The Early Childhood Education Workforce: Vital and in Distress

• Early childhood education should be regarded as a professional sector in both perception and reality in terms of pay, leadership and connection to resources
• Educators need to feel valued in pay, how they are seen in our communities and access to pathways for a career
• Federal investments provide an opportunity to innovate across the entire system and transform the sector so it works better for providers, workers and parents, because there is no single solution

Hosted by Emilie Amundson (Wisconsin Department of Children and Families), Tanya Johnson (Wisconsin Early Childhood Association) & Lisa Coombs-Gerou (YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee)

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