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Meeting with a Legislator or Other Local Leaders?
Here are some resources you can share:
- Child Care and Pre-k: Public Funding and Need
- Early Care and Education Landscape
- 2024 Pre-k Fact Sheet
- 2024 Pre-k Fact Sheets by county:
- 2025 Child Care Fact Sheets
- PA Voters Overwhelmingly Support Additional Investments in Early Care and Education
- Start Strong PA September 2024 Staffing Crisis Survey Results
- Fix Child Care fact poster
Trying Together and Early Learning PA Reports
- Solving the Child Care Teacher Shortage Through State Recruitment and Retention Investments (2025)
- Elevating the Early Childhood Workforce
- Building a Financially-Stable, High-Quality Child Care System for Pennsylvania’s Children and Families: Improving Subsidized Child Care Rate Setting
- The High Cost of Working in Early Childhood Education – A Workforce on the Brink of Collapse with Devastating Consequences for Children
- Getting Back to Business: The Employer’s Case for Non-Traditional Hour Child Care
- Policy Brief: Overview of Non-Traditional Hour Child Care
- A Model to Strengthen and Stabilize the Child Care System
- A Snapshot of the Rural Early Care and Education Landscape
- The Value and Cost of High-Quality Early Care and Education
Past Policy Reports
- Advance Developmentally Appropriate Practice: How Young Children Learn White Paper
- Developmentally Appropriate Practice (DAP): A Guide for Parents
- Advance Developmentally Appropriate Practice: How Young Children Learn Webinar
- End Early Childhood Suspensions and Expulsions White Paper
- Addressing Suspensions and Expulsions: A Guide for Families (2024)
- A Pathway to Reduce and Eliminate Early Childhood Suspensions and Expulsions
- How to Find, Choose, and Pay for High-Quality Child Care: A Guide for Families
- A Review of Pre-Kindergarten Expansion in U.S. Cities
- Invest in Quality: A Case for Paying Closer to What High-Quality Pre-K Costs
- The Case for High-Quality Infant and Toddler Child Care
- Kindergarten Transition White Paper (2024)
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