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.