Action Needed
- Offer state-supported full-day Kindergarten and inclusive pre-K across a mixed delivery system. Explore opportunities to expand public/private partnerships to increase access to quality and inclusive early learning from birth to age five.
- Recruit and retain a highly-qualified early childhood workforce, with a focus on wages and expansion of the Arizona Teachers Academy.
- Establish a long-term funding source to ensure that quality, inclusive early-learning opportunities can continue once federal COVID funding ends for Quality First programs (First Things First) and beyond.
- Expand resources and supports for family childcare to ensure children have quality early learning opportunities and family members have the opportunity to work or go to school.
- Expand and scale Inclusion Coaches under First Things First.