Prioritizing System Support for the ECE/EDU Education and Human Development Sector
Whereas, The California Governor’s Master Plan for Early Learning and Care: California for All Kids1, released on December 1, 2020, contained sweeping recommendations related to the broad expansion of childcare and expanded learning and the provision of Transitional Kindergarten (TK) services for all of California’s four-year-olds, resulting in significant impacts on early childhood education and education (ECE/EDU) courses and the pivotal role California community college programs hold in recruiting, preparing, graduating, transferring, and supporting over 85% of the ECE