The Massachusetts Legislature is poised to take an exciting step forward.
The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Education has just released a bill, An Act to expand access to high quality, affordable early education and care.
It’s an investment in young children and the early education workforce that promises to make the state stronger as these children grow.
The bill draws heavily on the recommendations of the Early Education and Care Economic Review Commission, which released a report in March. The bill also includes many of the policies advocated for by the Common Start Coalition in a bill it worked to file in 2021.
When it’s fully implemented, this legislation “will be transformative in expanding access to high quality, sustainable, and affordable early education and care for young children and families in Massachusetts,” according to a statement released by the co-chairs of the Joint Committee on Education Representative Alice H. Peisch (D-Wellesley) and Senator Jason M. Lewis (D-Winchester).
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