“While high-quality early care and education for children from birth to kindergarten entry is critical to child development and has the potential to generate significant economic returns in the long run, it has been financed in such a way that makes early education available only to a fraction of the families needing and desiring care, and does little to further develop the early care and education workforce.”

LaRue Allen, the Raymond and Rosalee Weiss Professor of Applied Psychology at New York Univerisity, “Financial structure of early childhood education requires overhaul to make it accessible and affordable for all families,” Phys.org, February 22, 2018

“Transforming the Financing of Early Education and Care,” a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine