Early Care & Education
Early Care and Education
- Remove child support enforcement from the Child Care Assistance Program.
- Sustain and expand the Child Care for Child Care Educators program.
- Pass the RI Early Educator Workforce Act to sustain and strengthen workforce development and compensation programs, including allocating $1M to continue the Child Care WAGE$ program.
- Pass the Child Care is Essential Act to help families access affordable child care by meeting or exceeding federal benchmarks.
- Establish prekindergarten implementation and expansion guidelines, including a 30% infant-toddler funding set aside.
- Sustain $1.1M in infant-toddler funding allocated from prekindergarten expansion in the early childhood categorical fund.
- Pass the Revenue for Rhode Islanders Act to restore $46M+ cut from the Child Care Assistance Program.
