Photo: Alyssa Haywoode for Strategies for Children
After a turbulent budget season, the Massachusetts state budget for fiscal year 2021 is being finalized now. A six-member Conference Committee is meeting to reconcile funding differences between the House and Senate budgets.
These two budgets have allocated different amounts of funding for early education and care (EEC) line items.
More than $100 million is at stake for EEC programs.
In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, it’s crucial to maximize funding for early education and care by encouraging legislators to include the higher budget amounts for each EEC line item.
The budget will likely pass within a few days. Please take action now!
For more budget and advocacy information, contact Titus DosRemedios: tdosremedios@strategiesforchildren.org
Eye on Early Education is a blog of Strategies for Children, an organization that works to ensure that Massachusetts invests the resources needed for all children, from birth to age five, to access high-quality early education programs that prepare them for success in school and life. The blogger, 
eyeonearlyeducation.org 
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