Early Care and Education Consortium

The Early Care and Education Consortium is the unified voice for over 7,000 high-quality early learning programs across the country.

[Senator Jon Husted @SenJonHusted]

I met with the @ECEConsortium to discuss how we can make childcare more accessible and affordable for working families.

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Thank you @PreKCaucus for co-hosting an important briefing with ECEC and @NAEYC on the child care landscape & early education workforce! We appreciate your leadership in advancing child care investments & are excited to keep building our partnership through bipartisan solutions!

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Thank you, @RepBrianFitz, for your incredible leadership on this issue! We’re so grateful for your strong commitment to making child care more affordable through increased investments and modernized tax credits, and we're excited to keep building this partnership together!

[Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 @RepBrianFitz]

Parents cannot work if they cannot find care. Providers cannot expand access if they cannot keep classrooms staffed. And families cannot get ahead if child care remains one of the biggest costs in the household budget.

That is why child care must be treated as what it is: a family issue, a workforce issue, and an economic issue.

This morning, I joined my friends from @ECEConsortium, @NAEYC, and fellow Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Child Care Caucus to continue developing bipartisan solutions that lower costs, expand access, strengthen mixed-delivery care, support early educators, and modernize child care tax tools like DCAP, the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, and the employer-provided child care credit.

Across PA-1, we are working with families, providers, educators, and community partners to make sure the people closest to these challenges help shape solutions that lower costs, invest in our kids, and support the families raising them.

Thank you to ECEC and NAEYC—grateful for your partnership in this critical fight.

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Thank you @RepBonamici for your leadership and for all that you—and the Pre-K and Child Care Caucus—have done for child care! You are a champion for children and families, and we look forward to continuing our partnership.

[Suzanne Bonamici @RepBonamici]

Thank you to the Early Care & Education Consortium for meeting with the bipartisan Pre-K and Child Care Caucus to discuss the importance of access, affordability, quality, and workforce. As a caucus Co-Chair, I recognize that child care is infrastructure and that we need a mixed delivery system to meet the needs of families.

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Read more from Art Rolnick on the red herring in child care policy discourse. https://t.co/702RW2d6Lj

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

“When we focus on ownership structure in early care and education — whether a center is nonprofit, for‑profit, publicly traded, or backed by private equity — we divert attention from the real levers that determine quality:

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

adequate, sustained investment in well‑trained staff, low child‑staff ratios, evidence‑based curricula, and safe, stimulating environments—the elements of good care.”

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

@nhacademymn Their plans for expansion in a rural community in Wisconsin this summer. https://t.co/N92nS9b2On

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

We’re launching a spotlight series on our amazing providers delivering quality #childcare and #earlylearning for young kids every day all around the country!

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

@nhacademymn How they addressed a #childcare desert situation in #Dubuque #Iowa, and

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

For millions of American families, child care has become one of the defining affordability challenges of modern life. In communities across the country, the cost of care now rivals a mortgage payment or in-state college tuition. https://t.co/JTfTYQ4uKl

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

The Administration of Children and Families, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, will issue a combination of new rules and guidance to states in order to empower parents in their children’s day care options. https://t.co/PJ6CSE9okf

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Happy Provider Appreciation Day! Millions of children spend their most formative years in the care of dedicated professionals who show up every day with skill, love and a commitment that is rarely matched and far too rarely recognized. #ProviderAppreciationDay #ThankYouChildCare.

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Last night, the House passed the SEED Act, allowing early childhood educators to deduct out‑of‑pocket classroom expenses—just like K‑12 teachers already can. A long‑overdue fix! Thanks to @RepBrianFitz, @RepJimmyPanetta, @RepGoodlander & @RepDavidValadao for leading this effort.

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

Listen to the @CBIANews economic and #childcare experts in CT: “We want to make sure that families in Connecticut have options.” Lawmakers should oppose SB 266

[CBIA @CBIANews]

#Childcare is a workforce issue—when funding limits options, families lose choices and workers lose flexibility. Hear from a local provider on why access, reliability, and affordability matter. “Our goal is to support our local communities." #reimagineCT

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

About 14,000 additional low-income children could soon nab vouchers for free and reduced-cost child care under a $200 million proposal announced Tuesday by Gov. Mike Braun’s administration. https://t.co/6ZOWYFAeGM

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

In honor of National Month of the Military Child and National Month of the Military Family, KinderCare is offering military families a free day of daycare between now and May 31. https://t.co/pd97peVgjw

[Early Care and Education Consortium @ECEConsortium]

The economic realities of creating a new child care vision for downtown Mankato hit Candice Deal-Bartell hard as the Cultivate Mankato founder knew the end was near. But the emergence of regional child care company @nhacademymn brought some new leverage. https://t.co/KaZaGQqdKQ