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Public policies that support high-quality early learning programs lay the foundation for childrens' academic success, improve our business climate and promote broad-based economic opportunity.
Children with access to high-quality early learning and care (from birth to five years of age) do better in school, are more likely to graduate from high school and go on to college, and are less likely to commit crime.
Experience and evidence both highlight the importance of these early years to for a child’s emotional, social and cognitive development. The quality of these early experiences is directly related to future social and academic success.
Recent Publications and News Highlights
First Class in Learning – First Class in Life: How Washington’s Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder Delivers First-Class Care
01.06.2010
| A suspension of the Wage Ladder would
jeopardize the professional and educational
progress of over 800 early learning teachers
across the state. These early learning
teachers will lose critical supports necessary
to sustain their participation in the
early care and education field – and the children in their care will
suffer the consequences.
Paving the Pathways to Quality
03.17.2009 | Creating a professional development system for early learning providers that offers children quality care and a strong foundation for learning.
Policy Focus
Helping great teachers afford their jobs
The Early Childhood Education Career and Wage Ladder is a successful public-private partnership between the state and child care centers. It gives teachers small wage increases for getting more education, increasing responsibility and staying in the field.
Giving our youngest the best and brightest
We can't deliver high-quality care to our children without a strong professional development system for early childhood educators.
Our childcare market is broken - here's how to fix it
There is already a template for success in the child care market that is ready to be replicated - but where's the political will to do it?
Take Action
Help deliver first-class care to Washington's children
Despite its proven success, just 3% of child care centers participate in the Wage Ladder.
You can help change that. (Here's why you should.
Profile
Dawn loved working in early childhood education - but she couldn't afford it.
Success Story
In 1998, EOI set out with labor leaders, childcare center providers and parents to improve pay and training for teachers, keeping high-quality staff on the job.
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