Parents must be working, seeking work, in training or taking care of a serious health issue in order to participate. This is a long-term program, with funding for six years.
Provide universal preschool for all 3- and 4-year-olds in a mixed delivery system
This investment will increase access to free high-quality preschool for more than 6 million children across the U.S. This is a long-term program, with funding for six years. Preschool services will be delivered using a mixed delivery model that includes private child care small businesses, Head Start, and already existing public preschools.
A mixed delivery model ensures that more 3- and 4-year-olds gain access to high-quality preschool education and ensures that already existing child care and other early education centers remain economically viable. The use of a mixed delivery model is a win-win-win for providers, children, and local communities.
Tell members of Congress to support this historic investment.
Congress holds the power to remove barriers for working moms and dads to contribute more to the workforce and for their children to receive a strong start in their education. A child’s participation in high-quality early learning programs results in higher rates of proficiency in reading and mathematics by the third grade. And children who participate in high-quality preschool programs are 40% less likely to drop out of school and 50% less likely to be placed in special education.
Kentuckians must not let this once-in-a-generation investment in child care and early education be sidelined by our leaders in Washington. We must invest in increased access to child care and early education, the workforce behind the workforce, to ensure that more families enter, remain in, and fully contribute to Kentucky’s economy.