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Title: Breaking the silence on early child care and education costs

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Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: California’s child early care and education (ECE) system is underfunded, and California policymakers have not been willing to acknowledge the true cost of creating a comprehensive ECE system. Proposals for ECE reform have focused primarily on improving access and affordability for families but have ignored the elephant in the room: Early care and education is substantially “funded” through low teacher pay and inadequate supports for ECE teachers. In addition to being a serious injustice, lack of adequate financial and professional supports for ECE teachers compromises the consistency and quality of care children receive.

Url: https://cscce.berkeley.edu/files/2019/07/Break-the-Silence-on-Early-Child-Care-and-Education-Costs.pdf

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Authors: Gould, Elise; Whitebook, Marcy; Mokhiber, Zane; Austin, Lea, J.E.

Publisher: University of California Berkeley, Economic Policy Institute

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Fertility and Mortality, Other, Poverty and Welfare

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