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WALKER  \n6 Ways To Ensure Preschool Contributes to an Equitable  \nEarly Childhood System   \nBy Laura Dallas McSorley February 2021  \nWWW.AMERICANPROGRESS. ORG  \nContents  \n1 Introduction and summary  \n3 Background  \n5 Recommendations  \n5 Equitably invest in educators serving children  \n8 Leverage the Head Start infrastructure  \n8 Tie support to infant and toddler investments  \n10 Focus on equitable access and quality  \n11 Prioritize the child care workforce and provide equitable compensation  \n12 Ensure all programs are accountable to families and value family voice  \n13 Conclusion  \n14 About the author  \n14 Acknowledgements  \n15 Endnotes  \nIntroduction and summary  \nOn a typical day in Georgia, a 4-year-old enters a child care center, greets her teacher, writes her name on the sign-in board, and chooses to build a tower out of blocks alongside a few friends.1 The teacher observes the child’s actions and brings a nonfiction book over, encouraging the students to find a building that is similar to their own structure. This scene unfolds across the country in countless child care centers, homes, and preschools. In Georgia, more than 60 percent of 4-year-olds, including a high proportion of Black 4-year-olds, attend the free early education program in the year before kindergarten.2 But Georgia is an anomaly; nationally, just 34 percent of 4-year-olds and 6 percent of 3-year-olds can access public preschool.3  \nAs candidates, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a comprehensive early childhood agenda, including child care, preschool, supports for families beginning at their child’s birth, and improved compensation and working conditions for early educators and caregivers.4 Congressional champions from both parties are committed to expanding investment in solutions that support the nation’s youngest children and their parents’ participation in the workforce.5 As the Biden-Harris administration constructs a domestic agenda, there isan opportunity to create a world-class voluntary universal preschool program forchildren and families that addresses racial and other inequities.  \nCurrently, early childhood programs reflect the stratification of American society by race and class and contribute to the compounding impacts of systemic racism among communities of color, particularly Black, Latino, and Indigenous families. A rigorous focus on examining and addressing structural racism must be at the core of a modern American preschool plan. Young children flourish when supported in rich environments with peers and educators—from resolving how four children can share three magnifying glasses, to documenting what they observe about a hermit crab shell. Preschool, a high-quality early education experience for 3-and 4-year-old children in the year or two before kindergarten, can be a critical lever for promoting children’s school success and equitably investing in this coun-  \n1 Center for American Progress | 6 Ways To Ensure Preschool Contributes to an Equitable Early Childhood System  \ntry’s future. However, access to preschool is often determined by a family’s ability to pay or its residence in one of the handful of cities and states that offer widely available public preschool. Only 1 in 6 eligible children are receiving child care assistance, and without it, families face steep costs to access care and education.6  \nTo address these inequities, preschool must be part ofa continuum of support forchildren from birth to kindergarten, including child care and Head Start. Babies, infants, and preschoolers cared for outside their home most commonly access care in child care centers—a system that was already fragile pre-pandemic and that is now facing an existential crisis. This interconnected, underfunded support system for young children and working families can be strengthened by intentionally structuring supports for children from birth through age 5. However, if preschool is proposed or impleme","cbCaikTiAPBFVcID","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikTiAPBFVcID","pdf",311860,"English","# Introduction and summary\n# Background\n# Recommendations\n## Equitably invest in educators serving children\n## Leverage the Head Start infrastructure\n## Tie support to infant and toddler investments\n## Focus on equitable access and quality\n## Prioritize the child care workforce and provide equitable compensation\n## Ensure all programs are accountable to families and value family voice\n# Conclusion\n# About the author\n# Acknowledgements\n# Endnotes","[{\"question\":\"Why does the report treat preschool as part of a broader birth-to-age-5 system?\",\"answer\":\"Preschool can improve 3- and 4-year-olds’ outcomes, but it works best when paired with supportive care for babies and toddlers. 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